The Hispanic Society Museum and Library's ultra-rare Black Book of Hours is the recipient of this year's TEFAF Museum ...

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...

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by an unknown 15th Century painter, was being contested by Hamburg law courts. Stern, who died in 1987 at the age of 83, recovered 14 paintings during his lifetime, but the fight continued.

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In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.