From the December 2022 Issue Artist Before a Mirror Picasso: The Self-Portraits By Pascal Bonafoux LR
From the October 2021 Issue When the Saints Went Marching In The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative By David Ekserdjian LR
From the December 2020 Issue Between a Rock & a Hard Place Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment By Fabio Barry LR
From the July 2017 Issue Portrait of a Lady Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting By Martin Kemp & Giuseppe Pallanti LR
From the October 2015 Issue Striking Poses The Face of Britain: The Nation through Its Portraits By Simon Schama LR
From the February 2015 Issue All Change, Please Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso By Paul Barolsky LR
From the March 2011 Issue Three Attempts on Michelangelo’s Life Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine By John T Spike Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing By Deborah Parker Michelangelo: A Life on Paper By Leonard Barkan LR
From the September 2010 Issue A Few Pointers Michelangelo’s Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence By Raymond Tallis The Finger: A Handbook By Angus Trumble LR
From the May 2013 Issue In Bed with David The Loves of the Artists: Art and Passion in the Renaissance By Jonathan Jones LR
From the April 2013 Issue Larger than Life The Colossal: From Ancient Greece to Giacometti By Peter Mason LR
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