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“... Balthus’s nymphets, yet body and face are ageless rather than young. Much of the catalogue (Paul Holberton, £20) is devoted to discussion of Cranach’s contemporaries and what they might have made of it all. He lived in Wittenberg from 1505 through to his death in 1553 and was court painter to the electors of Saxony. He was close to members of ...”

“... Eugénie by Hippolyte Destailleur in 1880, and the subject of Anthony Geraghty’s recent study (Paul Holberton, £40), is a case in point. Unlike the remarkable mausoleum, built by the same architect nearby for her husband, Napoléon III, and their ill-fated son, the Prince Imperial (killed in the Zulu war), which is perfectly preserved by the monks of ...”

“... aching. In 1894, the same year that Valadon met Degas, she moved in with a businessman called Paul Mousis, which allowed her to stop modelling and make art full-time. They eventually married but divorced in 1910, after which she redoubled her efforts to sell her paintings. It took until the 1920s for Valadon to arrive. She was almost sixty, but she at ...”

“... There never has been a great painter more inclined than Mantegna to lavish skill and thought on minute particulars, and even if this is less clear than it might be from the plates in Ronald Lightbown’s massive monograph, Lightbown himself has a very keen eye for the subordinate, often tiny things which the artist painted so well, and has industriously inquired into what exactly they were, and also into what they meant ...”