Image: Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece). Workshop of Robert Campin Netherlandish ca. 1427–32 The figure of Mary’s husband Joseph is familiar from Christmas cards, carols, cribs and nativity plays, yet in the Bible he never speaks a word. It took many...
In his own lifetime, Stubbs was as famous for his lions as his horses. The artist combined scientific enquiry, truthfulness to nature and an extraordinary technical skill and patience to create sometimes endearing, sometimes terrifying images of wild animals. He...
