How Kraków’s royal tapestries returned to their rightful home
These great tapestries have a turbulent history that has seen them held by Russia and in Canada – but now they’re back in the rooms where they first hung
‘An important work by Titian has been hiding in plain sight’
A lost portrait of the 16th-century writer Pietro Aretino may have been at the Kunstmuseum Basel for the last hundred years
Canes, corsets and peacock feathers – ‘Boldini and Fashion’ reviewed
The Ferrarese painter spent his career capturing the whims of fashion – but the results are far from superficial
‘Few painters in Renaissance Italy used gold to such dazzling effect’
Four reliquaries by Fra Angelico have been reunited for the first time since the 19th century
Fra Angelico in Boston, Scarpa’s glass, and Tintoretto at 500
The chief curator of the Frick Collection picks out his highlights for the year ahead
Cataloguing the Ashmolean’s baroque paintings is no mean feat
The Oxford museum’s lavish new publication is a triumph of scholarship
D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans
Is D.H. Lawrence’s account of the archaeological sites of Etruria still relevant today?
Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s fraught but fertile friendship
An ambitious exhibition at the National Gallery traces the productive overlaps between these two Renaissance masters
Guercino, Giovanni da Rimini and Murillo
There are some excellent in-focus exhibitions opening around the world in 2017, including a chance to see Guercino’s frescoes up-close, and a revealing look at the school of Rimini
Della Robbia’s glazed terracotta changed Tuscan art
This superb exhibition makes us look at terra invetriata – a prodigious combination of earth, glass, and fire – through the eyes of 15th-century Tuscans
Borrowing a baroque masterpiece
Xavier F. Salomon explains why he is so keen to show one of Guido Cagnacci’s most important paintings at the Frick
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Xavier Salomon’s highlights include Old Masters in Italy, the Le Nain brothers in the US, and a celebration of Hieronymus Bosch in Madrid
First Look: ‘Goya and the Altamira Family’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
‘Goya and the Altamira Family’ reunites five family portraits by Goya and his collaborator Agustín Esteve
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A masterpiece of Roman design, rediscovered in Nicaragua
Long thought lost by scholars, a spectacular silver gilt monstrance by Luigi Valadier has now been tracked down to a Central American basilica