Hieronymus Bosch prints: one painting, dozens of pictures
How Surrealium cut Bosch's triptychs into prints that hang on their own, and six to start with.
Art Stories
Stories behind the art: extraordinary artworks, the stories they hold, and ways to make them yours.
The Haywain Triptych: what Bosch's cart of hay means
Everyone grabs at the hay while the cart rolls toward hell. Four prints from Bosch's Haywain and what each one shows.
The Garden of Earthly Delights, detail by detail: 11 scenes to find
An owl in a stranger's arms, lovers in a mussel shell, a bird-headed prince on a throne. Eleven scenes from Bosch's great triptych, each one a picture on its own.
Witches in art: 20 paintings, from Baldung Grien to Waterhouse
Before the witch was a Halloween costume, she was a picture. Twenty masterworks show how painters invented her: the cauldron, the goat in the night sky, the pointed hat and the beautiful enchantress with a cup.
Famous horse paintings: 14 masterworks from Wouwerman to Stubbs and Géricault
Painters have always loved horses and feared getting them wrong. These fourteen got them right, from a Dutch grey in 1646 to a Romantic stallion running from wolves.
Famous cat paintings: 15 masterworks for cat lovers
Cats took longer than dogs to win over painters. When they did, they stole the show: kittens on writing desks, a cat in a girl's arms, and forty-two Persians in one famous room.
Christmas in art: 14 paintings from the Nativity to the Christmas tree
Five hundred years of Christmas in fourteen paintings, from a Flemish stable to a Danish family dancing round the tree, and how the feast moved from the church into the living room.
Sirens vs mermaids: the myth, the difference and what they mean
Where sirens came from, how they grew fish tails, what Odysseus did about them, and why the French still use one word for both.
St George and the Dragon: the story and what it means
The legend told in full, the real soldier who inspired it, what the dragon stands for, and why England, Catalonia, Georgia and Moscow all call him their own.