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  • Returned to its rightful owners after nearly 80 years

    Christie’s to auction an important and long-lost portrait work by Lucas Cranach the Elder, recently returned to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann

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  • 5 minutes with... Rubens’ A Satyr Holding a Basket of Grapes and Quinces with a Nymph

    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

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  • 8 things to know about İznik pottery

    With their bold colours and strong lines, these wares have been collectable since the early days of production in the 15th century, says our specialist Sara Plumbly 

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  • 10 Old Masters that changed the art market

    From record-breakers to national treasures, a selection of landscape-changing works offered in Christie’s salerooms across the past 251 years

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  • 5 minutes with… An early al-Tusi astronomical manuscript

    Islamic art specialist Romain Pingannaud on a 13th-century copy of a key compendium on astronomy and mathemetics

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  • From collar to codpiece: power dressing in the 16th century

    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