Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Guardian Giovanni Battista Moroni Royal Academy London to 25 January 2015 A couple of pictures by Moroni are well known a...

Picture: The Frame Blog I don't usually write about funding appeals because most receive plenty of publicity without my adding to i...

Picture: Wikipedia Yesterday I was on a  panel  at the Battle of Ideas discussing connoisseurship with Leonardo scholar Martin Kemp, Ta...

I've just had a fantastic day of debate at the Battle of Ideas , a conference in London organised by the Institute of Ideas that p...

Picture: Metropolitan Museum of Art Reviews of the late Rembrandt show have been entertaining, if not always enlightening. "Rembra...

Rembrandt: The late works National Gallery London to 18 January This is an assemblage of supreme masterpieces, but it somehow do...

Picture: Guardian "Rembrandt is so high in the ranking of great artists that our amassed reverence has sunk like syrup into the br...