Art history

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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.

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What great paintings say The 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

Video 5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

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

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

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

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

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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 fame Hannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 say The 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&A Why did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?