I drink, therefore i am

The piece I’d never part with

A snapshot of what’s happening in the world of wine

Hokusai imagined a massive breaker about to crash on tiny fishing boats. Sandro Botticelli had his Venus float in her shell on a mere sea ripple. Large or small, soothing or frightening, waves have long captivated artists, finds Michael Prodger

From Raphael and the mysterious Fornarina to Jan Steen with his flirtatious Margriet and Suzanne Valadon, who broke many hearts until she lost hers to a much younger man, Nick Trend explores five romances that made art history

An anonymous online statement about Fort reads thus: “While he didn’t specifically focus on horticulture, his work, particularly in books like The Book of the Damned often touched upon unusual natural

A poet who prospered despite Rome’s bloody civil wars