Bendor again with news of another talk for my book tour. This time we're at Hardwick Hall, and - how about this! - in the amazing High Great Chamber, one of Bess of Hardwick's grandest rooms and most ...

The Prado in Madrid have announced a new digital library platform. The website contains 11,500 publications (including 5,600 magazines and 6,000 books) which are all freely accessible. As to be ...

Exciting news from Italy that a new catalogue raisonné dedicated to Carlo Maratta has been published this month. The two-volume edition penned by Stella Rudolph and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò ...

The city of Winterthur in Switzerland have sent Anton Graff's Self-Portrait at the Age of 72 back to Poland after a provenance probe. The painting had been hanging in a museum in Wrocław in 1937 but ...

Hi everyone, here's a trailer for The Invention of British Art, which is out next week (October 10th). It's available for pre-order now, through all the usual places (and ideally, your local bookshop!

More news from Italy that Girolamo Genga's The Cesena Altarpiece has been restored after a three-year conservation project. Painted between 1513 and 1518, the project was undertaken onsite at the ...

The French auction house Pousse-Cornet will be offering a monumental still life by Alexandre-François Desportes in a few days' time. The painting, which cataloguing suggests hasn't been offered for ...

The Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid have announced a new exhibition on Marcel Proust and the Arts for 2025 (spotted via. @martevelazquez). The show will examine the artistic stimulus for Proust's work, ...

Artnet have shared news of an early rediscovered Poussin which is coming up for sale at the French auction house Ader later in November. Vénus Épiée par Deux Satyres, which was researched with the ...

The Yale Center for British Art's curator Edward Town has shared a fascinating piece of research on his Instagram account. The project relates to the reidentification of a household servant which ...

The National Trust will be releasing a new book on Women Artists & Designers in February 2025. Here's the blurb (according to Amazon): From the magnificent gardens created by Vita Sackville-West at ...

Bonhams London's autumn Old Master Paintings sale has been published online with bidding for lots closing on 2nd October 2024. As usual, I won't spoil the fun by pointing out what may or may not be ...