The “how” question — encompassing everything from “how do you make a painting?” to “how did we get here?” — is the simplest route to explaining why Marshall — the subject of a pulsating exhibition at ...

We’re so used to modern hygiene that it’s easy to forget how difficult self-care once was. With limited information and few reliable resources, people developed odd — and often unhygienic — habits. In ...

Decades after an uninhabitable, windswept Arctic island sparked an unlikely dispute between Canada and Denmark, the world map will be redrawn: The countries have announced that they will split ...

Created in close collaboration with the artist, Catherine Opie: To Be See n will bring together works spanning 30 years of ...

Today, as Elizabeth Goldring explains in her “superb and groundbreaking biography”, it is hard to “appreciate just how novel ...

Hans Purrmann was a German artist known for his landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. Born in 1880 in Speyer, Germany, he studied at the university in Karlsruhe and the university in Munich.

Self-portrait after Madame Vigée Lebrun, Portrait of Jane Grey, Portrait of Catherine Howard after Hans Holbein, Portrait of Madame Eliott after Richard Cosway, Portraits of Women after Jean-Marc ...

On the evening of 6 May 1527, Henry VIII entertained an embassy from France at a lavish party in Greenwich. The festivities took place in a banqueting house and a theatre, both built for the occasion.

When we think of the Tudors, we think of majestic paintings in which they appear triumphant, ruffed, and dripping in finery. Across Renaissance Europe, portraiture was beginning to play a crucial role ...

This week, the first "scholarly" biography of painter Hans Holbein received acclaim while fiction reviews reward the experimental. Bad Bad Girl (Granta), the “novel-cum-memoir" from Gish Jen “about a ...

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