Collections and obsessions: the emerging theme of our Winter issue. Kitchen chronicler Nigel Slater discusses the joy he gets from the pots of Anne Mette Hjortshøj. Dominic Kemp illuminates Michael Ayrton’s fixation with the Minotaur. And in Picasso’s posters we find him obsessively reinventing the past...
Among the chapters of Cennino Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte, the Tuscan painter’s handbook for aspiring 15th century artists, you will find the story of an early discovery of ‘a yellow colour called ochre’.
