Classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty

What the West owes to the ancient world

The “Emperor of the Night”, as he has been grandly called,1 the Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys was the great pioneer of “lucid dreaming”: to be aware, while you are fully asleep, that you are dreamin

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

King Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons

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