Review of reviews: Books

Kerry James Marshall, ‘poised between narrative and allegory’

John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...

Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness

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

Still Life Flowers in a Jug at Charleston, ...