Time and overly enthusiastic cleaning had dealt enough damage to Piero Della Francesca’s masterful nativity painting, that when the National Gallery acquired it in 1874, the U.K. Parliament inquired ...

A still-life painting by French artist Anne Vallayer-Coster was missing for nearly 200 years. It showed up last year and was bought by the National Gallery for nearly $3 million. "Still Life with ...

London’s National Gallery is finally unveiling the U.K.’s only Parmigianino altarpiece on the occasion of the institution’s 200th anniversary. The early Mannerist master’s towering The Madonna and ...

Now, when you think of Spain, you will think of bad art restorations. Spain has found itself in the center of yet another story about an amateur art restorer being hired to clean up a priceless piece ...

The Open University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Earlier this year I found myself stood among a sea of swaying ox-eye daises in a floodplain meadow on the Attingham ...

Watching paint dry is suddenly en vogue. Paris’s Musée d’Orsay’s surprise hit this season is a look at the ongoing restoration of Gustave Courbet’s “Un Enterrement à Ornans” (A Burial at Ornans). It ...

The National Gallery of Art will officially begin welcoming the public once more on Friday, with plans to return to normal ...