The power and glory of Parisian art

The author of a Spanish literary masterpiece

The Barbary corsair ship appeared suddenly on the horizon, bristling with cannon. Its decks swarming with armed men, it sliced through the waves at a clip that its quarry – the British merchant ship A

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Kerry James Marshall, ‘poised between narrative and allegory’