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Tests on Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata pieces were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century master

Gentileschi’s work and life have become a greater source of fascination in recent years

TRAVEL IN FOCUS: Not focusing just on Picasso, but also highlighting the importance of the other people around him, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, in partnership with the Musée Picasso in Paris, promises a new perspective on the troubled artist, writes Michael Hodges

In late July, during a visit to the National Gallery of Australia, three Buddhist bodhisattva statues caught my attention.

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Jones’s view that the chain of galleries is losing its identity as more dynamic rivals flourish

Curators can now chart the seismic shifts in 20th-century art – and include more works by women and artists of colour, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art

Tate Modern reframes its Picassos in a theatrical light, there’s a hands-on utopia in Gateshead, and the Cerne chalk giant gets a colourful new neighbour

4/5 Radical Harmony looks at collector Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists, in an interesting homage... but there’s no escaping the dots