High-definition stripped the coronation of its wonder
The 1953 coronation was governed by a sense of mystery. This time, the magic sparkle was lost.
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The 1953 coronation was governed by a sense of mystery. This time, the magic sparkle was lost.
Holbein’s tiny portrait projects us into a private moment in the life of an ordinary middle-class woman living in the reign of Henry VIII.
In The Procuress, the Dutch artist Dirck van Baburen makes the observer feel as if they are the fourth member of the intimate discussion.
Pietro Annigoni’s portrait of the Queen was produced just two years after her coronation.
Despite being one of the most famous portraits of the Italian Renaissance, historians have been unable to pinpoint exactly who painted it.
In this painting, Sir Joshua Reynolds depicts a beautiful woman as Hebe, cup-bearer to Jupiter.
Bertin (1766-1841) was a leading figure in the cultural world of the new, “bourgeois” King Louis Philippe, who had acceded to the French throne in
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