Saints and angels

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

I am 15 years old when I meet my special friend. I leave my concrete suburb, overflowing with a rage that longs to be soothed, but I don’t know how. My bike is my outlet, my escape route, and I ride t

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers

Paris has always been a magnet for bohemians and creatives. Here are ten artists and writers who lived in the City of Lights