From the October 2024 Issue Rebel Painters Paris in Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism By Sebastian Smee LR
From the May 2023 Issue Anatomist of the Night Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science By Julian Bell
From the October 2020 Issue Call of the Wild Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape By Susan Owens LR
From the February 2020 Issue About Suffering He Was Never Wrong Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels By Toby Ferris LR
From the March 2019 Issue Turning Over a New Canvas Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820 By Thomas Crow LR
From the October 2018 Issue Hiroshige on His Mind Japanese Prints: The Collection of Vincent van Gogh By Chris Uhlenbeck, Louis van Tilborgh & Shigeru Oikawa LR
From the October 2016 Issue Romanov Retrospective The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia By Susan Jaques The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757–1881 By Rosalind P Blakesley LR
From the April 2006 Issue Brushes at Twenty Paces The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and an Artistic Revolution By Ross King LR
From the April 2012 Issue Brushes with Mortality The Healing Presence of Art: A History of Western Art in Hospitals By Richard Cork LR
From the September 2012 Issue From Marcel to Damien What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye By Will Gompertz LR
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