frescoes

Divine revelation

27 February 2021 9:00 am

Rosie Millard gets her gloved hands on one of the world’s most lavish – and expensive – art books

‘Madonna del Parto’ fresco in Monterchi by Piero della Francesca

On the trail of Piero

27 February 2016 9:00 am

Piero della Francesca is today acknowledged as one of the foundational artists of the Renaissance. Aldous Huxley thought his ‘Resurrection’…

Møns Klint as painted by Claudia Massie

Møn

18 April 2015 9:00 am

The sky over the island of Møn, which is at the bottom right of Denmark, was cobalt and the whitewashed…

All too human

13 September 2014 9:00 am

Alasdair Palmer reveals the monstrous egomaniac behind Michelangelo’s artistic genius