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The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece

The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there

Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement

The learned institution has always been important to art historians, but a major new refurbishment will give it a higher profile

Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her when she was a teenager

The mystery surrounding the meaning of an allegorical painting by Dosso Dossi may be precisely its point, explains the curator Pierre Curie

When Jonathan Lethem picked up an innocuous old painting of a cormorant for $50, he didn’t know it would become a companion for life

Kevin Dumouchelle of the National Museum of African Art explains what a fearsome 19th-century ceremonial mask meant to its makers in Côte d’Ivoire