The Channel coast from Turner to Monet, saints sent into caves, Heracles in a dress at the spinning wheel, painters working on through failing eyes. Each essay follows one thread across centuries of canvases.
A new series asks whether Degas, Pissarro and Monet painted what their eyes let them see
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Comic-book layouts in paint, from a 1263 saint swallowed by a dragon to Bosch
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From Fearnley's Sognefjord to Klimt's flattened forest to Astrup's moonlit farms
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From Altdorfer's Scots pines to Signac's Bonaventure Pine to Cézanne's red earth
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Monet's home port, Millet's trick of scale, and an island of a thousand souls
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The French Channel coast in a dozen paintings, from Turner's rough crossing to Monet's storm
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Why painters kept sending saints and heroes underground
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The strongest man in myth, in a dress, spinning wool — from a Roman mosaic to Goya
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