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Artefacts looted by British soldiers from the Asante kingdom in the 19th century can now be seen in Ghana, but are loans from UK museums nearly enough?

The scholar’s meticulously preserved apartment in Rome testifies to his passion for all things 19th century, and to how he treated collecting as a form of memoir

The country has a long and rich history of viticulture, as we can tell from ancient Roman mosaics and its present-day vineyards

From the ancient world to modern times, humans have looked to the esoteric arts to answer questions about life, the universe and everything

The jeweller generally reveals precious little about its process, but Apollo gains access to the site in Paris where the magic happens

What can a bronze Han dynasty horse tell us about status anxiety and the afterlife? Ching-Ling Wang of the Rijksmuseum talks of grave matters

The Dutch artist’s floral paintings might look merely decorative but, as curator Bernd Ebert explains, they encapsulate a world of economic and scientific change in the early modern Netherlands

Rubens’s technical skill and attention to detail give The Garden of Love its heightened sense of erotic potential

The true gift of the author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ was to see the world like a child and blur the line between dreams and reality

Museums devoted solely to Egyptian antiquities are rare and Turin’s also tells the story of Italy’s long and complex relationship with the land of the pharaohs