Giulio Clovio News Today

He wrote about Venetian opera and died ‘fortified by the rites of the Holy Church, and a partridge and a bottle of champagne’

In April 2022 new tests on the Shroud of Turin – believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ – dated it to the first century.

Albrecht Dürer, Paul Cezanne and Paula Modersohn-Becker are just a few artists who drew male nudes. The Kunsthalle Bremen shows how representations of the naked body developed over six centuries.

Sofia Mitsola, returns to The Harley Gallery on the Welbeck Estate having previously shown with The Jerwood Collection. Inspired by the historic mini...

Crete – The Byzantine years

This is a young man’s book, written by somebody aged 73 and here reviewed by someone 13 years older. If you have ever wondered, as I have, about the age of the art historian you are reading, you can Google the scholar and roughly deduce it from the year of their PhD. Or, more interestingly, you can infer it from the education they received. The point is not his or her absolute age, but rather the scholar’s degree of seniority in relation to the training he or she underwent, and ability to k...