As sculpture soared to new heights in Renaissance Italy, northern Europe was having a creative surge of its own
Andrew Graham-Dixon offers his shortlist for an imaginary exhibition of favourite paintings inspired by love and marriage
The extraordinary rise — and fall — of the printmaker whose engravings helped spread High Renaissance taste across Europe
Author Jennifer Higgie on pioneering female artists whose depictions of themselves helped secure their place in history
As 14 works on paper by Fragonard come to Christie’s, specialist Stijn Alsteens details the quality and versatility of Fragonard’s draughtsmanship
Still owned by the descendants of the sitter, this depiction of Voltaire’s publisher is a sublime example of why Liotard was sought after by princes, popes and kings
Specialist Donald Johnston admires the model for a magnificent statue still on display high above the altar of the church of Santi Michele e Gaetano
A 360-degree view of our first group of Classic Week sales
A series of guides to some of the most important artists we offer at auction
A 360-degree view of our second group of Classic Week sales
Specialist Clementine Sinclair on a banquet scene — closely related to one held by the Louvre — that has spent two centuries in a private collection
How did Renaissance artists Taddeo Zuccaro and Bartolomeo Passarotti come to make two drawings on either side of the same sheet?
As the literary world anticipates the 200th anniversary of the poet’s death, Christie’s offers a rare portrait as well as one of nine known death masks
A 360-degree view of Classic Week, our upcoming series of four auctions in Paris showcasing rare furniture, works of arts and paintings
A 360-degree view of highlights from our upcoming Classic Week auction series
From figurines and plates to vases and tea and coffee services, plus designers spanning Danko to Komashka
How a Royal Navy ship came to provide the timber for a famous White House desk — and to inspire an atmospheric painting
In the late 1970s the handsome New York stockbroker and connoisseur retreated into the Appalachian Mountains. His collection is now being offered in New York
An affectionate portrait by a rising star of 1:54 heads up a gallery of works by artists who have been inspired by their loved ones
The distinguished Harvard economist Martin Feldstein amassed an exemplary collection of 17th-century Dutch art
The artist’s portraits of ‘dangerously independent women’ raised eyebrows in Belle Epoque Europe. Now his enigmatic works are in demand once more
A 360-degree view of exceptional pieces on offer this October in Classic Week New York
Goya’s work not only chronicled his conflict-ravaged times, but saw him enshrined as both the last of the Old Masters and the father of modern art
A 360-degree view of our online sale, Discovering Old Masters: The Legacy of Piero Corsini
The New York gallery owner had an enviable reputation for making rediscoveries. A sale of Old Master paintings from his collection is offered online
A mahogany table gifted by Tsar Alexander I is a highlight of an innovative online collaboration with Paris’s leading art and antiques fair
The Smith College Museum of Art curator Danielle Carrabino on acquiring a masterful drawing by Elisabetta Sirani
Alastair Smart pieces together the clues behind this ‘wonderfully spontaneous’ portrait dating to Rubens’ early travelling years — offered on 29 July in London
Specialist Milo Dickinson reveals the extraordinary tale of a lost Renaissance bronze found in a $15 box of bric-à-brac in South Africa
Three more intriguing ink drawings from the artist’s ‘last and greatest work’, illustrating the life of the hook-nosed clown, come to auction in London