Johannes Vermeer brightened his native Delft with luminous pictures of women caught in intimate moments, but the serenity of his work, of which he produced remarkably little, is at odds with a life mired in debt, as Carla Passino discovers

The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London EC2

John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...

One Bath location that Jane Austen wrote about – criticising the houses as being too small – is New King Street. Come to number 19, in which several rooms recreate interiors in a typical 18th-century

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Cultural Crusader