We are an art gallery specializing in old master paintings

A paper given by art historian Caterina Volpi at the Italian Academy in April 2025 on the occassion of the study day for ‘Beyond the Fringe: Painting for the Market in 17th-Century Italy’.

Observations from the Saunders sale at Sotheby’s New York this May—a stress test for the Old Masters market and the double-edged sword of a single-owner sale.

The mysterious curse of an Italian scholar and essayist whose very mention is still thought by some to bring iella, Roman slang for “bad luck.”

Hans Baldung Grien’s ‘Mary as the Queen of Heaven’ was recently acquired from Nicholas Hall by the Alte Pinakothek, Munich—one of the largest and the most significant collection of German Renaissance paintings in the world.

Snippets from a Study Day held at the Italian Academy at Columbia University to accompanying the gallery exhibition ‘Beyond the Fringe: Painting for the Market in 17th-Century Italy’.

A moment of existential crisis evoked in a Baroque masterpiece that once lived in Beirut.

Notes from my week in London for the December Old Master auctions.

Dianne Modestini on the powers and limits of technical imaging.

Is it just us or does Dorothea Tanning’s family patriarch from 1954 look eerily familiar?

Painting in early 14th century Siena, unlike Florence, Venice or Padua, is perhaps most original for its small narrative scenes.

Stella Rudolph’s long-awaited catalogue raisonné of Carlo Maratti is finally out.

Eric Zafran follows the last four of seven Caravaggio acquisitions by American museums in the finale of his provocative series on Caravaggiomania in the U.S.

In Borgo San Sepolcro, an unexpected masterpiece by Rosso Fiorentino.

Revelations from our visit to the Scarpa-designed house museum of Antonio Canova in Possagno.

In the second of three provocative articles on Caravaggiomania in the U.S., Eric Zafran traces the tale of the first three Caravaggio acquisitions by American museums.

If only Annibale Carracci and Giulio Romano could have seen these spectacular 5th-century Roman mosaics.