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• January 2, 2011
  Old Masters + New Perspectives is now OMNP Arts, with a salon of select works to debut on January 6

  We’re relaunching Old Masters + New Perspectives, as OMNP Arts, to now provide our readers with select releases of Old Masters for sale.

• December 25, 2010
  Holiday cheer with Brueghel the Elder

  Happy Holidays from OMNP, with a quirky Nativity by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

• December 12, 2010
  A look at Christie’s and Sotheby’s December Old Master sales in London

  Was Poussin’s “Ordination” an epic failure at Christie’s, or a sign that art collectors don’t know where to spend their money? OMNP mulls over the unsold masterpiece that headed last weeks auctions in London.

• April 2, 2010
  Postcard from Paris: Beatrice Crosti on the 2010 Salon du Dessin at the Palais de la Bourse

  BY BEATRICE CROSTI
  This year’s Salon du Dessin more than fulfilled its promise to offer a selection of both beautiful and important works on paper from the French, Italian, English and Northern schools. Visitors were not only impressed by a range of A-listers like Tiepolo, Delacroix, Guercino, Ingres, Bonnard, and Louise Bougeois,  but also by the [...]

• March 31, 2010
  New Turner and Rubens for Sotheby's and Christie's, and the passing of two museum legends

  BY BLAIR LEAKE
  Salon du Dessin concluded this weekend in Paris and according to New York Times writer, Souren Melikian, the annual drawings fair was “a buzz of excitement.” For a first-hand account of the fair, our colleague Beatrice Crosti was there onsite to [...]

• March 25, 2010
  Recently in Old Masters

  Our commentary on some of the  recent ongoings in the Old Masters world.

  Raphael’s “Head of a Muse” is temporarily banned for export from the UK.
  British culture minister Margaret Hodge  has requested a temporary period to review the Christie’s sale of Raphael’s Head of a Muse after ruling that an attempt should be made to keep the valuable [...]

• December 31, 2009
  Season's greetings from OMNP

  …and a Happy New Year. Looking forward to some big changes to the site in 2010!

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• November 6, 2009
  A separated fragment of a Veronese altarpiece finds its way home after being separated for centuries

  As the feature of an exhibition,16th century religious altarpieces by Paolo Veronese can make for arcane subject matter

• October 19, 2009
  Uncovering the lost Leonardos

  These days, announcements of Leonardo discoveries are rather routine. Details surrounding two of the latest cases however-the sudden cooperation of the notorious Italian bureacracy on a long delayed Leonardo excavation

• October 8, 2009
  The only Michelangelo in the Western hemisphere is about to step into the limelight

  Health care reform may be dead in the water, but at least the ripple effect of a new US administration has stirred up some priceless works of art. In a motion symbolizing the “strong ties of friendship that continue to bind both countries,” the French Embassy has made the gracious decision to give one of [...]