Grumpy Art Historian

Michelangelo & Sebastiano National Gallery London to 25 June Sebastiano del Piombo’s great fortune was to be taken under Michelan...

In the Age of Giorgione   Royal Academy London to 5 June The word 'Age' is a warning sign in exhibition titles. It means ...

Picture: Guardian The only current exhibition that I'm inspired to review at length is the NG's Botticini's Palmieri Altarp...

Picture: Amazon Jens M. Daenher & Kenneth Lapatin (eds) Power and Pathos: Bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic World J. Paul Getty ...

A child has fallen against a picture on exhibition in Taiwan, but there's something fishy about the whole incident. Bendor Grosveno...

Picture: Soane Drawn from the Antique: Artists & the classical ideal   Soane Museum, London to 26 September Artists were sponta...

Picture: Wikipedia This picture has haunted me since I first saw it some years ago in Utrecht's Catherijneconvent. It's a tiny ...

Picture: MS It's a cliché that blockbusters are overcrowded, but Late Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum was the worst I can recall. It...

I love Italy, really I do. Great food, great art, great landscape. Transport is fantastic; well-maintained roads (well, better than UK or U...

Pleasure and Piety: The art of Joachim Wtewael   Centraal Museum Utrecht to 25 May (then to Washington DC and Houston) These two sm...

Picture: Des Moines Art Center Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends National Portrait Gallery London to 25 May Marie-Louise P...

Picture: Herald A work of art on loan in Glasgow has been destroyed by a faulty humidification plant that was provided by a third party...

Picture: British Museum The British Museum is lending a statue from the Parthenon to the Hermitage. It's not for an exhibition that...