Stourhead, House and Gardens - A very English Style? Discover the origins of the house and famous gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire Here inspiration from abroad combines with English sensibilities about the countryside to create a masterpiece of English garden design.

Find out how the identity of Venus and the Virgin Mary are depicted in the high renaissance as two aspects of femininity. From secular and Sacred to become a combined symbolic figure.

Find out how Botticelli used ancient mythology to capture the essence of the high renaissance in Florence, a connection with the divine and to convery the ideas of Florentine politics.

Find out what makes Giotto such a groundbreaking painter through his use of symbolism.

Why were the Post Impressionist landscape painters so revolutionary? find out here

Discover the art and life of the Belgian artist Gerard Ceunis.

Some Modern Ideas. Look athow the Avant Garde from the French art world begins to spread and influence painting.

Find out about the development of ideas in painting in the second half of the 19 century , early photographs and impressionism.