Dark side of da vinci

How scientific and technological advancements have expanded the possibilities of human creativity

Anthony Lawrence, a New Forest artist, painted everything from Dante’s Inferno to portraits of Ian McKellen and Yehudi Menuhin. This October, Palais des Vaches presents the first major retrospective o

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

The ‘Mona Lisa of manuscripts’, finally on view

THAT summer, for the first time, Gabriella had invested in a season membership of the Lido Club and it had been worth every cent. Not only had it given her access to one of the fenced-off sections of

The great modernist composer Luciano Berio shares his surname with a best-selling Italian brand of olive oil, which seems apt as he was a very Italian sort of modernist. He loved the singing voice, he