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Published on 24/06/2025 – 9:09 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A tourist attempting to capture a picture of himself in front of an 18th-century portrait at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence tripped and left …

A careless tourist has sparked fury in Italy after he damaged a priceless 18th century painting while trying to take a selfie. The unnamed culprit had been enjoying a visit …

ADVERTISEMENT Lost for over 150 years, one of JMW Turner’s earliest oil paintings is about to go on display at London’s Sotheby’s before being auctioned.  Titled ‘The Rising Squall, Hot …

ADVERTISEMENT A 15-year-old autistic Nigerian has set the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest art canvas to raise awareness for autism. Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke’s painting, which features a multi-coloured ribbon …

ADVERTISEMENT A rare painting by the English writer Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) has been purchased for £32,000 (€37,034) by the Brontë Parsonage Museum at auction. The piece was offered …

Italian art lovers want the return of a stolen Renaissance painting but its English owner is refusing. ADVERTISEMENT In 1973, ‘Madonna and Child’ by Antonio Solario was stolen. The 16th …

A 17th-century Brueghel painting, stolen from Poland’s Gdańsk Museum in 1974, has been recovered in the Netherlands with the help of a detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art …

A mystery woman, long concealed beneath a work from Picasso’s early Blue Period, has been uncovered by researchers, shedding new light on the artist’s creative process. ADVERTISEMENT A captivating secret …

Officers opened fire after the man brandished a gun that was later found to be fake French police shot and seriously wounded a man who pointed a fake gun at …

A painting bought for less than $50 at a Minnesota yard sale is actually an undiscovered $15 million Van Gogh masterpiece, experts believe. The piece features a fisherman smoking his pipe …