Bendor again with news of another talk for my book tour. This time we're at Hardwick Hall, and - how about this! - in the amazing High Great Chamber, one of Bess of Hardwick's grandest rooms and most ...

Exciting news from Italy that a new catalogue raisonné dedicated to Carlo Maratta has been published this month. The two-volume edition penned by Stella Rudolph and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò ...

The Prado in Madrid have announced a new digital library platform. The website contains 11,500 publications (including 5,600 magazines and 6,000 books) which are all freely accessible. As to be ...

The city of Winterthur in Switzerland have sent Anton Graff's Self-Portrait at the Age of 72 back to Poland after a provenance probe. The painting had been hanging in a museum in Wrocław in 1937 but ...

Hi everyone, here's a trailer for The Invention of British Art, which is out next week (October 10th). It's available for pre-order now, through all the usual places (and ideally, your local bookshop!

The Petit Palais in Paris will be opening a new exhibition next month dedicated to Sweden's foremost painter of animals, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939). According to the museum's website: Less known than ...

I published a short blog over the weekend regarding an accidental discovery I made of a missing Portrait of Henry VIII. Having spotted it in the background of a photograph posted on 'X' / Twitter, I ...

Welcome to Art History News. It began in 2011 by Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, an art historian, writer, and broadcaster. The aim is to provide a useful source for art history related news stories, such as ...

The French auction house Pousse-Cornet will be offering a monumental still life by Alexandre-François Desportes in a few days' time. The painting, which cataloguing suggests hasn't been offered for ...