So rich is Istanbul in historic buildings of every stripe, especially Byzantine churches and colonnaded cisterns, Ottoman ...

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

There can be no doubt that such a museum needs maintenance ... Read more Subscribers only Louvre president: 'If the public wants to take selfies with a work of art, we have to accept it' Other ...

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C2RMF (Center And Search Restoration Musées De France) have published an article on the recent restoration of Van Dyck's Charles I à la chasse. The article features a brief history of the various ...

The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's origina ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in ...

“Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11. Thank you for subscribing and supporting our journalism. If you prefer to read in ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.