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.
Style Guides
Painted portrait styles, explained — Renaissance vs. Baroque, when oil reads better than watercolor, and the questions to ask before commissioning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sirens and sea monsters: the great paintings of the deep
Songs that wreck ships, mermaids on the rocks and the creatures sailors swore they saw, from Homer to Kuniyoshi.