My favourite painting rob houchen

Avoiding the curse of the figurative

The piece I’d never part with

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

Exhibition of the week William Kentridge: The Pull ...

Portrait of George Frideric Handel by William Hoare

A poet who prospered despite Rome’s bloody civil wars