Did the arts really flourish the Pope's patronage?

Rachel Rose and Howie Chen are among the first artists to work on the new project

How Ellsworth Kelly’s art came of age

The source of a major change in icon painting may have been discovered

A new book on the movement draws lessons on the dangers of eclecticism

The non-courtly manuscripts and miniatures of the al-Sabah Collection come together in a new publication

His drawings in the collection of the Vatican Library are the subject of a new book

After Schlegel, Dante was loosed from the Romantic moorings and entered the mainstream of German letters

Contrary to popular opinion, the Early Renaissance German art market developed simultaneously with, not later than, those in Italy and the Low Countries

A valuable overview of the current state of scholarship

Jane Jakeman reviews two very different takes on art in the Middle East

A book looking at Modern images of prostitutes is lacking in necessary context

New research into the artist's work has offered new perspectives, but much work remains to be done

The final instalment in the collected letters of a revivalist pioneer

The book’s finest points are overshadowed by dispiriting foolishness

In the battle with tradition, Impressionism’s “triumph” was not a foregone conclusion

Sigismondo Malatesta embraced Christ on his own terms

Mark Rothko’s son reflects on his father’s art

A consideration of the interconnections between disciplines

The presentation of painting all too often undermines the nature of true invention

It was a case of international economics and politics in kettles and coolers

Two appreciations of the remarkable 18th-century artist and collector

A new book is an exemplary study of the artist

How Germany fashioned its identity through 15th- and 16th-century Italian art