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The paintings were done with the artist’s blood and depict a situation of hope in the times of fragility.

Props and dresses from famous James Bond films such as Casino Royale, For Your Eyes Only and The World Is Not Enough are up for online bidding.

Visitors have paid €2,000 in just four days to see Cecilia Gimenez's terrible restoration in Borja church.

Over 250 rare and unseen artefacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum will go on show during a major exhibition at the British Museum next spring

A skeleton dug up from an excavation site at the Saint Ursula convent in Florence, Italy, does not belong to Mona Lisa.

Cutty Sark restoration wins Carbuncle Cup, annual prize given to the worst new piece of architecture in Britain.

The black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dorothy Gale costume from The Wizard of Oz will go on display.

The exhibition, China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy, is slated to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Willy Russell’s hugely successful musical Blood Brothers will close its curtains for the final time on 27 October

An undersea exhibition on a sunken ship off the coast of the US state of Florida has been wooing divers into that surreal world through a photographic display

The portrait dates from the winter of 1786-7 during Burns's first visit to Edinburgh.

The 3D art show at the Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Centre showcases several paintings that give the illusion of 3D when viewed from a specific angle.

Archaeologists digging at the Saint Ursula convent in the Italian city of Florence have found the skeleton of a woman they claim was Lisa Gherardini

Bizarre and entertaining pictures of the straw land art festival 2012 held in Croatia.Check out the photos.

Financier reported to have paid $119.9m to clinch Edvard Munch's iconic work in a 12-minute bidding war.

The ring was in Jane Austen's family for nearly 200 years handed down among female descendants over many generations.

A successful grocer, and later, printer, Francis Frith fostered an interest in photography, becoming a founding member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853.

A rare important still life by famous Scottish Colourist, Samuel Peploe, leads Bonhams Annual Scottish Pictures Sale in Edinburgh.

Two unique groups of photographs of Lucian Freud by Cecil Beaton and David Dawson have been put up for Sotheby's Summer Season of Contemporary Art Sales.

A unique statue with an extraordinary story that moves between the worlds of early African exploration, opera, art and romance sold for £97,250 at Bonhams sale of Fine European Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art in London.

Exclusive artwork is part of Constable's set of six-foot canvases that include The White Horse (1819) and The Hay Wain (1822).

A rare portrait by one of Britain's most infamous artists will be on sale at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors.

A reindeer engraved on one of the walls of a South Wales cave has been confirmed as the oldest known rock art in the British Isles dated around 14,505 years ago.

Originally passed down to the sitter's great-great grandson and through six generations to the present owner, the painting has been in the family since it was executed around 1766.

The most acclaimed self-portrait of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci is reportedly in a critical condition and may be beyond repair.

The Victoria & Albert Museum acquires rare marble sculpture called The Crouching Venus by John Nost the Elder, signed and dated 1702.

Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores psychology and politics of living with HIV/Aids in South Africa.

A famed portrait in enamel of three eighteenth century society beauties will be one of the highlights in the Fine Portrait Miniatures auction at Bonhams.

Viewers shocked after contestant strips off on stage and paints canvas using her bare breasts.