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.
Art
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.
Artist of the Enlightenment
Joseph Wright of Derby and the exhibition at the Tate.
Enterprise and Meaning: Sponsored Film, 1939-1949
William Bird looks at how American business and commerce turned to the techniques of advertising and Hollywood to extol the merits of capitalism and free enterprise in response to the anti-corporate liberalism of the New Deal.