The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

A new exhibition explores the enduring style of the infamous 18th-century French queen

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells Carla Passino why he thinks we have read Vermeer wrong all along– and who the Girl with a Pearl Earring really is

John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...

Johannes Vermeer brightened his native Delft with luminous pictures of women caught in intimate moments, but the serenity of his work, of which he produced remarkably little, is at odds with a life mired in debt, as Carla Passino discovers