Piero della Francesca's Renaissance masterpiece "The Baptism of Christ" flanked by two of David Hockney's colourful works. The idea, said Eddy Frankel in Time Out, is that you slow right down and ...

Many a soul has perished at what the critic Lionel Trilling called the bloody crossroads where art and politics meet – Trilling spoke of literature and politics, but for our purposes we shall broaden ...

Martin Gayford: When did you first see Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ? David Hockney: At home, we had some books that must have been from just before the war, about people and places.

Here, Piero della Francesca, Jacopo Bellini and Andrea Mantegna decorated the palaces of the House of Este. The humanist concept of the 'ideal city' came to life here in the neighbourhoods built from ...

The first, vaguely historical, with padded, hoop skirts that were inspired by Piero della Francesca’s depiction of “Madonna del Parto” depicting the Virgin Mary as pregnant. The other ...