These are just some of the startling details to be discovered in the works of Bartolome de Cardenas, Spain’s greatest master of 15th century Gothic art. Known as ‘El Bermejo’ for his ruddy ...

It was due to financial difficulties that in the year 1925, Witkacy decided to give up ‘pure’ or entirely artistic painting for what he considered ‘applied’ art – creating portraits on commission. In ...

It was initially a style of courtly sophistication, but somewhat more robust versions spread to art commissioned by the emerging mercantile classes and the smaller nobility. In Northern Europe "Late ...

The more circumscribed notion of art and the artist associated with the ‘autonomisation’ of art around 1800 is here tied to the emergence of Gothic forms and themes within painting. It is argued that ...

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Gothic architecture, or the 'modern style' as it was known 850 years ago, is immensely popular among architectural historians. Broadcaster and art historian Dan Cruickshank appraises its on-screen ...

The impossible spaces produced by the fantasy of the artist deliberately defy any rule of architecture. In these paradoxical and irrational spatial constructions, gothic arches are supported by piers ...

Stephen Mangan launches a new search for a star portrait artist, alongside returning judges, artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, independent curator Kathleen Soriano and art historian Kate Bryan.

Stephen Mangan launches a new search for a star portrait artist, alongside returning judges, artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, independent curator Kathleen Soriano and ...

While in art and literature, the Gothic allowed Horace Walpole, Bram Stoker and Dickens to capture the terror, weirdness and social ills that plagued Victorian Britain. Dan Cruickshank and the ...