Acquired in the 17th century, the Amerbach collection provides insight into how Dürer's techniques were implemented by his contemporaries

The artist, critic and bon vivant was credited with propelling Jean-Michel Basquiat to fame

Art-world luminaries, from Eli Broad and Marina Warner to Tim Marlow and Xu Bing, pick the best art books they read in 2013

11 of the museum's works will be exhibited alongside 40 others loaned from around the world

The French musician, museum director, public servant and man of many letters.

The Pre-Raphaelite movement was conservative: “back to the future” might well have been its motto

The Prado and the Louvre collaborate for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition

The Pope apparently insisted that the Vatican's Raphael’s Madonna di Foligno be displayed alongside Dresden’s own Raphael, painted in the same year

A highly distinguished and expertly organised exhibition

A deep look into the remarkable objects now on display in the museum's recently opened galleries

The perfect reference book for those of us who cannot just offhand distinguish a gambeson from a hauberk

An exhibition catalogue continues the trend of challenging the dour image of Victoria

Policy regarding reclaiming of looted artworks to change come April

A grant will enable them to probe incomplete provenance records

What’s On: US museums and galleries

Photography, Asian art, the art of antiquity, Old Masters, and historiography are also among the topics covered

The show is an attempt by Prime Minister Ayatollah Khatami to eliminate bad feeling between Iran and the West, and to spread awareness about the archaeological sites in the country under threat

Now on at Tate Britain

A new exhibition takes a closer look at Leonardo's work on paper

The Queen's collection begin their celebratory journey in Graves Art Gallery Sheffield

160 works are now on show for the bicentenary of the artist's death

Pageantry reigns in the UK

The decadent show includes works from the Budapest Museum of Dine Arts, and is open until 4 August

Putin unwinds in Düsseldorf

Museo del Territorio, Biella, Piedmont

Seeing the true face of Florence

Despite curators’ protests, the French senate has pushed through a Raphael exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris

This new exhibition explores earlier British art than ever before

The exhibition on the Dutch master's female subjects will then travel to the Royal Academy

The work was taken by the Nazis from the Schloss Collection