Lucy Davies is an arts writer. Her most recent books are about Mabel Pryde Nicholson (Eiderdown) and women painters (Hoxton Mini Press).
While exiled in the city, Marie Antoinette’s favourite artist stuck up a close friendship with her own idol, Angelica Kauffman
Many of the 81-year-old photographer’s images were made when even taking a camera to the streets was an act of resistance in Chile
At Pitzhanger Manor, eerie paintings by the Scottish artist commune with its architect’s taste for pared-back eccentricity
The photojournalist endured death threats to capture the turmoil of the Sicilian capital during the 1970s and ’80s