The town's mayor was one of the few people who knew that the real painting was somewhere safe but locals had their suspicions something was up. The Crucifixion by Pieter Brueghel the Younger that ...

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"I found this painting in a French house and the painting was behind the door in the television room and I started my estimations in this room and when I turned back I saw this painting. So it was a ...

One of Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger's largest known works, whose discovery behind the television room door of a house in northern France amazed the art world, fetched 780,000 euros ...

An auction house appraiser found a 17th-century painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger behind a door in a northern French home. "The Village Lawyer" (1615-1617) depicts peasants in a greedy lawyer's ...

Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a Polish museum over 50 years ago. Authorities say the case was finally solved with the help of ...

It’s hard to find an invention more emblematic of the birth of modern science than the telescope. And yet surprisingly little is known about its early development. The inventor of the telescope ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — One of Flemish painter Pieter ...