The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Who Owns Beauty? Bénédicte Savoy (Polity, £25) ...

Dei ex machinae “I TALY HAS THE ...

Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market to tell the true stories of the world’s most thrilling frauds, forgeries and heists