A trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Old Masters usually feels like an encyclopedic affair, leaving one to saunter through a charming labyrinth of masterpieces throughout the ages. Such visits are typically not slated for seeing one specific work, however this Summer has provided a worthwhile exception to the rule, with the [...]

Reports from the inaugural “Master Paintings Week” collaboration between London’s Old Master dealers and auction houses have been smashing. For many of the private dealers, business was bountiful. The Antiques Trade Gazette described bustling commerce amidst the distraction of an epic men’s final at Wimbledon, and fortified interest from many of the top [...]

Tintoretto, “Susannah and the Elders”

Less than a month remains to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, one of the finest collections of Venetian painting ever assembled in this country. Rivals next stop is the Louvre. As a contemporary painter accustomed to stripped-down art, [...]

Paolo Veronese (c. 1528 – 1588)
Wisdom and Strength, c.1580
Oil on canvas
84 1/2 x 65 3/4 in. (214.63 x 167.01 cm)
From the collection of Henry Clay Frick, Frick Museum, NYC

Like “The Wedding at Cana”, a jpeg of one of Veronese’s most iconic works doesn’t do justice to it’s eminent presence at the end of the Frick [...]

While Sotheby’s major sale of Old Masters is comparably diminutive to Christie’s this  year, in both size and quality, there are a few treasures still to be found.
OMNP’s star of the show has to be Sir Anthony van Dyck’s “Portrait of Endymion Porter” (lot 11, left)
This portrait easily trumps the three that Christie’s is offering [...]

Christie’s sale on Tuesday ends with a bang with an essential work by Michele Marieschi.

Was Christie’s saving all of their best consignments for the Summer? Following a slumping Spring midseason sale in New York, the auction house makes a triumphant return to the market this Tuesday, boasting one of the finest selections of paintings that [...]

The opening of the Venice Biennale last month was highlighted by  a video installation commemorating one of the fabled city’s hometown heroes. “The Wedding at Cana” , the signature work of  Paolo Veronese, one of the three great painters from the Venetian Renaissance (along with Tintoretto and Titian)  was given in a modern-day tribute in [...]