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On a recent visit to La Manga Club in the southeast of Spain, near Cartagena in the region of Murcia, I painted in watercolour and scribbled in ink the following three sketches, showing roof tiles, palm trees, and squiggles, some of the villas which make up the resort's Las Lomas Village, and the golf course and assorted fields overlooked by the...

Beyond the Cyrillic curve and the printed page, if the Golden Age of Russian poetry has a visual representative it may lie in the works of Pyotr F. Sokolov. From the early 1810s until the time of his death in the late 1840s, Sokolov painted in aquarelle portraits of the society figures who inhabited an elite cultural milieu in...

The South Asian rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London revel in the rich splendour of Mughal painting, with its flattened perspectives, bustling locales, and bold colour palettes made up of scarlet reds and burnt oranges, amber yellows and golds, and subtly complementing shades of viridian green and Persian blue. The Mughal Empire stretched over the Indian subcontinent...