The Sacred and Profane in Renaissance Venice

Getting beneath the surface of Old Master paintings in the studio of Karen Thomas.

‘295’ and other vignettes of Aso O. Tavitian (1940-2020) recollected by David Bull.

Friedrich’s moonlit seascape and other lessons of the sea observed in Hamburg by Jessi Jezewska Stevens.

Theatermaker Elfie Tromp takes us on a wondrous excursion into the new Boijmans Depot.

Keeping up the cultural agenda while we await the 35th edition of TEFAF.

The conceptual artist’s gravity-defying aerobes inspired Lizzie Marx to investigate their connections with the past.

In the wake of Fondation Beyeler’s centennial Goya exhibition, Olivier Berggruen reflects on the ambiguity of the artist’s work.

Our end-of-the-year market report digs deeper into the numbers behind some top selling Old Master paintings in 2021, as well as discoveries and museum acquisitions.

Wanwan Lei, co-founder of M_WOODS museum in Beijing reconnects with us to chat about their ongoing exhibition of Old Master drawings presented by the British Museum.

Curator Mitchell Merling examines prudery through American private collecting of four major erotic paintings that ended up as centerpieces of American museums.

Observations from ‘The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570’, an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York between 26 June–11 Oct 2021.

Sparked by memories of her visits to Le Marche in central Italy, V&A curator Emily Knight explores the Victorian fascination with Italian Renaissance paintings manifested in the museum’s collection.

How is the Old Masters market doing more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic? Our gallery associate Oliver Rordorf presents some trends observed in the marketplace between March 2020 and July 2021.

Scholar of black fashion and visual culture Jonathan M. Square responds to an unusual fragment of a painting by Annibale Carracci.

Poet Richie Hofmann dedicates his new poem, Jupiter, to a painting by Abraham Janssens.

An original study on the market for anonymous 15th and 16th century Flemish paintings, sold between 1946-2015.