Brigid von Preussen is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.
University College London holds the largest collection of works by the sculptor John Flaxman. His plaster models for funerary monuments and drawings show why, 200 years after the artist’s death, his reputation is due a revival
The sculptor was regarded as too sensual by classicists and too cold by Romantics, but a more superficial look at his work suggests what he was really up to
Three hundred years after the cabinet-maker’s birth, his name is still a byword for excellence
