The portrait is a centrepiece of Kanwal’s work, capturing the moment when the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), then just four years old, was formally enthroned in Lhasa, Tibet, on 22 February 1940.

Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano Filipe around the year 1445, spent the majority of his life living and working in Florence. He was very well known and celebrated during his lifetime and ...

Jean-Pierre Isbouts - one of National Geographic’s best-selling authors- has been studying and following Leonardo da Vinci’s paper trail for years. He’s written about the Italian’s career and legacy, ...

American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein shook up the art world with his comic-strip inspired paintings and his bold reproductions of cartoon characters. He took images from popular culture, and ...

Pi Li, the former head of art at Hong Kong's Tai Kwun, revealed that he is the founding director and first employee of Rong Museum, a cultural institution with around 4,500 square metres in total ...

The film Mona Lisa Smile was directed by Mike Newell and written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. The cast stars Julia Roberts in the lead role, but also Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie ...

That is the ruling of the court in The Hague. The heirs wanted the masterpieces back because, in their view, the museum exhibits the valuable paintings too infrequently. Bredius (1855-1946) was ...

The Drents Museum is deeply shocked by the events of last night in the museum. In its 170-year existence, such a major incident has never occurred. "This causes us great sadness towards our colleagues ...

The restitution is the result of intensive provenance research and "another important step in coming to terms with Nazi looted art." According to documents, after the National Socialists seized power ...

The statue, believed to have been recovered from the Adriatic Sea in 1964, has long been at the center of a legal and cultural battle between Italy and the Getty Trust, with Italy demanding its return ...

The 1954 Hague Convention and its supplementary provisions obligate nations to protect cultural property in the event of armed conflict, Dabirinejad underlined. The convention, established after World ...

The work, which was offered as part of The Mona Lisa of Pop: The Duffy Archive, which ran from 22 October – 5 November on bonhams.com, had an estimate of £250,000-300,000. All coming to auction for ...