Vintage wall art with a face: how to choose an old-master portrait print
Five portraits from three centuries, most shown in rooms, and a simple order for choosing: shape, then palette, then period.
Art Stories
Stories behind the art: extraordinary artworks, the stories they hold, and ways to make them yours.
Romantic wall art for couples: ten masterworks for a wedding or anniversary
A wedding portrait by Gainsborough, Leighton's newlyweds, a proposal with a rose. Ten love paintings to give, or to hang where you will see them every day.
The Rider–Waite–Smith tarot: the deck that gave every card a picture
Drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite and published in London in 1909, it became the model for nearly every reading deck since.
Renoir's couples and the Impressionists in love: nine paintings
A dance in the city, a theatre box, a letter read together in the garden. How Renoir, Sargent, Boldini and Zorn painted modern love.
Pan and Syrinx and the landscape of escape
The river, the reeds and the commentary’s cosmic Pan reveal a landscape shaped by Syrinx’s escape.
Love by the sea: eight paintings of couples on the shore
A honeymoon voyage, a proposal by the harbour, a walk on Skagen beach. Eight paintings of lovers and the sea, from Friedrich to the Belle Époque.
Art cards for every occasion: 12 masterpieces to send instead of a shop card
A card with a real painting on the front says more than any shop rack can. Here are twelve masterpieces matched to twelve moments, from a birthday bouquet to a quiet pond for a letter of sympathy.
Lovers by moonlight: seven romantic paintings of the night
A balcony under a full moon, a beach in the blue hour, a magic carpet across a red sky. Seven paintings of love after dark.
Dark art for a reading room
Myth, monsters and dream architecture offer different kinds of darkness for a room devoted to slow looking.