Posy of Flowers, with a Beetle, on a Stone LedgePICTORIALMany of us are familiar with titans of the Dutch Golden Age like ...

At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...

The book, celebrated at a recent launch at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, is a collection of sonnets – traditionally a ...

A new exhibition explores this close friendship, and how it benefited art history. On 23 December, 1888, the day that Vincent ...

eighteen works by Rembrandt – seventeen paintings and one drawing – are shown together in Amsterdam for the first time. Other renowned artists in the exhibition include Frans Hals, Jan Steen, ...

In an interview with Apollo in 2017, four years before his death, the American artist Wayne Thiebaud claimed that ‘the art world is not much interested in humour […] to its disadvantage’.

In the long-awaited sequel to “Wolf Hall,” Henry VIII’s royal fixer pays the price for success. (It’s his head.) ...

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick ...