Researchers at C2RMF give an exclusive preview of their forensic study of all the artist's works in French museum collections

Vincent was allowed 42 units of wine in the asylum—three times more than today’s recommended limit

New research finds teenage artist's landscapes were based on a magazine for amateurs learning how to paint

New exhibition reveals 22 falsely attributed works discovered in German museum's collection

Julia Weist's project embedded in the New York public records reveals the uneven relationship between the city and its creatives

Insurance measures allowed the Leonardo painting to be included in the Louvre’s blockbuster if the loan was confirmed by 1 January. Now that date has passed, Martin Kemp laments its disappearance

Public collections usually avoid showing works that are on the market, but expert claims the $450m picture was made available to museums and collectors before the 2011 exhibition

New York-based Wildenstein-Plattner Institute will digitise fabled Wildenstein archive of sale catalogues, letters and experts’ notes

As the National Gallery's exhibition opens in London, an expert speculates that the teenager in his Polynesian works could be a composite of women the painter encountered

New research suggests work could be a prototype of an idealised “Venus” portrait designed by Leonardo himself

Institute’s collections are helping to provide an understanding of how global warming affects specific locations

The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting

The portrait has striking similarities to a recent acquisition by the National Gallery in London

New research centre project means South Korean motor company is now probably the largest corporate sponsor of visual arts for UK museums

We travel back to the 18th century and delve into the grisly family murders that helped Gainsborough gain fame. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg tell us all about her new book Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st century. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Research by The Art Newspaper uncovers wide disparity in both fee structures and transparency

New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child

New research reveals name of man in the artist’s finest asylum portrait

Noah Charney on the Sadnikar family's extremely personal collection in Slovenia

The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait

Reconstruction at heart of new research centre preserves spirit of artist’s cluttered creative space

An Israeli art historian has spent 20 years trawling the country’s archives for Palestinian cultural property

Expert says new evidence could reveal the location of Mexican artist’s biggest work, which “disappeared into thin air”

The Mosse Art Research Project, a cooperation with the German government, identifies eight works and launches online database

Researchers use terahertz scanning to understand artist’s methods

The project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, will concentrate on time-based media, digital and performance art

Online inventory of more than 1,000 paintings will help scholars and the art market

The site is to be restored as a monument to the artist’s young model, whose portrait has been called the Mona Lisa of Austria

The online platform will have an emphasis on connoisseurship says the catalogue’s author and art dealer Jane Kallir

Roman museum aims to become the primary reference for scholarship on the artist