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Find a place for art at home. Browse room-by-room ideas for choosing pictures, arranging gallery walls and living with paintings, prints and personal portraits.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Lady Lilith, 1867: a woman with a cascade of red-gold hair combs it while holding a hand mirror, surrounded by pale roses.

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.

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A young husband in a red tunic pressing his bride's hand to his lips as she leans against him with eyes closed, under a stone arch; painted by Frederic Leighton.

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.

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The Moon and Endymion — historical engraving, plate 16, Le Temple des Muses, 1749

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.

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A single tree with russet and gold leaves stands in a hazy pasture under a pale luminous sky.

Autumn paintings: 14 works in fall colour

Golden woods by George Inness, a Hudson River October, chrysanthemums from Renoir to Hokusai and a harvest table or two: fourteen pictures for the season.

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Art for grey walls: 12 paintings that lift a grey room

Mucha’s Zodiac, Sharaku’s actor on a yellow ground, Carl Larsson’s Old Anna and Blake’s dancing fairies: twelve paintings with yellow, blush and teal that wake up grey.

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A small bouquet of roses, irises and other flowers with a snail, a butterfly and insects painted on vellum.

Vintage botanical prints: 12 plants and flowers from the archive

Illuminated flowers, florilegium plates, hand-coloured engravings and a few surprises: twelve botanical pictures from four centuries, each ready to print.

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A vast Dutch sky fills two thirds of the picture above the low skyline of Haarlem and its lake.

Horizontal wall art: 12 wide paintings for above the sofa

Van Goyen’s Haarlem sky, a Venice canal, Courbet’s green valley and Kano Yasunobu’s horses: twelve wide masterworks for the long walls above sofas, beds and sideboards.

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A skull, an overturned glass, a quill and a smoking oil lamp on a table, painted in browns and greys.

Famous still life paintings: 15 tables worth looking at

Oysters and lemon peel, skulls and candles, watermelon and Cézanne’s apples: fifteen still lifes from the Dutch Golden Age to the impressionists, what they mean, and where they belong at home.

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A woman in gold, red and peacock blue stands in a richly decorated room beside a cobalt window.

Art for white walls: 12 paintings that bring warmth

Moreau’s golden sun god, Utamaro’s coral print, Hilma af Klint’s bold symbols and Manet’s Polichinelle: twelve paintings that warm a white room.

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