Features

As museums around the world prepare to reopen, many do so with a renewed sense of purpose

The museum in the south of France has spruced up its galleries dedicated to Ingres and now has an entire floor of sculptures by Bourdelle

Portraits of an 18th-century comedian and the ‘real’ Lydia Bennet are among this month’s highlights

Matthew Maty, a leading advocate for inoculation, was also a librarian at the British Museum – and one of its early donors

Recreating scenes from famous paintings has been all the rage of lockdown, but it’s the Victorians who first played make-believe in earnest

The critic and curator, who coined the term Arte Povera, played a large part in shaping the art world as we know it

An illustrated inventory made for Jean de Jullienne shows us how his paintings were displayed

The museum makes the most of its French connections in this survey of conduct across medieval Europe and the Middle East

From Victorian spiritualists to contemporary practitioners, there is a long history of art – and drawing in particular – taking an interest in the unseen

From lockdowns to mass burials, the ways we visualise Covid-19 were established by photographers in the late 19th century

From Nikolai Gogol to Susan Sontag, Joan Didion to Olga Tokarczuk: the authors inspiring artists during a time of lockdown