Art history

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

Who were the real monuments men of the Second World War?

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Notre Dame de la Major church, Arles

Explore Arles, France: 'Little Rome' of Provence . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A crowd admiring the artworks at an exhibition by the Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington House, London. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of London tourism since 1800

The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

A new civilisation rises

An overview of the Terracotta Warriors in the Terracotta Museum of Xian, China. (Image by Getty)

Uncovering China’s Terracotta Army

Chinese terracotta soldiers

Terracotta Army: secrets from the grave

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Podcast Website large Kathryn Hurlock

The story of the Bayeux Tapestry . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman looks at 'The Recognition of Philopoemen', c1609 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A beginner’s guide to art history

A new career in a new town: The image of David Bowie used for the cover of “Heroes”, the musician’s 1977 Berlin-recorded album. The cover photo was inspired by a painting by German artist Erich Heckel, whose subject strikes a similar pose. (Image by Getty Images)

Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece

A painting of Charles I on horseback.

The art of a king

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1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

A baby wears pink.

A brief history of colour

In ‘Venus Uncovered’ on BBC Four, Wednesday 15 November at 9pm, Bettany Hughes investigates the mythological figure of Venus. (© Sandstone Global/Image by Tim Knight)

Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

The Rolling Stones arrive in Zurich on the 14th April 1967, the day after their performance in Warsaw - (Left to right) Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards (Bettmann/Getty Images)

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?