The firm’s chief silver designer was also an avid collector of decorative arts from all over the world, many of which he donated to the Met
The artist never left the Netherlands, but these etchings show that the animals, architecture and clothing from faraway places certainly sparked his imagination
A collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Hamburger Kunsthalle puts Blake’s myth-making in the context of his European contemporaries
The Getty Center presents an illuminated French manuscript that takes armchair travellers to foreign and often fantastical places
An uncanny family portrait by Lavinia Fontana and Sorolla’s striking copy of a Velásquez are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
As climate change continues to affect the world and the way we see it, here are four paintings of weather events, which serve as dramatic reminders of the power of nature and of human vulnerability
The artist has all she needs in her capacious studio in Sydney, where her artist partner, some audiobooks and a Mexican papier-mâché skeleton keep her company
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
The Baltimore Museum of Art is pairing Matisse’s portraits of women with Japanese woodcut prints to reveal a shared interest in complex patterns
Two decades of photographs documenting the lives of the Black and queer communities of South Africa go on show at Tate Modern
