“The X-ray had actually been taken years before, and it was just sitting in the file,” exhibition co-curator Kimberly A. Jones of the National Gallery told artnet News, noting that it was co-curator ...

Sandro Botticelli’s rediscovered and arresting “Man of Sorrows,” due to be auctioned at Sotheby’s on January 27 – with a guarantee of $40 million – has yet to be studied extensively, as it has been in ...

23 3/8 by 23 3/4 in. (alt: 59.3 by 60.3 cm (excluding the original frame)) (note: 28 1/4 by 28 3/4 in. 71.5 by 73 cm (with the original frame)) ...

PAINTING IN OIL (ORIGINAL). Composition by girls under fifteen years.--First premium of diploma and $25 to Miss Sarah Lackland on a delightful landscape, with animals in the foreground; second, of $10 ...

PAINTING IN OIL (ORIGINAL). Composition by boy under fifteen years.--Premium of diploma and $25 to Herman Rascher, of St. Louis.--A worthy effort, giving indication of precocious genius. [Pp. 69-70.] ...