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Exhibition of the week Jenny Saville: The Anatomy ...

From topless staddle stones outperforming complete ones to two versions of the same desk selling on the same day 212 miles apart, bizarre occurrences are par for the course at contents sales

La Pietà by Michelangelo

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

A pound of flesh NEVER was an ...

Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, bargained, cajoled and went behind her family’s back to get what she desired. Meet 16th-century Italy’s most formidable collector