A two-year conservation project has revealed the complicated development of a painting by the 16th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto, which goes back on public display in Warwickshire, UK on Monday (28 April). Research done at the National Trust’s Royal Oak Foundation conservation studio showed that the architectural setting which dominates The Wise and Foolish Virgins (around 1546) went through extensive compositional changes before Tintoretto settled on a final version.A depiction of a...

“I wish I’d done a bit more painting and a little less housework,” says Maro Gorky, surveying her career retrospective, currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery. The 20 large canvases are about evenly divided between portraits and landscapes, all of them distinctive for their bold use of colour and line, dancing in happily decorative fashion across the canvas. The earliest is dated 1980, and the most recent – so recent in fact that the paint is barely dry – are a pair titled Autumn Vines and Spr...