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History of art

July 2024

  • A marble bust of Costanza Piccolomini

    Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women

    Costanza Piccolomini was physically disfigured by her lover, the Baroque sculptor Bernini: 400 years later her story can finally be told

June 2024

  • John Boardman at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, in 2011.

    Sir John Boardman obituary

    Archaeologist who became a leading authority on the history of Greek art, with a particular interest in gems and finger rings

March 2024

  • David Kunzle

    Other lives
    David Kunzle obituary

    Other lives: Art historian best known for his writing about comic strips through the ages

February 2024

  • Charlotte Benton collaborated on exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, V&A and the RIBA Heinz Gallery.

    Charlotte Benton obituary

    Co-creator of an Open University course that had a profound effect on the study of design history in Britain

December 2023

  • Anne Goodchild studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1968 to 1971, during which time she lived with a family in the precincts of Westminster Abbey.

    Other lives
    Anne Goodchild obituary

    Other lives: Curator at the Graves art gallery in Sheffield for more than 30 years who became an established writer and independent curator

October 2023

  • The collection of coins presented on a black canvas

    Coin hoard that could be linked to Glen Coe massacre found under fireplace

  • A close-up of a wide-faced black man in small round glasses reacting severely to something off-camera

    Overlooked black actor may have been most prolific in early British cinema

September 2023

  • Uni Guide 2024 "Subject Tables"

    University Guide 2024
    Best UK universities for history of art – league table

    The historical study of developments in the arts, in terms of methods, techniques and critical reception

August 2023

  • Ann Clements

    Other lives
    Ann Clements obituary

    Other lives: Lecturer on art history who travelled far and wide on behalf of the Arts Society

July 2023

  • MIchael Kauffmann, director of the Courtauld Institute, outside Somerset House, London, the Courtauld’s home from 1989 onwards

    Michael Kauffmann obituary

  • Portrait of one-armed naval veteran Captain Frederick Cornewall by Gainsborough

    Painting reattributed to Gainsborough after six decades labelled unknown

June 2023

  • A medieval diamond and gold brooch on display in the Paris exhibition Medieval Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum: When the English Spoke French.

    Paris V&A show gets to the art of Anglo-French ties

    Letters: An exhibition of medieval English art can teach us about today – and Brexit, write Andrew Hillier and David Redshaw
  • Conservators wearing blue gloves hang Constable’s painting Embarkation of George IV from Whitehall: The Opening of Waterloo Bridge after lengthy restoration works

    Camera brings ‘unprecedented clarity’ to restoration of historic artworks

    Technology will allow conservators to use fluorescence to identify and remove ageing varnish with total accuracy
  • The Becket Casket Limoges, 1180–90, on display at Hôtel de la Marine, Paris.

    Paris exhibition aims to dispel myth of ‘primitive’ England in middle ages

    Rare treasures that escaped the destruction of the English Reformation show a country on the forefront of medieval and gothic art

January 2023

  • Kenan Malik

    An art treasure long cherished by Muslims is deemed offensive. But to whom?

    Kenan Malik
    An academic spat over a depiction of Muhammad reveals how the language of diversity is eviscerating its very meaning

September 2022

  • Guardian University Guide 2023 Online 01 Holding Image

    University Guide 2023
    Best UK universities for history of art – league table

    The historical study of developments in the arts, in terms of methods, techniques and critical reception

June 2022

  • Creswell Crags

    Witch marks and rare ice age art: Why you should visit Creswell Crags

    In these caves you can admire Britain’s rarest ice age art, wonder at more recent ‘witch marks’ and imagine Robin Hood hanging out there

May 2022

  • ‘When it comes to invoking powers from above and below, human ingenuity knows no bounds’ … a Taraka dance mask from the Indian workshop of Sri Kajal Datta.

    ‘Goddesses, I yield to you!’ Marina Warner on the volcanic power of witches, she-devils and divinities

    The writer has always resisted deity worship but she found her senses sparking at the British Museum’s gripping show about female superbeings – one wearing a necklace of severed heads

November 2021

  • Pamela Kember

    Other lives
    Pamela Kember obituary

    Other lives: Art historian, critic and curator who championed the work of Asian artists

September 2021

  • Venus and Adonis

    Subversive sexuality amid the smell of cow dung – Duncan Grant: 1920 review

    This exhibition at the Bloomsbury group artist’s mural-filled former home joyously recreates his intensely sexual first solo show
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