Saint George and the Dragon: fifteen paintings, seventeen hundred years
From a Roman soldier's tomb to the Pre-Raphaelites, the story of the most painted fight in Western art, told through fifteen masterworks you can hang at home.
Style Guides
Painted portrait styles, explained — Renaissance vs. Baroque, when oil reads better than watercolor, and the questions to ask before commissioning.
4 Baroque masterpieces: the warmth of Rubens, the presence of Velázquez
From an arresting gaze to a sweeping allegory, four works reveal how much a body, a gesture and a little light can say.
4 Arnold Böcklin paintings for a beautifully strange room
A ruined shore, a listening painter, sea creatures and a solitary musician. Four moods from Böcklin’s imaginative world.
4 Gustave Moreau paintings: myths in jewel-like colour
Unicorns, heroes and radiant encounters. Four richly imagined worlds from the Fable collection, made for looking closely.
4 William Blake works for a world beyond the ordinary
A dragon, a fallen king, a midnight creature and a luminous rescue. Enter Blake’s imagination through four extraordinary images.
5 Monet paintings to change the light in a room
Riviera blues, poppy fields and winter lilac. Five ways into Claude Monet’s world, with a whole artwork to explore at every stop.
Tissot's July: how to look at a summer portrait from 1878
A white dress, yellow ribbons and the sea behind a striped awning: a close reading of James Tissot's Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait).
Turn a photo into a painting: 12 old-master styles to choose from
From Renoir’s Madame Charpentier to Sargent’s Miss Beatrice Townsend, twelve real masterworks, each the original behind a Fable portrait style you can send your photo to.
Lake Serene: Your Portrait as a Lakeside Masterpiece
A mother-and-child river scene in luminous impressionist oil, composed from a single photo of you.