The Alana Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Painting

Sparked by memories of her visits to Le Marche in central Italy, V&A curator Emily Knight explores the Victorian fascination with Italian Renaissance paintings manifested in the museum’s collection.

Scholar of black fashion and visual culture Jonathan M. Square responds to an unusual fragment of a painting by Annibale Carracci.

Poet Richie Hofmann dedicates his new poem, Jupiter, to a painting by Abraham Janssens.

Art historian Peter Humfrey reviews the much anticipated exhibition reuniting Titian’s six great mythological paintings for Philip II of Spain, which was forced to close three days after opening in March.

Anna Somers Cocks OBE reports on art and life from Turin, where she was sequestered for some time in Spring 2020.

David Ekserdjian presents a survey of films about artists.

John Spike recalls dining with one of the greatest collectors of Italian Still Life paintings, Silvano Lodi.

2019 saw the rare emergence of works by Caravaggio and Cimabue, which topped the auction record for Old Masters this year, as well as superb monographic shows devoted to Breugel, Dürer, da Vinci, El Greco, Verrocchio and Rembrandt.

On view between 18 Jun – 22 Sept 2019, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza brings together a small group of Spanish Old Master paintings in juxtaposition with the designs by Cristóbal Balenciaga.

Exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in Bilbao, 12 Apr – 6 Oct 2019 examining the influence of Old Masters on Giorgio Morandi’s still life paintings.

An exclusive interview with Jasper Sharp, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and designer Dani Mileo from Tom Postma Design on the making of the Beethoven Moves exhibition.

Making sense of the the $450 million record-shattering Leonardo da Vinci, which made over $300 million profit for the seller who originally felt to have overpaid at $127 million.

An intimate lecture on Carlo Maratti, ‘one of the most understudied of Italian Baroque artists.’

Nicholas Hall reviews the focus exhibition ‘Giovanni da Rimini: A 14th-Century Masterpiece Unveiled at the National Gallery, London’ on view between 14 June – 8 October 2017.

Nicholas Hall reviews exhibition Raphael: The Drawings at the Ashmolean Museum.

West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century – an exhibition organized by the Museum Barberini Potsdam and Kunstmuseum Basel. Featuring 120 works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries, it examines the influence of globalization on the Netherlands in the 17th century.

Taiwan-born Chinese lyricist and producer Yao Chien opens up about his new-found interest in Old Master paintings that began with books.