A paradise of apples

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

French artists have appropriated alfresco dining ever since Édouard Manet scandalised Paris with his Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe , yet many charming scenes were painted in Britain, too, and are worth rediscovering, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

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SOME mornings I sit and marvel at the ...

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

LAST month, I revisited our old house in ...