art

Two new exhibitions in London offer a kind of answer

The medieval Church produced a superstar. It is no surprise, therefore, there were already some 20,000 images of Saint Francis in existence within 100 years of his death

The picture in Burlington House is beautiful for all the reasons The Guardian's Adrian Searle describes. She has the kind of serene self-possession that could drive men mad.

The works in Christie's latest sale often seem to elude geography

If his treatment of women or his cultural appropriations mean that we can't bear the sight of him, that implies something far more fatal to his continuing hold on our esteem: obsolescence

While one sad beauty with a mass of hair might enchant us, the collection is more like a despondency of depressed Victorian women

He was not the only Saudi singer who sang about the colours and heritage of Saudi Arabia, but he was the one that stole the hearts of its people

A new show at the National Gallery, entitled After Impressionism, includes almost a hundred paintings and sculptures by artists as fabulous as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, Klimt and Picasso

An exploration of the life and work of the iconic Italian sculptor as the V&A hosts the UK's first major Donatello exhibition

The afflicted were fair game for mockery in the medieval times, a sensibility that seems to have been lost in our modern era