The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
The deep humanity of books
Manuscripts have weathered the vicissitudes of time only thanks to human passion
Old Man River
For centuries, the Po has been the lifeblood of Northern Italy
Time doesn’t fly in Bianchini’s company
Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion
Unearthly study of life and death
Yukio Mishima concealed his poignant political commentary in a run-of-the-mill science fiction novel