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Going to the dogs: the 500-year old greyhounds of King’s and in the fight...
Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast.The fabulous architecture of King’s College Chapel is not just about piety. Its gravity-defying fan vaulting, decorative sculpture and stunning...
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How artisans used colour printing to add another dimension to woodcuts
The fearsome dragon is dead, its body contorted and mouth hanging open. Above it, a triumphant St George sits astride a splendid horse. He wears full armour, his legs thrust forward, spurs glinting and...
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Virtual Florence: religious art is ‘restored’ to its original setting
An exhibition at the National Gallery tells the story behind some of the most remarkable examples of religious art in its collections. Two large-scale paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries,...
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Russian art in the limelight: paintings and portraits that tell remarkable...
The Russian writer Fedor Dostoevsky sat for just one portrait in his lifetime. He was painted by Vasily Perov, an artist whose exquisite sketches conveyed some of the harshness of the imperial regime....
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Believing is Seeing: a Cambridge Shorts film
Where does science come from? It comes from inside our heads and our imagination. Science is the unknown, from the biggest scale to the tiniest, waiting to be discovered. It is the process of dreaming...
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Animating objects: what material culture can tell us about domestic devotions
It’s an enduring irony of history that the most commonplace objects from the past are those least represented in today’s museum collections. The more precious and expensive an object, the more likely...
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Kettle's Yard is back
We thought you might like a look inside the 'new' Kettle's Yard, which reopened to the public on Saturday, February 10, to learn more about its past – and future.As Kettle's Yard opens its doors...
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Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde
Shorthand Story: dpsOW40NbGShorthand Story Head: Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde Shorthand Story Body: Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde New exhibition puts the...
View ArticleDigital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches...
Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier Maggiore, 240 years after it was demolished.
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Illuminating art’s history
Faced with the prospect of his rapidly approaching nuptials on 29 October 1442, and with no wedding gift purchased for his bride-to-be, Francis I of Brittany (1414–1450) did what many of us have done...
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