O ne of Italy’s most famous museums is getting tougher when it comes to selfies. The Uffizi in Florence, home to masterpieces ...

Nor is this the first time a Van Gogh painting has been subjected to X-ray analysis. Back in 2008, European scientists used synchrotron radiation to reconstruct the hidden portrait of a peasant ...

An 18th Century oil painting has allegedly been damaged after a museum visitor tripped while taking a selfie. Florence's ...

A rare oil portrait of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi - painted in 1931 in the UK - will be auctioned in London next month. Gandhi led a non-violent resistance movement against British rule ...

A previously unknown self-portrait of celebrated Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered hiding in plain sight on the back of another painting, the National Galleries of Scotland ...

The self-portrait was revealed during an X-ray of an 1885 painting by Van Gogh, Head of a Peasant Woman, as the museum was prepping for an upcoming exhibition on impressionism, which is scheduled ...

And lo and behold, we were quite surprised to discover a completely different painting in the X-ray image." The self-portrait was on the back of "Head of a Peasant Woman," under several lawyers of ...

Unlike in some of the artist’s later self-portraits, Van Gogh’s left ear is clearly visible in the X-ray. He famously cut it off in December 1888 after an argument with fellow artist Paul Gauguin.