Families man: The colourful home life of French painter Paul Signac

Paris Letter: The neo-impressionist’s parallel families make for a fascinating tale

Was Italian art the major influence on Cézanne?

Like all geniuses Cézanne assimilated. Are the similarities one sees in colour, composition and light deliberate, unconscious or mere coincidence?

Republicans are trapped in a nightmare of their own lies

From Obamacare to climate change the untruths are coming back to bite them

Sap(s) Rising – An Irishman’s Diary on the mixed blessings of April

Irish Twitter in the days of #kittyoshea and #thunderingdisgrace

Or imagine a Trump-like Nixon tweeting away in the small hours – #notacrook, #expletivedeleted

Lourdes tour operator hit by losses following biblical flood

Irish-registered United Irish Pilgrimage to Lourdes makes loss €41,763 following flash floods

In Secret

Stolen French painting goes on display in Dublin

Drawing by realist master returned by Criminal Assets Bureau

A lasting impression: George Moore in France

The writer left the country he loathed when he was 18 to move to Paris, and became a key figure in the city’s artistic community

Meeting of two mistresses

Manet’s Olympia and Titian’s Venus of Urbino, two paintings depicting courtesans believed to have had affairs with the artists, are finally hanging side by side

A stylish bunch: why the impressionists loved fashion

A terrific show at the Met in New York shows us that when it came to their painting, Renoir, Manet and Monet often started with the clothes