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Art history

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.

What great paintings sayThe Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533.

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.

Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies.

Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks.

Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete

The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance.

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.

Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris.

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.

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.

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.

A wall mosaic of Picasso’s Guernica painting.

Q&AWhy did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?

Naked statues, naughty gods & bad wine.

The Duke stars Jim Broadment and Helen Mirren, pictured with Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait

Louis Wain, c1900, with one of his pet cats. Photo by Ernest H. Mills/Getty Images)

Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends.

Second World War

The secret WW2 mission to save Britain’s art collections.

Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world.

William Hogarth, seen in a self-portrait with his pug

William HogarthThe satirical artist inspired by the teachings of the Bible.

Medieval manuscript makers.

Josiah Wedgwood: the radical father of English pottery.

Daniel Lambert in a 19th-century painting

Super-sized Georgians: why satirists were fixated with fatness.

Wedgwood: the radical potter.

Should they stand or fall? The great statue debate.

Napoleon portrait by Jacques-Louis David shows is perhaps the most famous painting of the French emperor with one hand tucked out of sight

Why do Napoleon’s portraits often show him with one hand inside his shirt? The story of the French emperor’s missing hand…

Hogarth: the chronicler of the 18th century.

The Enlightenment: everything you wanted to know.

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Photo by Alamy)

Ravenna: from Roman powerhouse to artistic hub.