Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading tourist attraction—it has also become a reliable muse for painters, photographers and more

Sarah Thornton's new publication—Tits Up: What Our Beliefs About Breasts Reveal About Life, Love, Sex and Society—ponders on bosoms in (art) history

The face of the scandal-ridden, best-selling celebrity poet—who died 200 years ago, and had a great influence on 19th-century artists and composers—was better known in his era than that of anyone save Napoloen Bonaparte

JMW Turner, Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault were among the artists inspired by the much-portrayed poet whose concern for Venice and the Parthenon Marbles has a resonance 200 years after his death

An extract from a biography of the US collector and museum founder looks at how her modest taste was transformed by her inheritance and why her husband was not pleased by a revealing painting

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an 800-year-old figure of Christ to a rediscovered Delacroix painting

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases

After attendance dips, 10.2 million people flocked to the Paris museum last year

His boundless inventiveness as a painter—and not only—shines through in this ambitious survey

Exhibition at the Musée du Louvre is first major survey of the painter’s work in more than 50 years

The 27th edition of Salon du Dessin at Palais Brongniart assembles 39 dealers from Europe and the US

Ten works are due to go on display at the Museo de Arte de Ponce

An open letter to Krakow institution asks for exhibition to counter rise of the right in Poland