Enduring images of the everyday

Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge

Placed in the garden, a sculpture invites us to pause and appreciate both its beauty and that of the backdrop around it

Works by certain artists often become symbolic of a particular era. This is an angle which has proved very popular with visitors to London’s National Gallery in recent years and, this month, welcomes

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

Cezanne 25 at Aix-en-Provence