Art

The Tangled Web of Art's War Victims

Frank Nowikowski investigates missing paintings mysteriously found after the Second World War.

Turner and Shakespeare's Jessica

Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England.

Philadelphia's Unknown Master

Rachel Braverman on a shocking American realist.

Art and Empire - Wembley, 1924

Tom August explores the imperial assumptions - and the hints of independence from Britannia - to be found in the paintings and artists on show in the Palace of Arts at the British Empire Exhibition.

The Soderini And The Medici; Painting, Power And Patronage; & Leonardo

Three new publications on the Renaissance

German Cartoons of the First World War

Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World War.

The Art And Architecture Of Freemasonry

by J.S. Curl

'Enough Survives' - The Earl of Surrey and European Court Culture

William Sessions on the connections of the charismatic courtier-poet who in a short and ill-fated life bridged the aristocratic Renaissance cultures of the Continent and the lifestyle of Henry VIII's court.

The RAF on Screen 1940-1942

During the early days of UK involvement in World War II, official British films deliberately created a particular view of the air war, perhaps distorting our perceptions of some key phases.