It's been a year of lookalikes – but the lure of the "second self" goes way back to ancient folklore and the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and Sigmund Freud.

How a rarely-seen drawing of the Three Graces by Raphael reveals the era's ideas about nudity, modesty, shame – and the artist's genius.

Dismissed by some as unserious or silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal.

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers who began to capture the transformation of the environment.

A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would "irreversibly alter how London saw itself".

From its early Germanic roots to Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Gothic sensibility has journeyed throughout the centuries.

Contemporary paintings celebrate the brave women who fought fiercely alongside the men in the Haitian revolution of the 18th Century.

As a string of new Banksy artworks spring up around London, an expert reveals the clues that unlock his art historical genius.