Who needs art historians after all? ⠀ In a recent essay, I had to define the discipline of art history and delineate my place within it....

Say it slowly with me: 7 billion pixels! This is how many pixels are in some of the “gigapixel” images that the Google Arts & Culture...

Is she or isn't she? ⠀ There are many more questions that could be asked about the enigmatic La Bella Principessa. But the main question...

They were the modern women – able to vote and earn a living. They embraced their new freedoms and it translated into a unique, fresh...

Is she a fetishised object of desire? A symbol of idealised beauty? A mystery? A myth? A provocateur? ⠀ The beguiling Rokeby Venus by...

The tragic biographical details of Zinaida Serebriakova’s life are veiled behind the opulent and luscious femininity of her neoclassical...

Juan Hamilton - a beautiful, tall and lanky 27 year old turned up on the door step of Georgia O’Keeffe in 1973. She was 84, an undeniable...

Kazimir Malevich arrived in Vitebsk in October of 1919 to teach at the People’s Art Academy, established by Marc Chagall a year earlier....

Are you copying me? ⠀ Anything you can do I can do better! ⠀ Rembrandt saw Titian’s portrait of the mysterious “Man with the Blue Sleeve”...

This gorgeous little motif of the Christ child mischievously stepping on the drapery of his mother’s robe is the gentle detail that makes...

Love in Renaissance Italy was brutal. Misogyny prevailed in society - women were classed as a less rational, inferior sex, consumed...