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An expansive exhibition in San Francisco brings together the artist’s influential work, including five newly attributed pieces

Art and the world of Swatch merge in the Swatch Art Journey Collection set to take the iconic timepieces from artists' studios and museum walls straight to people's wrists.

A century after his death, Marcel Proust's depiction of a vanished world transformed by war is acutely relevant

Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat and Lucian Freud will go under the hammer next month in a sale of artworks from the estate of late Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen that is expected to raise more than $1 billion for philanthropic causes.

Unauthorised reproduction of Italian publicly owned art is strictly illegal

Any use of Italy’s publicly owned art to sell merchandise requires permission and payment of a fee

Rome (AFP) - The Uffizi museum in Florence said Monday it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorised use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus", its Italian Renaissance masterpiece.

New York (AFP) - A rare Botticelli painting depicting Jesus Christ will go up for auction on January 27 at Sotheby's in New York, a year after a record $92 million was paid for a work by the Italian Renaissance master.