Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
A versatile painter of preternatural talent, Holbein rode his luck to create the most potent images of the reign of Henry VIII.
Alfred Buckham combined audacious aerial photography with groundbreaking techniques to make magnificent art.
Invoking Machiavelli to legitimise bloodletting in democracies leads nowhere good.
A new biography shows how Schopenhauer’s philosophy of universal suffering might offer surprising grounds for hope.
Horses were essential to the medieval world, shaping everything from warfare to cultural status.
The new historical epic, 'Palestine 36', offers a deeply flawed, disappointingly partial and waywardly remiss representation of British rule in the Holy Land.
In the northernmost corner of Denmark, the painter Anna Ancher made light her lifelong muse.
The fate of the Amur tiger — feared, then hunted and finally protected — is linked to geopolitical change.
The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language.
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