Rosalind Ormiston
30 March 2025
How the Dutch hold back the sea
A new exhibition at the University of East Anglia celebrates the art of keeping your head above water
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Gladiators ready: how Rome’s bloodsport was brought to Britain
A new exhibition on tour around the country reveals how a bloody Roman pastime took root here
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Bound together, pulled apart: Catalan artists in Paris
At the start of the 20th century, Paris and Barcelona were united by modernist art. Then came a shocking, public suicide
Read the full article04 December 2024
A farmer’s protest
Three parallel exhibitions celebrate a great Dutch artist whose career began after a great deal of crying over spilt milk
Read the full article28 August 2024
Selling Vincent
How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend
Read the full article05 June 2024
Stealing Michelangelo
When the artist died in Rome in 1564, he had one more remarkable journey still to make
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The art of recovery in Bruges
With an 800-year history, the city’s St John’s Hospital Museum understands the role of art in the healing process
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The lost father of surrealism
How Paul Nougé helped create a movement... then disowned it
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Hans Holbein, an outsider at the Tudor Court
Virtually unknown on arrival in England, the painter used his contacts – as well as his talent – to rise through Henry VIII’s court
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The secret history of a bloody nose: the horrific origins of Le Nez by Giacometti
There are many interpretations of its meaning. Are we witness to a dark memory, a sexual desire or a surrealist Pinocchio?
Read the full article17 May 2023
The mysteries of a study in satire
Is The Ugly Duchess a work of misogyny, a portrait of deformity or the mocking of an aristocrat? Or all three?
Read the full article13 April 2023
Jacobus Vrel: Searching for the father of Vermeer
The genius of a mysterious and overlooked painter is revealed at a new exhibition in The Hague
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