Here’s a pearl of wisdom. After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painting.

When Girl with a Pearl Earring appeared as lot 38 at an Amsterdam auction in 1696, it didn’t have a formal name. It was described in the catalog as a tronie, a Dutch character study with exaggerated ...

For 360 years, her pensive stare has captivated all who have fixed their eyes on hers. But as for who the muse in Johannes Vermeer's 1665 work Girl with a Pearl Earring actually was, that has been an ...

Andrew Graham-Dixon traces Paul Nash's footsteps in the trenches at Ypres Nash’s melancholy shadowed both the film and the presenter, who strode round the English country- and sea-side, not to mention ...

We have all seen those eerie pictures of the ranked thousands of sculpted soldiers looming out of the darkness and they are highly evocative, but Andrew Graham-Dixon's wonderful reaction did far more ...

Part one, Michelangelo Buonarroti and his world -- Part two, The Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Genesis cycle, first triad -- The Genesis cycle, second triad -- The Genesis cycle, last triad -- The four ...