The Feast of the Gods
A lusty gathering of Roman deities ends in embarrassment.
A lusty gathering of Roman deities ends in embarrassment.
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 society portraitist who emigrated to Britain from Hungary found himself embroiled in a drama of divided loyalties during the First World War.
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.