The self-assured sculptures of Pomona Zipser
With deceptively rickety creations that conceal the care that went into their making, the artist wittily questions our ideas about craft
The American who conquered cafe society in Rome
For seven decades, Milton Gendel recorded his charmed existence in delightfully candid photos and diaries
The British photographers who took their visual cues from the Grand Tour
Victorian photographers in Italy were inevitably influenced by forms of landscape painting made popular in the preceding century
Mary Weatherford takes on Titian in his hometown
The Californian painter’s responses to ‘The Flaying of Marsyas’ have a sublime quality all of its own
Infant prodigy – is this the most unusual baby picture in art history?
Lorenzo Tiepolo has long languished in the shadow of his much more famous father and brother – but his was a very singular talent
‘The Rocchetta Mattei is Italy’s Hearst Castle’
Max Norman visits the very peculiar home of an eccentric count who tried to derive electricity from vegetables
This colour chart of nature is completely mad – and utterly beguiling
An Enlightenment project to classify all the colours in the natural world is an extraordinary feat of ingenuity
Going to the doge’s – the Palazzo Grimani puts on a powerful display
At the Palazzo Grimani, more classical sculptures can now be seen in the splendid rooms in which they were once displayed
Dual purpose – passion and reason in the art of Nicolas Poussin
A new study emphasises the marriage of thought and feeling in the painter’s work
Van Eyck does the best he can in Vienna
A focused display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum brings the painter’s ingenuity to the fore
Munch’s prints are obsessive and repetitive – but a revelation all the same
He took to the medium with great speed, producing works that display a rich debt to the Old Masters
A new tower of Babel rises in the Bodleian Library
We know what translation can do – but what does it look like? Eight centuries of multilingual activity is on show in Oxford
The most beautiful boy in the Roman empire
Antinous, favourite of the emperor Hadrian, was commemorated all over the Roman world. He is a more troubling figure today
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