Decoding da Vinci: Inside the largest Leonardo exhibition ever assembled

The Louvre has put on a blockbuster show to mark 500 years since the artist’s death

The old master in the kitchen: Is the Cimabue find all it seems?

When a long-lost masterpiece miraculously turns up, awkward questions must be asked

From Damien Hirst to Marcel Duchamp, what makes artists tick?

Sarah Thornton has been asking artists about myths, muses and their ‘less normal’ lives

After the deluge: An Irishman’s Diary about the Great Florence Flood of 1966

The power plays behind the Medici portraits

A Paris exhibition of Medici portraits is a subtle guide to the turbulence that would shape Europe for centuries