Think 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' is the tops? Think again. Here, we offer an entirely opinionated ranking of the best works ...

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I want to give my children works of art made by my grandfather, but they need to be cleaned first. My grandfather was a heavy ...

While teaching art at a local university ... they need to be rediscovered not only in paintings or musty old feudal ...

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Is it a genuine Old Master or just an old paint ... Beware chromolithographs masquerading as oil paintings. The chromolithograph process made art available to the middle class in the 19th century.

Sara Drew: My name is Sara Drew, and I work at Center Art Studio in New York ... over the entire surface of the painting, and so satisfying to see all the old yellow varnish come off.

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears ...