John McEwan

Art Writing as Gossip or Sociology?

Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists

By James Fenton

The Penguin Book of Art Writing

By Martin Gayford and Karen Wright

Philip Mansel

State of the Arts

The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

By Wolf Burchard

James Stourton

Oh! The lotus pond…

John Fleming & Hugh Honour - Remembered

By Susanna Johnston

James Hall

Portrait of a Lady

Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting

By Martin Kemp & Giuseppe Pallanti

Lynn Barber

Murky Tale of a Man who Lacked Decorum

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By Peter Robb

Shahidha Bari

Best Dressed

Clothing Art: The Visual Culture of Fashion, 1600–1914

By Aileen Ribeiro

Kevin Jackson

Shades of Sin

Red: The History of a Color

By Michel Pastoureau (Translated by Jody Gladding)

Lindsey Hughes

Pattern of a Shawl

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

By Orlando Figes

James Stourton

Oily Characters

Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art and Its Dealers

By Philip Hook

Dominic Green

Victorians in Togas

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity

By Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi (edd)

Ariane Bankes

An Artist for All Seasons

The Art of John Piper

By David Fraser Jenkins & Hugh Fowler-Wright

David M Lubin

The Boy from Boston

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copely

By Jane Kamensky

Charles Hope

Everything is Illuminated

The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600

By Jonathan J G Alexander

Kevin Jackson

Civilising Influence

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 'Civilisation'

By James Stourton