Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

ROME — Italy’s art squad police said Tuesday they have thwarted the potential illegal sale by a Vienna auction house of a 17th-century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, a celebrated Baroque artist.

The portrait, painted in around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban VIII.

The painting by Artemisia Gentileschi was intercepted by Italian police. (photo via Carabinieri TPC) Italian police say they stopped the Viennese auction house Dorotheum from selling an oil painting ...

Researchers think old masters like Sandro Botticelli, who painted Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, may have mixed egg into their oil paints to alter certain qualities. Fine Art Images / Heritage ...

Works newly attributed to the Renaissance artist had exciting stories behind them. But experts say they are unlikely to be by his hand.

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 463 (Sale info: To Be Auctioned). A beautiful picture. [P. 4; indicated as either an "original" or a copy "of great merit."] Catalogue of the Extensive and ...