Light my fire

Offering unquestioning affection as well as a source of inspiration, the canine muse really is the artist’s best friend, discovers Agnes Stamp

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

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

A pound of flesh NEVER was an ...

In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle

JENNY SAVILLE IS KNOWN FOR HER LARGE-SCALE PORTRAITS of the female body, often depicted with grotesque exaggeration and distorted features. She links the intricacies of bodily flesh to the layering of