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Caravaggio masterpiece painted in Naples rather than Sicily, researchers suggest

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New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artists famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds

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Facing accusations of hiding Nazi loot, Bavaria pledges more research and greater transparency

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The states culture minister has responded to an outcry after a newspaper reported that the Bavarian State Painting Collections keeps an unpublished internal list of 200 Nazi-looted works in its possession

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Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew

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His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October

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A canny couple: Amsterdam’s former mayor and his wife identified as sitters in Frans Hals portraits

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Fresh research has revealed how the prestigious pair seized the moment to ensure their likeness was painted by the great Dutch artist

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‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris

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More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”

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Conservation of Tintoretto painting in UK reveals ‘layer of history hiding under the surface’

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Research on Wise and Foolish Virgins, which is going back on display at the National Trusts Upton House in Warwickshire, has revealed alterations made by the Venetian artist and others over time

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The Week in Art podcast | The Mona Lisa’s endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; and New Objectivity

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We speak to the Leonardo da Vinci scholar, Martin Kemp, about the famous painting's potential move and the latest research on its background, to the US artist about her show at Serpentine North and to the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna about Christian Schad’s 'Self-Portrait with Model' (1927)

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