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

A mistaken attempt to raise the status of vase painting

Eagleton looks at a critic who was 'piously dedicated to his own pleasure'

The extraordinary influence of Delacroix is tackled in a new exhibition and accompanying catalogue

In a new book out this month, industry leaders open up about role models, wrong turns and hard-won lessons

Technological and cultural changes since the fall of the Berlin Wall have forced artists to paint the face anew

The artist's excessive emphasis on production eclipses everything else

The charm of Samuel Palmer’s work is its refusal to submit to analysis

From the 1860s, a network of museums were founded nationwide

To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, a book celebrates Adolph Menzel as the “painter of modern life”

In an extract from his new book, Christopher Rothko explains how the master of abstraction absorbed the stylistic principles and emotional contradictions of the 18th-century genius