The Musée Jacquemart-André examines how the Renaissance master’s style was shaped by his encounters with fellow artists

The National Gallery in London looks again at one of the most recognisable works in its collections

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf brings together provocative text-based works from across the artist’s career

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston makes more room for its vast collection of objects, textiles and paintings

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris shows off its impressive holdings of masterworks by the likes of Millet, Degas and Mary Cassatt

The Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin turns its attention to the women who shaped the art of the Italian Renaissance

Artefacts from the lost ancient civilisations of Sardinia, Cyprus and Crete go on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

The Dutch father and son were among the most influential maritime painters of the 17th century

Architects imagine new ways of making public space more accessible in the city

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna pairs the German artist’s upside-down paintings with Old Masters

The capital of the Shang Dynasty is home to the country’s earliest surviving written records

The artist brings his scrapyard sculpture to the Hayward gallery

Gardens have long been seen as symbols of freedom and paradise, as this display in Stockholm makes clear

The Art Institute of Chicago considers the contradictory impulses that governed the Spanish surrealist during the 1930s

The German artist’s unsettling images examine the uncanny relationship between visual culture and collective memory

Two ornamental sets of vases owned by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette of France go on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles

The Whitechapel Gallery brings together 150 paintings by 81 international women artists

The painter’s characterful portraits shine a light on marginalised individuals in 20th-century New York

The Louisiana Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to see works spanning the entirety of the American artist’s career