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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty examines the struggle between Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo

Jobs in Yeovil, the UK’s last helicopter factory, could be at risk if Labour decides not to award contract to Leonardo

How can we explain, in simple terms, what makes a great artist? This question is more complex than it seems, as it forces us to think more broadly about what art is and who artists are. Above all, it forces us to reflect on what makes one artist more important…

The idea that prowess in activities like playing chess or writing poetry might be “fuelled” by frustrated, unconscious sexual desire is fairly well known today. But writing more than a century ago, Sigmund Freud was considered radical in his explanation of how sexual impulses could be transformed into creative or…