Medieval notions of bronze as a living, divine substance

A new books makes a passionate argument for museums

Not everyone could afford their own mortuary churches or chapels

This small book is ground-breaking, bringing to light Islamic beliefs and superstitions

Diana Widmaier Picasso, granddaughter of the artist, reveals this secret

Quite suddenly, a sophisticated and passionate discussion has sprouted about this fine needlework

The uses of magnificence at the Stuart Court is the subject of a new book

Alexandre Lenoir, the founder of the Musée des Monuments Français

Richard Diebenkorn’s four-volume catalogue raisonné reveals his variable styles

For 45 years in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the silversmith made exuberant work

Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson

This Festschrift for Peter Hecht illuminates the transformative powers of museum acquisitions

The art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Tankai

A farewell collection of reviews by the American-born, British art critic

Roman art shared a common visual repertory throughout the Empire, but there were significant variations in local styles

A new history of Britart is long on anecdote but short on critical insight

Rumors of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated

Rainer Maria Rilke’s apprenticeship under Auguste Rodin

A complete historical catalogue of the Wallace Collection’s Italian sculptures

Writings, new and old, by the nonagenarian, Marxist and self-confessed “stop-gap” storyteller

New discoveries are changing how we understand ancient domesticity

A splendid new book examines what the poet Rainer Maria Rilke learned from Auguste Rodin

Goods and culture traveled in both directions