The art critic John Ruskin, a great admirer of Turner, described this as, "...the last oil he painted before his noble hand forgot its cunning." It is a re-working of an earlier picture and a ...

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Hayagriva, ‘the horse-necked one’, a wrathful emanation of Avalokiteshvara, is depicted in the centre of this mandala or spiritual diagram. He functions both as a powerful protector who destroys evil ...

Rosa Carriera (born in 1671, died in 1757) came from an artistic Venetian family. Her father was an amateur artist and her mother an embroiderer and lace-maker. She started by painting miniature ...

When you imagine life in ancient Egypt, gardens probably don't automatically spring to mind. Marion Servat-Fredericq from our Antiquities team explores the important role they played in life and death ...