How the Wound Man Healed Medieval Europe
Sebastian Jäger, “Wound Man” (c. 1580), ink and paint on parchment, painted in Vienna, Austria, held in UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Medical Library, MS Benjamin…
Five new art books to look out for in the spring, from art under siege to illustrated manuscripts
Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures, Laura Smith (ed), Thames & Hudson, 272pp, 214 colour illustrations, £30 (hb), 15 May Billed as the first critical biography of…
New book views glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham through the eyes of poets and glaciologists
The glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) are some of her best-known works. When the Scottish artist visited the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland in May…
Beetlejuice and beyond: the origins of Tim Burton’s world of gothic romance and its enduring influence
“I have taken a lot of solace in my characters,” the film-maker Tim Burton writes in Designing Worlds: “the feeling of everything being quite odd…
