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.
Art & Artists
Look closely at paintings and the people behind them. Explore artists, movements and the stories hidden in familiar and unexpected works of art.
Rodolphe Bresdin: entering the impossible forest
Two woodland prints reward a slower gaze. Explore Bresdin’s branches, tangled lines and luminous openings, then find your own way into the forest.
Birds, flowers and gold: the world of Kanō Mitsunobu
A closer look at Japanese screen painting, seasonal movement and the gold ground in Birds and Flowers, attributed to Kanō Mitsunobu and Kanō Shōei.
Samuel Palmer’s In a Shoreham Garden: a world of extraordinary light
Step into In a Shoreham Garden: blossom, a narrow path and a tiny figure transform a familiar place into a visionary world.
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.
The esoteric world of Hilma af Klint
Séances, spirit guides, a temple that was never built: the hidden beliefs behind the planets, swans and golden suns of Sweden's first abstract painter.
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.