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Closeup of Death of the Dragon (1914-18) by Evelyn de Morgan (Credit: Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation)

The masterpiece full of coded messages about WW1

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

The Fighting Temeraire by JMW Turner (Credit: The National Gallery, London)

Why this iconic 1839 painting is not what it seems

By Matt Wilson

Young Man with Rooster (Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection, Promised Gift of Jennifer and Philip Maritz)

Nine striking, rare photos of 19th Century America

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Claude Monet's Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) (1890-91) and Blanche Hoschedé-Monet's The Small Grainstacks (c 1894) (Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Arthur M Wood Sr/ Collection of Alice and Rick Johnson)

The 'forgotten Monet' finally getting her moment

By Lucy Davies

A Quiet Evening by Thomas Kinkade (Credit: The Kinkade Family Foundation)

The hit 'schmaltzy' paintings that divided the US

By Nicholas Barber

Detail of painting showing face of man with postman’s hat and full beard with floral backdrop (Credit: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

The surprising story of Van Gogh's guardian angel

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Portrait of Saint Jerome (Credit: Alamy)

Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece

By Kelly Grovier

Impressionist painting of a man holding object in his hands with pale gray echo of a painted woman over his shoulder (Credit: The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Eight portraits found hidden inside masterpieces

By Kelly Grovier

Colourful tipped matchsticks arranged in an American flag pattern (Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Eight striking images that define the US

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Train Smoke by Edvard Munch (1900) (Credit: Munchmuseet/ Halvor Bjorngard)

Six Nordic paintings that help us rethink winter

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Side by side portraits Philosophy and Donald Trump (Credit: The National Gallery, London/ Trump and Vance transition team)

The 1645 painting that unlocks Trump's portrait

By Kelly Grovier

A decorated living space with art hanging on the walls, glass table and a yellow couch (Credit: Artfully Walls)

How to transform your home with art

By Dominic Lutyens

Brazilian surfer poses mid-air with hand raised during Olympics men's surfing heats in Tahiti (Credit: Getty Images)

12 of the most striking images of 2024

By Kelly Grovier

Detail of Raphael's The Three Graces (c1517-18) (Credit: The Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024/ Royal Collection Trust) p0k5lx22

The hidden meanings in a 16th-Century female nude

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Personal Values by René Magritte (1957) (Credit: Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco)

These bizarre artworks are not what they seem

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Glacier of Rosenlaui (Credit: John Brett, 1856. Photo: Tate)

The climate warnings in 19th-Century paintings

By Diane Cole