Christina J Faraday is a research fellow in history of art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the author of Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England (Paul Mellon Centre).
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects
Inger Christensen’s reissued take on the artist’s time at the Gonzaga court is as experimental as his work would have seemed to contemporaries
The identity of two terracotta busts attributed to Guido Mazzoni may be up for debate, but there’s no denying the emotional possibilities of the material in which they’re made
The mosaic artist’s celebration of El Barrio combines influences including African clothing to Latin jazz to create something wonderfully new
Printing is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
The Fitzrovia Chapel is an atmospheric choice of venue for an exhibition with an occult edge
Being married to the monarch was a hazardous business, but all six queens have lived on in popular memory and the artistic imagination
The flurry of exhibitions focusing on women artists is very welcome – as long as they avoid reinforcing tired old narratives
It has taken the National Trust 24 years to restore the Gideon Tapestries at Hardwick Hall to their former glory
In the works of Raphael the Virgin Mary often plays a more active and more joyful role than she is allowed by other artists
