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The ancient mapmakers who shaped the world as we still see it centuries later
The desire to chart the world around us is an impulse as old as time and some map-makers’ efforts have an astonishing longevity, reveals Matthew Dennison.
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My Favourite Painting: Joanna Jensen
The Childs Farm founder on a 'bruiser' bull.
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My favourite painting: Allan Mallinson
Military historian Allan Mallinson picks an image of 'faith, generosity and ultimate sacrifice'.
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Clive Nichols: Secrets from the king of garden photography
Britain's top garden photographer Clive Nichols joins the Country Life podcast.
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My Favourite Painting: Ashley Campbell
The actor Ashley Campbell on a work that 'explodes with vivid, almost graffiti-like strokes'.
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Fit for a (very small) queen — a dolls' house with running water, electricity and working lifts
Queen Mary's Dolls' House celebrates its 100th anniversary with a brand new exhibition and a reimagined display at Windsor Castle.
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Andy Murray: My favourite painting
Sir Andy Murray, the double Wimbledon champion, Olympic gold medallist and former world number one, chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.
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Winston Churchill had his cakes and ate them
A new exhibition from the National Trust shows how Britain's greatest Prime Minister would celebrate his birthday with some massive cakes
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My Favourite Painting: Victoria Vyvyan
CLA President Victoria Vyvyan selects a religious engraving by Albrecht Dürer.
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My favourite painting: Melanie Vandenbrouck
Melanie Vandenbrouck, chief curator at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, chooses a Jadé Fadojutimi image.
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My favourite painting: John Lewis-Stempel
The award-winning Nature writer and regular Country Life contributor John Lewis-Stempel chooses a bucolic scene with quite probably the longest title of any artwork ever to feature on this page.
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My favourite painting: Gavin Plumley
Gavin Plumley, author and cultural historian, selects an unusual canvas with two painters credited.
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The English country house as seen in the art of Turner, Constable and their modern-day successors
Ever since a craze for house portraits reached Britain in the 17th century, great artists such as J. M. W. Turner have been producing sweeping vistas of stately Edens, observes Michael Prodger.
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My favourite painting: Sir David Hempleman-Adams
Industrialist and explorer Sir David Hempleman-Adams selects a beguiling Egon Schiele work.
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My Favourite Painting: Martha Lytton Cobbold
Martha Lytton Cobbold of Historic Houses selects a magnificent depiction of the power of nature.
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My Favourite Painting: Nick Trend
The journalist and art historian Nick Trend chooses a striking Jan van Eyck portrait.
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The art of the storm, from Turner and Rembrandt to Rousseau and Hokusai
Extreme weather has long loomed large in the artist’s imagination. Michael Prodger celebrates the poetic beauty of Nature’s all-consuming fury.
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My favourite painting: Felix Francis
The thriller writer Felix Francis chooses a classic image by Munnings that 'perfectly sums up the excitement of horse racing'.
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My favourite painting: Hugo Barclay
Hugo Barclay, director of the Affordable Art Fair, chooses an unusual Picasso.
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My favourite painting: Greg Doran
Theatre director Greg Doran chooses a domestic work by one of the great masters.
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Marianne North: The intrepid Victorian who climbed mountains and paddled up rapids to create unforgettable natural art
Victorian artist Marianne North braved jungle rapids, forests and mountains to capture the blowsy beauty of tropical plants on canvas. Carla Passino paints the life of a woman who defied conventions to forge her own path.
