After its owner submitted the piece to an online appraisal service, auction house specialists realized it had been ...

A Turner watercolor that was rediscovered when it was submitted to Christie's online appraisal service could fetch half a ...

The watercolor is valued at approximately ten times more than if it were a Ruskin, who it was previously attributed to.

Venice, steeped in history and full of the treasures of bygone ages, usually stands for tradition. But every two years this beautiful city built on a lagoon hosts the art world’s most important ...

Austria is sending Viennese choreographer Florentina Holzinger, known for her shocking nude performances, to the Biennale in ...

A painting submitted by a member of the public ... The work, now known to be The Approach to Venice or Venice from the Lagoon (around 1840), depicts an incoming storm and had been in the family ...

For three decades, a single idea on how to safeguard Venice and its lagoon from sinking beneath the sea has held sway: a wall of hinged barriers at each of the three entrances to the lagoon that ...

Churches hung with Renaissance art masterpieces. A canal view down every street. Gondolas weaving their way between ferries and transport barges. Sunset on the lagoon. Venice is everyone's dream city.