What is going on?
Pity the poor art historian writing a survey of painters from Giotto to, say, Poussin. In order to produce a…
Shadows on the wall
‘Take away, utterly extinct and destroy all shrines … pictures, paintings and all other monuments of feigned miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry…
They do it with mirrors
If ever there was a time to write a book about self-portraits, this must be it. ‘Past interest in the…
Strands of Scottish history
A couple of years ago, while tracking down paintings for the Public Catalogue Foundation in the far north of Scotland,…
Divinely decadent
With an eye to the blasphemy underlying some of the loveliest Renaissance painting, Honor Clerk will be choosing her Christmas cards more carefully this year
Bring on the winged kelp
On 14 April each year, nori fishermen gather on a hillside overlooking Ariake Bay on Kyushu in southern Japan to…
