Famous dog paintings: 14 masterworks every dog lover should know
From a Renaissance prince's hound to Landseer's mourning collie, these are the dogs great painters could not leave out, and what their pictures say about the people who loved them.
Art Stories
Stories behind the art: extraordinary artworks, the stories they hold, and ways to make them yours.
Real couples in art: six portraits of husbands and wives
A honeymoon walk, a painter and his wife on a Danish beach, a picnic by a red canoe. Six real marriages in paint, and what happened next.
Choosing mythological wall art for your home
Choose a narrative image by its story, movement and detail, then consider how it will live in your room.
Paintings of farewell: eight lovers parting, from Verona to the railway
A soldier at the door, a knight's shadow on a wall, two hands through a garden railing. Eight farewells in art, and the stories behind them.
Famous kisses in art: ten paintings of the first, the stolen and the last
A kiss through a window, across a supper table, at a train door and in a rose garden. Ten painted kisses, from Rossetti to Zorn.
Knights and ladies: ten paintings of medieval romance
Armour and veils, quests and farewells, enchantresses in the forest. The Victorians' dream of chivalric love, from Tristan to La Belle Dame sans Merci.
Paolo and Francesca in four paintings: Dante's doomed lovers
One kiss over a book, one sword, one eternity in the wind. How four painters from 1820 to 1905 told the most famous love story in Dante's Inferno.
Ten famous love stories in art, and the paintings that tell them
Paolo and Francesca, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Abelard and Heloise. The great love stories of literature and legend, each told in a single painting.
Bosch's Temptation of Saint Anthony: a fish boat, a heron ship and other wonders
Ships that are birds and a boat that is a fish. Five prints from Bosch's Lisbon triptych, and the story behind each.