The presentation of painting all too often undermines the nature of true invention

It was a case of international economics and politics in kettles and coolers

Two appreciations of the remarkable 18th-century artist and collector

A new book is an exemplary study of the artist

How Germany fashioned its identity through 15th- and 16th-century Italian art

A mistaken attempt to raise the status of vase painting

Eagleton looks at a critic who was 'piously dedicated to his own pleasure'

The extraordinary influence of Delacroix is tackled in a new exhibition and accompanying catalogue

In a new book out this month, industry leaders open up about role models, wrong turns and hard-won lessons

Technological and cultural changes since the fall of the Berlin Wall have forced artists to paint the face anew

The artist's excessive emphasis on production eclipses everything else

The charm of Samuel Palmer’s work is its refusal to submit to analysis

From the 1860s, a network of museums were founded nationwide

To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, a book celebrates Adolph Menzel as the “painter of modern life”

In an extract from his new book, Christopher Rothko explains how the master of abstraction absorbed the stylistic principles and emotional contradictions of the 18th-century genius

The Anglo-Dutch artist Cornelius Johnson emerges from the shadow of Van Dyck

His biographers have published his commonplace book in facsimile

The art critic, who died earlier this year, loved art, dogs and great cars

The voices of owners, occupants and users of British Modernist architecture are unheard in this admiring—and admirable—history

The Imperial Roman construction of ancient Egypt

The artist now seems more original than Reynolds or Gainsborough

Georg Pencz comes into his own at last. By David Ekserdjian