Keith Miller works at the Telegraph and is the author of ‘St Peter’s’ (Profile)
In voluptuous paintings of cakes and other foods, the American artist captured both pleasure and a sense of surfeit
A touring exhibition of gladiatorial objects found in Britain makes a stab at getting to the heart of our fascination with the amphitheatre, but does it succeed?
At the new museum of the Forma Urbis, slabs of the famous map of the city now lie literally beneath visitors’ feet
A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status
Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
