Having the last laugh

A pound of flesh NEVER was an ...

Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, bargained, cajoled and went behind her family’s back to get what she desired. Meet 16th-century Italy’s most formidable collector

‘The pressure to look young is relentless’

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters, says Caroline Bugler

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture