How Dürer shaped the modern world
Philip Hoare explores how the artist’s obsession with science, magic and self-promotion paved the way for our existential age.
ByPhilip Hoare explores how the artist’s obsession with science, magic and self-promotion paved the way for our existential age.
By Sue PrideauxHow the composer infiltrated every corner of culture, from Hollywood and literature to architecture and philosophy.
By Sue PrideauxIn the city of Leiden, the budding artist was surrounded with industrious craftsmen, freethinking printers and cutting-edge science
By Sue PrideauxFrom Mussolini to Papa Doc Duvalier, how image and theatre give tyrants their power.
By Sue Prideaux