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What great paintings say
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434
20th Century
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Why did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?
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Naked statues, naughty gods & bad wine
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The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait
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Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends
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The secret WW2 mission to save Britain’s art collections
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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world
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William Hogarth
The satirical artist inspired by the teachings of the Bible
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Medieval manuscript makers
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Josiah Wedgwood: the radical father of English pottery
Georgian
Super-sized Georgians: why satirists were fixated with fatness
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Wedgwood: the radical potter
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Should they stand or fall? The great statue debate
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Why do Napoleon’s portraits often show him with one hand inside his shirt? The story of the French emperor’s missing hand…
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Hogarth: the chronicler of the 18th century
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