While the two painters had little in common, this show at the Musée d’Orsay shows how they spurred one another to new heights

The Met explores the British artist’s ongoing interest in still lifes, mortality and mirroring

The artist’s surviving Virgilian canvases are reunited at the Galleria Borghese in Rome

Our most loyal four-legged friends are the focus of this exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London

Two large-scale video installations in Frankfurt take viewers from the Mitchell Library in Glasgow to a Bronze Age city in Crete

Lesser-known works by one of the leading sculptors of the late gothic style go on show at the Cleveland Museum of Art

The National Gallery in London reveals how the influence of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin spread throughout Europe

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston explores the Japanese master’s long-lasting legacy

The Kenyan-born artist weaves together myth and history to examine the legacies of colonialism

The Arte Povera pioneer’s sculptural meditations on the natural world are set amid the opulence of the Galleria Borghese in Rome

The Musée Jacquemart-André examines how the Renaissance master’s style was shaped by his encounters with fellow artists

The National Gallery in London looks again at one of the most recognisable works in its collections

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf brings together provocative text-based works from across the artist’s career

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston makes more room for its vast collection of objects, textiles and paintings

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris shows off its impressive holdings of masterworks by the likes of Millet, Degas and Mary Cassatt

The Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin turns its attention to the women who shaped the art of the Italian Renaissance

Artefacts from the lost ancient civilisations of Sardinia, Cyprus and Crete go on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

The Dutch father and son were among the most influential maritime painters of the 17th century

Architects imagine new ways of making public space more accessible in the city

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna pairs the German artist’s upside-down paintings with Old Masters