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In this comparatively simple portrait, Leibovitz relies on intimacy for effect. Her aim was to immortalise John and Yoko's deep love for one another. But within hours of taking this photograph John ...

Lear first visited Ithaca, in the Ionian Islands, in 1848 and returned in 1863 to make sketches for his publication, ‘Views in the Seven Ionian Islands’. He was impressed by the ‘immense views’ from ...

Scott’s painting was inspired by Edmund Spenser’s 16th-century poem The Faerie Queene. In the poem, Una is the beautiful young daughter of a king and queen who have been imprisoned by a ferocious ...

The first of five ‘Blaze’ paintings, Blaze 1 is an important early work by Bridget Riley. It was first displayed in London 1963 and is one of the works for which Riley became internationally ...

This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works. The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a ...

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Sir John Lavery Edward Arthur Walton, 1860 - 1922. Artist. With his fiancée Helen Law, 1859 – 1945 (Hokusai and the Butterfly) Dated 1889 At this date Glasgow was second city of the Empire, home to a ...

This is certainly the largest and one of the earliest surviving paintings by Vermeer. It is also his only known work of a biblical subject. Saint Luke’s Gospel tells of Christ’s visit to the sisters’ ...

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This enormous sculpture by Mueck measures just over five metres in length and captures a newly delivered baby in her first glimpse of the surrounding world. Mueck exploits scale to affect the viewer’s ...