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Miracle In Milan 

Explore the National Gallery's German Renaissance paintings in this exhibition produced in collaboration with the University of York.

Buddhist monks going for prayer at the wat phra Dhammakaya temple in North Bangok on macha bucha day - Damir Sagoli 

Conga lines, masked balls and nuns in rowboats ... when Mathieu Pernot and Philippe Artières were given an entire 20th-century photography archive from a psychiatric hospital in France, they had no idea life would look like this

Jim Mortram started photographing the residents of his home town of Dereham, Norfolk, more or less by accident. But his results lift the lid on life in an isolated community – and add up to an unsettling snapshot of Britain today

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes reportedly suffered from depression - and often his artwork reflected the darker parts of his mind.

Fifty years ago, in the early hours of Sunday 2 July, 1961, Ernest Hemingway, America's most celebrated writer and a titan of 20th-century letters, awoke in his house in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, rose from his bed, taking care not to wake his wife Mary, unlocked the door of the storage room where he kept his firearms, and selected a double-barrelled shotgun with which he liked to shoot pigeons. He took it to the front of the house and, in the foyer, put the twin barrels against his forehead, reached down, pushed his thumb against the trigger and blew his brains out.

New research shows the positive benefits of arts projects to people's mental health