Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Christie's I've become a bit obsessive about I. Q. van Regteren Altena, a scholar and collector of drawings whose coll...

Picture: British Museum The British Museum is lending a statue from the Parthenon to the Hermitage. It's not for an exhibition that...

Picture: MS This is an extraordinary and really rare picture, a small (32 by 41 inches overall) Thuringian altarpiece from around 1400,...

One of my irregular sharings of gems from the web.  I'm ridiculously excited that the Rembrandt Corpus is now free online (vols ...

Picture: Sotheby's This weekend was viewing for the winter old master sales at Sotheby's and Christie's in London. One of t...

Picture: Amazon Richard Verdi  Rembrandt's Themes: Life into Art  Yale University Press 2014 £25 This is a magnificent short st...

Picture: Art Institute of Chicago I thought I knew the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago pretty well, but it's bigger, be...