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Video podcastMichelangelo: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A diorama of London houses, churches and shops carved into the walls of Wellclose Gaol

Georgian art attack: graffiti in 18th-century Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American Gothic by Grant Wood

QuizArt decades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scandalous portraits and subversive fashion: John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian elite. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Drag: a British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting

The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cities that turbocharged art history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastThe Pre-Raphaelites: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How art brought down the East India Company. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Chu standing in front of a portrait

General History

My life in historyDr John Chu, senior national curator at the National Trust

A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What great paintings sayThe Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frida Kahlo painting

Who was Frida Kahlo?Her life and legacy

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistory

Video5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779.

What great paintings sayDido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete

The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two-Penny Whist, published January 11, 1796, James Gillray (English, 1756-1815), published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818), England, Etching in dark brown, with handcoloring, on cream wove paper, 231 × 334 mm (image), 247 × 350 mm (plate), 270 × 384 mm (sheet). (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

15 minutes of fameHannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey

Hannah HumphreyEntrepreneurial Georgian printseller. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting showing a man and woman side by side with somber expressions. The man holds a pitchfork.

What great paintings sayAmerican Gothic By Grant Wood, 1930. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête.

What great paintings sayMarriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête by William Hogarth, c1743–45. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Arnolfini portrait painting – oil on wood – appears to depict a wealthy couple holding hands in a domestic setting, the bed perhaps indicating that they are in a bedchamber

What great paintings sayThe Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A wall mosaic of Picasso’s Guernica painting.

Q&AWhy did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?