Kathryn Murphy is a fellow and tutor in English literature at Oriel College, Oxford
Depictions of Christ’s ascent to heaven often manage to be both deadly serious and upliftingly silly
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
The painter’s works invite us to marvel at the mysteries of perception – and we will never see so many of them in the same place again
To trail the artist through Europe, as this lively exhibition does, is to realise that his art relied on movement
Not all works of art need be interpreted – some simply demand that we spend some quality time with them
Warburg brought together Greek gods and golfers, antiquities and airships – and in reconstruction, his puzzling arrangements of images are as suggestive as ever
The encounter between Mary Magdalene and the risen Christ has challenged the artists who have chosen to represent it
The Dutch painter’s courtyard and interior scenes reveal his fascination with frames, grids and lines
The Dutch polymath’s lifelike drawings are masterpieces of wit and invention
Science, art and natural history are intertwined in the Lister family’s monumental Historiae Conchyliorum
