Leonardo da vinci – lady with an ermine

Painting wildlife is beset with difficulties not often experienced with other genres. This style of painting can be divided into many categories. One of the problems of painting wildlife is that anima

A personal approach to the Renaissance

Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, bargained, cajoled and went behind her family’s back to get what she desired. Meet 16th-century Italy’s most formidable collector

The form of St Mary Magdalene started life ...

ACRYLIC ARTIST JIM MUSIL rediscovered a love of painting twenty years after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Having starting as a hobby painter, he is now a successful full-time artist who

It’s 1905, the turn of the century, and Henri Matisse is pushing colour to its limits. The outwardly conservative and modest man, well-dressed lawyer turned artist, is now 36 years old and gaining mom