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Hands Across Three Centuries

Carole Angier ARTEMISIA by Anna Banti Serpent's Tail, £7.99, pp. 256, ISBN 1852427663 A rtemisia Gentileschi (b. 1593) is a feminist icon of such power that she has penetrated......

Avery Different Sort Of Balfour

Jonathan Keates JABEZ : THE RISE AND FALL OF A VICTORIAN ROGUE by David McKie Atlantic Books, £12.99, pp. 284, ISBN 1843541300 F v ery one — well, almost everyone — knows that......

In The Royal Academy

In primary colours like posies of spring flowers clumps of schoolchildren sit, cross-legged, listening to their teachers. Tezcatlipoca glowers on them, god of the Toltec......