Giotto
Couldn’t artists let one read when sitting for them?
Martin Gayford 1 December 2018 9:00 am
The 20th-century painter Balthus once suggested that the author of a book about him began with the words: ‘Balthus is…
Silent films
Martin Gayford 9 September 2017 9:00 am
On 15 September 1888 Vincent van Gogh was intrigued to read an account of an up-to-date artist’s house in the…