Everyday chores and pastimes, from Dutch maids to the spectacle of the Spanish bullfight.
Cheating husbands and wives, and murderous heretics; images of guilt and retribution.
Our changing climate from wintry Dutch landscapes to the drama of Turner’s stormy seas.
The motherly love of the Madonna to the passion of Titian’s Bacchus, love in its many forms.
Flora and fauna; whether symbolic or documenting one-time curiosities from foreign lands.
The dangers of envy: Rubens’s jealous furies to Veronese’s depictions of jealousy provoked by deceit.