Alternating between 19th-century Europe and present-day New England, this novel, exploring the ever-evolving role of art in our lives, follows Henry who, stumbling upon a controversial painting of Helen of Troy that had been thought to be lost forever, is torn between wanting to sell the work and keeping something of beauty in his life.

Romanticism has had a profound effect on the history of western art, and its effects are analyzed by leading art historians who add to our understanding of one of the most poplular periods in art.

The extraordinary life of J.M.W. Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his...

Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and...