The Cardsharps, by Caravaggio, c1595Kimbell Art MuseumPortrait of May Sartoris, by Frederic Leighton, c1860Kimbell Art MuseumKay Kimbell (1886-1964), who made his vast wealth from grain and milling businesses, married Velma Fuller (1887-1982) in 1910. They created the Kimbell Art Foundation in 1936, along with Velma’s sister and her husband, Dr and Mrs Coleman Carter.In 1965 the first director Richard Brown and the Found­ation…

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Adolescent with severe untreated leprosy. Wellcome Library, LondonMany thanks to Will Self for cleverly reviewing a book that I would not have otherwise looked at. The medical images in Dr Richard Barnett's The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration (2014) were as­t­onishing. The book was sourced from the Wellcome Trust and the pictures ranged from the Early Modern woodcuts, to…

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