My family and the forgotten massacre of Chios
Eugène Delacroix’s great painting changed Western art and recorded an atrocity that still haunts the island today.
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How Maurice Broomfield captured Britain at work
The leading postwar industrial photographer created images that are romanticised, unreal and full of respect for hard labour.
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How John Aldridge created a rural idyll in north Essex
The artist neither chased fame nor tired of his small patch of England.
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How Roelandt Savery gathered together the wonders of the natural world
Using what he encountered both in art and on his travels, the Flemish painter produced pictures that froth with creation.
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Caspar Wolf’s peak performances
The Swiss artist journeyed into the high mountains to paint what few had seen before.
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How Mary Swanzy brought colour to cubism
Both a witness to and a participant in the birth of modernism, the Irish painter personified the experimental art of…
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The secrets of Louise Bourgeois’s wardrobe
“I cannot separate myself from my clothes,” the artist wrote in the 1960s. Thirty years later they would inspire the…
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Carl Moll’s paintings for a perfect life
How the Austrian artist's conception of the ideal existence was muddied by Nazism.
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