Art

Edward Lucie-Smith

Kate Greenaway, 'the uncrowned queen of the golden age of children's book illustration', died of cancer, aged fifty-four, on November 6th, 1901.

Jason Edwards takes a fresh look at attitudes to the nude in Victorian art, to coincide with Tate Britain's major exhibition on the subject opening this month.

W.A. Coupe explores the polarised opinions aroused by the 'Iron Chancellor', as revealed in the German press.

Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists.

Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, reflects on some of the issues raised by the exhibition 'Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II'.

David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.

Charlotte Crow reviews the Museum of London exhibition tracing three centuries of artistic creativity in London.

Timothy Benson assesses Hitler's irritated reaction to being lampooned by David Low of the Evening Standard.

The Exposition Universelle in Paris ended on November 12th, 1900. In seven months, the Exposition drew over 50 million visitors.