Susan Owens is an art historian and curator. She is the author of ‘The Ghost: A Cultural History’ (Tate Publishing) and co-author of ‘Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art’ (Yale University Press)

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In the Bezestein, El Khan Khalil, Cairo (1860), John Frederick Lewis. Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

Cairene conversions – the adopted identities of John Frederick Lewis

The Victorian painter certainly had a penchant for play-acting, but his depictions of Egypt remain something of an enigma

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The Mocking of Christ (detail; c. 1280), Cimabue.

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The chance discovery in a kitchen in France has major significance for scholarship on the Florentine master

Interior of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, London, photographed in 2014.

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And the winner of this year’s Turner Prize is… the Turner Prize itself

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