Art

A warning is ignored and a city falls in El Greco’s lurid depiction.

A tale of female revenge, power and solidarity.

Holbein’s creative life during three decades of extraordinary political, religious and intellectual turbulence.

The myth of Arachne and Minerva is a commentary on the plight of the artist, wrapped in a dramatic tale of rivalry between god and mortal.

Snobs, bores and triumphs at the Royal Society of Arts.

Human suffering is at the heart of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.

When Henry VIII and Francis I met 12 years after the Field of Cloth of Gold – with Henry accompanied by Anne Boleyn – both sought to outdo one another with exquisite items of display.

The Classical world in Venetian colours.

The Painted Hall at Greenwich: how it was commissioned, its narrative and its meaning.

As a frontline soldier in the First World War, the German artist Otto Dix fell under the spell of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and his assault on Christian morality.