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Alessandro Allori - Lucrezia de’ Medici , 1560, oil on panel, North Carolina Museum of Art One of the poems that stuck with me when I...

I began writing about this work back in the winter on a depressingly cold and drizzly-grey February day in England; I was revelling in...

Walter Richard Sickert, Noctes Ambroisianae 1906, oil on canvas, Nottingham City Museums: Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham...

John Lavery, The First Wounded in London Hospital, August 1914, (1915), oil on canvas, Dundee Art Galleries and Museums John Lavery...

Édouard Manet, La Lecture (1869), Oil on Canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris La Lecture  (The Reading) is worthy of consideration from different...

Diego Velázquez, An Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618, oil on canvas, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh On a winter trip to Edinburgh with...

Édouard Vuillard, La Salle Clarac , 1922, oil with distemper on canvas, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo One of the culturally damaging...

Félix Vallotton, Clair de Lune (1895), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris   Leafing through a book I had picked up at a second-hand...

Émile Bernard, Le Blé noir (Buckwheat Harvesters at Pont Aven), 1888, oil on canvas, Private Collection I was reading Martin Gayford’s...