art history
Shopper bought a vase for $3.99 at a thrift store -- it turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact
Anna Lee Dozier bought a vase for $3.99 at a Maryland thrift shop, never realizing she had just picked up the bargain of a lifetime -- and a piece of...
Scientists uncover new secrets about da Vinci's mysterious masterpiece
Scientists have discovered a new secret about how Leonardo da Vinci painted his enigmatic masterpiece, “The Mona Lisa."
Antiques dealer bought priceless 2,000-year-old Roman bust at thrift store for $35
Laura Young found the 52-pound Roman bust at the thrift store in her hometown in 2018 and figured it was worth such a modest investment.
The greatest art heist you've never heard of revealed in 'The Duke'
"The Duke" is a true story about one of the world's most notorious and unlikely art thefts.
Degas' 'Russian dancers' is renamed 'Ukrainian dancers' by UK's National Gallery
"It is almost certain that these visiting dancers, and those drawn by Degas, were Ukrainian, rather than Russian," the gallery said of the artwork.
Stonehenge's stone circle of megaliths to receive major facelift
The work at Stonehenge, one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments whose stones date back some 4,500 years, will deal with problems caused by erosion and fix previous repairs which were uncovered...
Lost Leonardo da Vinci painting: Extraordinary or 'made up piece of junk'?
Is it real or a fraud? New documentary “The Lost Leonardo,” takes a look at the Salvator Mundi painting and Robert Simon's quest to find out about its authenticity as...
Barbarians at Yale: PC idiocy kills classic art history class
The intro art-history course at Yale University is the envy of the world. The students who qualify for this costly privilege, some of whom go on to run the nation’s...
Experts say Van Gogh self-portrait was painted while he was psychotic
His face is looking back from a three-quarter turn, as if giving a side-eye to the audience.
Artwork found in elderly French woman's kitchen sells for $26M
An elderly French woman had no idea that a small painting in her kitchen was the work of a famed 13th-century Italian artist -- but is now set to cash...
Heirs of Holocaust victim sue Lehman Foundation to recoup million-dollar artwork
The heirs of a Jewish man who died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the current Czech Republic are demanding the return of his multimillion-dollar painting by Egon Schiele, which...
Recently found Lewis Chessman piece could fetch $1M at auction
This long-lost chess piece will cost you a pretty check, mate. A missing piece from the medieval Lewis Chessmen set was bought for $7.50 in Scotland in 1964 — and...
Mona Lisa probably had an underactive thyroid
Mona Lisa's mysterious smile has baffled the world for centuries, but a medical professor thinks he may have cracked the key behind it. Experts now think the smirk was caused...
Art experts claim to have found Leonardo da Vinci’s earliest painting
Experts in Italy say they have found the earliest surviving work by Leonardo da Vinci. The small glazed terracotta tile, described as a self-portrait of the artist as the Archangel...
China urges auction boycott for artifact seized by British soldier
BEIJING - China on Tuesday condemned the British auction of a rare bronze water vessel seized by a British soldier from Beijing’s ransacked Imperial Gardens in the 19th Century, calling...
Long-lost Monet found in Louvre storage
A long-lost painting by French Impressionist master Claude Monet was recently discovered rolled up in a corner of a storage facility at the Louvre Museum in Paris, officials said. The...
Neanderthals may have been Europe's first great artists
LONDON — The world’s oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of cave...
300-year-old note found inside butt of Jesus statue
Restorers of an 18th-century statue of Jesus Christ in Spain have found a handwritten note hidden up his bum. The message, written carefully in calligraphy and dating back to 1777,...
America's longest painting has been restored and needs a home
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - A museum has restored the longest painting in North America so it can share the story of American whaling with the public. The quarter-mile-long panorama toured...
Trump's 'Renoir' painting is a fake: museum
President Trump insists he owns a real Renoir painting — but a Chicago museum says the version he has isn't the real deal. The Art Institute of Chicago said it...