Old Masters specialist Jonquil O’Reilly explains how one dressed to impress in the 1500s, with the aid of portraits by Cranach and Mor offered in New York on 19 April
Christie’s to auction an important and long-lost portrait work by Lucas Cranach the Elder, recently returned to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann
From the dirt beneath its fingernails to its wine-flushed cheeks, the vivid details of this half-man half-goat are quintessential Rubens, says specialist John Hawley
Explore the outstanding works offered in Christie’s New York’s Classic Week, now on view in our galleries at Rockefeller Center
Over the course of 53 years the artist revisited this scene from antiquity — offered in New York on 18 April — in over 100 drawings and three paintings
Christie’s specialist John Hawley explains why the painter of a version of The Standard Bearer offered on 19 April was probably one of these two men
As a collection of Hokusai’s ukiyo-e prints appears in our Japanese and Korean Art sale on April 18, we bring his famous visions of 19th-century Japan to life
The La Salle University artworks to be sold at Christie’s span Old Master works to modern British art. Four of our specialists select their favourites
Venice resident Bianca Arrivabene, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s in Italy, on why this painting brought back happy memories for David Rockefeller
With an ad campaign that is a ‘love letter’ to Old Masters, the fashion house is tapping into a trend evident across many areas of contemporary culture
As an exceptional Turner watercolour comes to auction on 30 January, art critic Alastair Sooke and specialist Harriet Drummond explore the Turner Bequest
This 19th-century portrait was innovative for its time and caught Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s eye for the avant-garde, as specialist Furio Rinaldi explains
Seven expert tips on collecting, whether you seek affordable works on paper or a museum-quality masterpiece
We chart the highs and lows in the career of a genius — a man who, during his controversial lifetime, was as much denounced as he was lauded
Specialist Furio Rinaldi looks at works by Italian artists across three centuries, all offered in Old Master & British Drawings on 30 January
Scholar, feminist and collector Ann Sutherland Harris on what she looks for in a drawing and some of the discoveries and reattributions that she has made
Saint Francis and Brother Leo in Meditation becomes the second highest price paid for a work by El Greco at auction in £54.1 million sales series
Why ‘grubby’ paintings are the best, fluctuating humidity is a painting’s worst enemy — and a coffee stain can be worth keeping (if it was made by Picasso)
Jussi Pylkkänen, Christie’s Global President, on the sale that broke all records and generated headlines around the world
How the Dutch Master’s vision of himself reflected his fortunes through the years — illustrated with works offered in London on 14 December
The only known sketch in oil outlining the final composition for Delacroix’s greatest masterpiece sells for £3.1 million
Explore our display of works by El Greco, Rembrandt, Van Ruisdael, Brueghel the Younger and many more
Art historian Jacky Klein discusses the devotional power of the 16th-century masterpiece, offered during Classic Week
Isabelle d’Amécourt describes the thrill of identifying a lost portrait bust by the great Italian sculptor, depicting Joachim Murat, King of Naples
From record-breakers to national treasures, a selection of landscape-changing works offered in Christie’s salerooms across the past 251 years
The rediscovered masterpiece sells for $450,312,500 — a new world auction record for any work of art — at Christie’s in New York
As the world looks on, the last da Vinci looks back. Watch the film
Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi — one of fewer than 20 extant paintings accepted as from the artist’s own hand
The history of Leonardo da Vinci’s great masterpiece — offered at Christie’s on 13 November, and the story of its rediscovery, restoration and authentication
A look at bronze highlights from Christie's autumn season, spanning the breadth of human history