Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge

Works by certain artists often become symbolic of a particular era. This is an angle which has proved very popular with visitors to London’s National Gallery in recent years and, this month, welcomes

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Holbein Elizabeth Goldring (Paul Mellon Centre, £40) ACCORDING ...

King Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons

MARK CORETH has gone small—not the man himself, ...