While shepherds watched their flocks

“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

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

The Calling of St Matthew by Caravaggio

FROM LORCA: THE DRAWINGS BY HELEN OPPENHEIMER (1987) ...