Waldemar Januszczak explores the Baroque tradition in many of its key locations, beginning at St Peter's in Rome and detailing the birth of the Baroque tradition as it burst forth in Italy. From Italy ...

The mission is a man.

On one level, I thought they were appalling comments, freighted with colonial snobbery. On another level, and with an intervening year or so to calm down, I have to admire an art critic who is willing ...

Waldemar Januszczak takes the measure of Rubens's 'Descent From the Cross' in Antwerp cathedral William Blake thought Rubens’s shadows looked like excrement, that Rubens was a fool and his paintings ...

Which is why it may seem odd that their programmes consider the same examples and yet reach very different conclusions. Jeff Koons to one is shallow and materialistic, to the other a source of ...