Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Amazon Rachel Cohen  Bernard Berenson: A life in the picture trade   Yale University Press 2013, £18.99  This short study...

Picture: Telegraph Felix Salmon has written a superb post on how to write about art auctions . His Four Rules are: It isn't a m...

The Shoemaker Pot (Picture: Ashmolean) I don't know much about Greek vases, but I like them.  They are outside my main artistic int...

Picture: Ashmolean The most sensitive connoisseurs not only hold different views on this drawing; they espouse those views with utter...

Picture: Guardian The Guardian reports on a Titian rediscovery at the NG, followed up at Art History News  (which points out that it...

Photo: Amazon I enjoyed Patricia Emison's book on the discipline of art history.  Her critical discussion of feminist art history ...