Pastoral love: nine paintings of lovers in fields, woods and hay
Under a red parasol by the wheat, in a haystack, on a bench in a birch wood. Nine paintings of country love, from Daphnis and Chloe to the Black Forest.
Style Guides
Painted portrait styles, explained — Renaissance vs. Baroque, when oil reads better than watercolor, and the questions to ask before commissioning.
Rococo romance: ten paintings of swings, gardens and gallant couples
Fragonard's swing, Boucher's shepherds, and the painters of the 1880s to 1920s who dreamed of powdered wigs and silk. Love in the eighteenth-century manner.
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.
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.
The Hieronymus Bosch art book: one triptych, thirty-five pictures
A look inside Fable Editions' Bosch volume, which opens the Garden of Earthly Delights whole, maps it, then gives 35 of its details a page each.