Julian Bell’s Natural Light: Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science was published in May.
Peter Campbell talks to Julian Bell about the things painters can and can’t do.
Although Adam Elsheimer provided miniatures for private and privileged delectation, his work enjoyed an enormous influence, partly because of his close association with a great engraver, Hendrick Goudt,...
No one did colour more blatantly and more unexpectedly than Van Gogh.
Julian Bell has written a tremendous history of world art, one that will inevitably be compared with Gombrich’s The Story of Art, published nearly sixty years ago. Since then image-making...
According to the catalogue for the National Gallery exhibition of Rembrandt self-portraits, the artist’s portrayal of himself is ‘unique in art history, not only in its scale and the...
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