A 16th-century painting stolen from an English manor house and later recovered at a bus stop has sold for an astonishing $22.3 million. “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” is an early work by the ...

A woman in Norfolk, England, has at last decided to return a 16th-century painting that was stolen more than 50 years ago. The Madonna and Child painting disappeared from Italy’s Civic Museum of ...

A ring of human skulls originally circled 16th-century magician John Dee in a painting by the English artist Henry Gillard Glindoni. Henry Gillard Glindoni, “John Dee performing an experiment before ...

A recently discovered painting by the 16th-century artist Lavinia Fontana being offered at a Sotheby’s Old Master sale on Thursday is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist painted while she was ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales had an eye for the dramatic. In one lamentation scene, Jesus slumps against his mother’s arm, his limp corpse gray and speckled with blood.

She’s the artful dodger. The ex-wife of a late British baron refuses to hand over a 16th-century painting that was stolen from an Italian museum more than 50 years ago — even though she “never really ...

LONDON — A 16th-century painting stolen more than 50 years ago has been found - and is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian museum. “Madonna and Child” ...

Indian art is ending the year on a record high. A tiny Indian painting from the 16th century measuring 29.8 cm in height and 18.6 cm in width has been sold for a mind-boggling 13.6 million dollars ...

A 16th-century painting by the father of the Antwerp school, Quentin Metsys, will be sold in July at Christie’s in London. The Madonna of Cherries is estimated to achieve at least £8 million (US$10.2 ...

If you thought Venice couldn’t possibly have any more cultural riches to offer, think again. The Floating City has yielded the discovery of a rare 16th-century mural, found on the side of an apartment ...