A Rajasthan tiger hunt picture and a silver kiddush cup from Khurasan with coeval inscriptions in Hebrew and Arabic starred at two sales that put the spotlight on the art of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent

John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...

This week’s dream: wonder and melancholy in eastern Turkey ...

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Cultural Crusader

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