Books Do Furnish a Painting written by Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro is a stylish interrogation of “how and why books became the single...

There is a tendency for us to see the last work of artists, composers and writers as an intentional epilogue to their life’s achievement,...

The OED defines crisis as “A vitally important or decisive stage in the progress of anything; a turning-point; also, a state of affairs...

For many years, the works of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) were wrongly attributed to her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi or...

When women have freedom to depict themselves in paint they find their images no longer confined by the expectations of the male gaze....

The Renaissance and the Church Renaissance art, the art produced in the three hundred years between 1300 and 1600 [1], had its epicentre...

The relationship between artist and female sitter, and the manner in which this has affected the art produced, has informed our views of...

The tradition of depicting the female nude is central to Western Art and dates back to the classical period. Although critics have...

Ideals of Beauty The representation of ideals of beauty has been a goal of many artists over the last five centuries, perhaps most...