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As the National Gallery prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversa
From Raphael and the mysterious Fornarina to Jan Steen with his flirtatious Margriet and Suzanne Valadon, who broke many hearts until she lost hers to a much younger man, Nick Trend explores five romances that made art history
The piece I’d never part with
TALK about being overshadowed. Sculptor Andrea della Robbia, ...
Brown Jack not only won six consecutive times in Ascot’s Queen Alexandra Stakes, but was also the model for one of only two finished sculptures by Sir Alfred Munnings. A cast of it made top price at auction–as did a Canaletto at another sale
The Taking of Christ , 1602, oil on ...
Avoiding the curse of the figurative