John William Waterhouse often featured figures from literature or Greek mythology... but what dark secrets is his mermaid ...

Dogs, cats, goats, and ocelots. Animals have long served as muses and companions to artists and creatives. Here are our five ...

Descriptive zoopraxography; or, the science of animal locomotion made popular : with selected outline tracings reduced from some of the illustrations of "Animal Locomotion" an electro-photographic ...

Held every year since 1769, the Summer Exhibition displays works in a variety of mediums and genres by emerging and established artists. The Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest open submission ...

The Analysis Of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas Of Taste. - By William Hogarth. - [Epigraph] - A New Edition. - - London:: [1772] ...

English art in 1884 ; illustrated by facsimile sketches by the artists ; ten full-page steel engravings / edited by Henry Blackburn - New York, 72 Fifth Avenue: 1895 ...

Formal gardens in England and Scotland : their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features / by H. Inigo Triggs. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the author and ...

Many of Michaelina Wautier's works were posthumously attributed to men over the centuries. But how do you spot a Wautier ...

Ai Weiwei has worked in everything from paint to readymades. As our landmark exhibition examines work from 1993 up to the present day, we take a look at some of the key works to know from across Ai's ...

Joseph Cornell created curious worlds of long ago and far away in his boxes of found objects. We examine the work of this American trailblazer ahead of his RA exhibition. From the Summer 2015 issue of ...

Have a go at making your own paint with eggs, make-up, spices and chalk. Some materials like chalk might need to be ground into a powder by using a mortar and pestle ...

See inside Picasso and Paper Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for Guernica to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings ...