The sinner who painted saints

Exhibition of the week Millet: Life on the ...

The very first moment we see Tilda Swinton in the history of cinema is just off-screen in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, looking like any one of a rabble of young men who are watching a fist fight and che

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

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...