Built in London centuries ago to house soldiers “broken by age and war,” the Royal Hospital Chelsea has lived many lives, ...

The National Gallery has acquired one of the greatest examples of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings – a rare picture, one of only 14 known to exist, by a pioneering painter of richly laid tables ...

This week marks the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), whose mythological paintings turned classical tales into spectacles of flesh, drama and emotion.