Photo: Roger Bowdler
Lily van der Stokker
, from the group known as Orpheus and the Sirens (350–300 BC), southern Italy.
Mariana Castillo Deball studio portrait
Not falling any time soon: plaque dedicated to Cecil Rhodes in King Edward Street, adjacent to Oriel College, Oxford.
Nikita Gale. Courtesy Chisenhale Gallery
Pop artist Claes Oldenburg with one of his works, an outsize tube of toothpaste on display in the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, West Germany.
Torkwase Dyson. Photographed by Suzie Howell
The Horniman Museum and Gardens in Forest Hill, London, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend and constructed in 1898–1901.
Hew Locke portrait
Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London
A 19th-century engraving of Jane Austen, likely derived from a portrait of c. 1810 by Cassandra Austen. Photo: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo
Covered box with scene from The Tale of Genji (c. 1895), Ota Jinnoeimon. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. Photo: © 2022 John Bigelow Taylor
A Beautiful Despair
Portrait of Georges de Porto-Riche (detail; 1889), Jacques-Émile Blanche. Robilant + Voena
Emma Talbot studio
Equestrian shrine figure (ojubo elesin) depicting a priestess of Oya, (1920–40), Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Tatiana Trouvé in her studio
Vincent van Gogh National Museum Oslo
Double take – Picasso’s Seated Nude (detail; 1909–10) and El Greco's Penitent Magdalene (detail; c. 1580–85), El Greco. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2022