Art sleuth looks for lost Da Vinci masterpiece
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FLORENCE, Italy  - After 32 years on the trail of Leonardo da Vinci's lost masterpiece "The Battle of Anghiari", Maurizio Seracini thinks he is on the verge of solving one of the art world's greatest mysteries.
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A long-lost painting by Swedish master Carl Larsson, tucked away in a private collection in France for more than a century, sold for $730,000 at a Stockholm auction Tuesday.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the  Mona Lisa. Visitors to the Louvre museum in Paris, home of the  world's most famous painting, started quizzing tour guides  about Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code."
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DELFT, Netherlands  - An art restorer says he has  solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio  of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
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A mysterious three-part painting that is viewed as a Francis Bacon masterpiece sold for $46.1 million Wednesday at a Christieâs auction in London.
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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New high-resolution images of Leonardo's biblical painting show the artist's techniques in detail.
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Is his mysterious three-wheeled cart a proto automobile? A remote-controlled robot? A rolling Renaissance computer? Follow the quest to rebuild Leonardo's 'impossible machine.' By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine.
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Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint &#151; a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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A new book, âRescuing Da Vinci,â chronicles the efforts of Allied officers and soldiers to save and repatriate stolen treasures during and after the war.
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Grubby prints left by the dine-and-paint genius help researchers decode Leonardo. In Furthermore.
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OSLO, Norway - Norwegian police said Monday that they were working on several tips in their search for two Edvard Munch masterpieces, including a version of "The Scream," after a bold daytime theft from an Oslo museum in front of stunned visitors.    The paintings were stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum on Sunday by masked, armed thieves, who pulled them from the walls as visitors and staff watched...
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The guide ushering tourists into the  former monks' dining hall that houses Leonardo da Vinci's faded  masterpiece "The Last Supper" tried in vain to interest her  audience in art history, technique and aesthetics.
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Two masterpieces by artist Edvard Munch are recovered two years after being stolen from an Oslo museum.
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A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's  "Last Supper" will soon be posted on the Internet by an Italian  technology firm, allowing art lovers and conspiracy theorists  alike to scrutinize it from their own computers.
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A painting from Cuba offers a glimpse into the world of art smuggling.