Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism

On a violet background, vertical lines of green bamboo with branches of flowering trees between them. In the foreground, large reishi mushrooms in blue or brown, sharply outlined i...

Design composed of very schematic cherry blossoms in grey and pale yellow together with silhouettes of bats in flight, in green and blue with geometric decoration inside (grids). T...

On a black background, a set of white round elements outlined in blue, grey and green, with a central hole, joined together by groups of five with red cords. \The groups with the ...

View of Bath taken from the Southern Hill, showing its development as a Georgian city. During the 18th century it became a fashionable pleasure resort and as such was massively reb...

Christ holding the cross was a motif that El Greco derived from the narrative of Christ’s Passion, creating an isolated image that seems to have been extremely popular with his cli...

The macabre, nightmarish bodily distortions in Bacon’s paintings are reflections of the violence and desolation he saw as endemic to the human condition. Although links with Surrea...