A rare painting by the street artist Banksy, inspired by the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, sold for nearly 4.3 million pounds ($5.5 million) Tuesday, according to auction ...

“The Last Day of Pompeii,” a 19th-century painting by the Russian artist Karl ... He concluded that a simple scribal mistake, made in the 1420s, of switching a “u” for an “n” had ...