A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...
Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum houses one of the most scrutinized instruments in the world — a violin popularly called the Messiah. Although many experts say it was crafted in 1716 by master ...
Few living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. “The Messiah” Strad rests in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed “Alard” is owned by an English collector who does not ...