Max Norman is a freelance writer.
With deceptively rickety creations that conceal the care that went into their making, the artist wittily questions our ideas about craft
For seven decades, Milton Gendel recorded his charmed existence in delightfully candid photos and diaries
Victorian photographers in Italy were inevitably influenced by forms of landscape painting made popular in the preceding century
The Californian painter’s responses to ‘The Flaying of Marsyas’ have a sublime quality all of its own
Lorenzo Tiepolo has long languished in the shadow of his much more famous father and brother – but his was a very singular talent
Max Norman visits the very peculiar home of an eccentric count who tried to derive electricity from vegetables
An Enlightenment project to classify all the colours in the natural world is an extraordinary feat of ingenuity
At the Palazzo Grimani, more classical sculptures can now be seen in the splendid rooms in which they were once displayed
A new study emphasises the marriage of thought and feeling in the painter’s work
A focused display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum brings the painter’s ingenuity to the fore
