Art

Does the intelligent sea mammal, long associated with Venus, the goddess of love, offer a clue to a lost jewel of the Renaissance? 

Even in a pastoral idyll, there is death.

Holbein the Younger’s image still startles 500 years after its creation.

Love conquers all in Botticelli’s sensuous mythological masterpiece. 

A warning is ignored and a city falls in El Greco’s lurid depiction.

A tale of female revenge, power and solidarity.

Holbein’s creative life during three decades of extraordinary political, religious and intellectual turbulence.

The myth of Arachne and Minerva is a commentary on the plight of the artist, wrapped in a dramatic tale of rivalry between god and mortal.

Snobs, bores and triumphs at the Royal Society of Arts.