From Charlton Heston writhing on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to Kirk Douglas’s dead ringer for Van Gogh, films about painters were prestige studio fare
The painter’s society portraits come to life in a well-chosen survey at the Frick
For artists including Turner, Kandinsky and, of course, Van Gogh, the colour yellow signified everything from rebirth to danger
Barnaby Phillips’s new book follows the many twists and turns of the royal treasures Britain took from the Asante kingdom
The Roman poet’s great work Metamorphoses has had a hold on artists from the Renaissance to the present
The self-taught painter had a trememdous sense of self-belief, despite being ridiculed in his lifetime. A landmark exhibition confirms him as a singularly modern artist
Joseph Koerner’s account of art made in extremis turns Bosch, Beckmann and Kentridge into unexpected associates across the ages
The painter’s depiction of the murder of Jean-Paul Marat made him the very model of a Revolutionary martyr
Dorothy Stratten is remembered less for her acting than for the terrible circumstances of her death. Cristine Brache’s paintings put her back in the spotlight for all the right reasons
After half a century, two shows bring into focus an artist we should have been watching all along
After years of being profoundly unfashionable, one of the most important British figurative painters of the 20th century is ripe for reappraisal
An exhibition at Pallant House Gallery makes clear how serious the British artist was and how seriously underrated he has been
The siblings who were at the centre of high Victorian culture are being brought vividly back to life at the Watts Gallery
A new biography celebrates the brilliance of the artist who shaped our image of the Tudors
With the help of Edmund de Waal, an exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield brings out the Danish polymath’s playful side
Exploring the history of the period through objects reveals the extent to which art underwent a revolution
The artist’s first retrospective in Paris finds her making connections between humans and the material world in unsettling and inventive ways
Once the jewel of a 17th-century collection in Rome, this playful painting is reunited with old friends – or suggestions of them at least
The artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings marry the pursuit of knowledge with wonder and suspense
An ambitious exhibition in the painter’s home city of Florence makes clear that his art had a touch of the divine
A biography of the Purist artist Amédée Ozenfant brings welcome attention to an esoteric period of modernism
An exhibition of artists’ depictions of sleep at the Musée Marmottan Monet is very far from a snoozefest
Susanna Berger’s new book makes a sound argument for the tricksiness of Catholic architecture in 17th-century Rome
The artist’s immaculate paintings of cakes, deli counters and pinball machines are in fact odes to imperfection
