The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Alexander Marshal–this country’s first major botanical painter–deserves to be better known, writes Tiffany Daneff, after seeing his luminous originals in the Royal Collection

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

The power and glory of Parisian art

The Dream by Henri Rousseau

Johannes Vermeer brightened his native Delft with luminous pictures of women caught in intimate moments, but the serenity of his work, of which he produced remarkably little, is at odds with a life mired in debt, as Carla Passino discovers