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An exhibition about the Spanish painter in London made me ponder whether belief actually makes a difference in how well you paint.

Letters: Paul McGilchrist, Jean Wilson and Chris Keil on the Spanish artist’s haunting images

He painted sea battles, the labours of Hercules and breathtaking still lifes. But, as a major new exhibition makes clear, it was in his thrilling depictions of the spiritual that the Spanish master showed his true genius

Twice a year, throughout the 17th century, ships from across Spanish South America gathered in Havana in Cuba to catch their breath before heading into the Atlantic. This flotilla carried the riches o

The 17th-century Spanish master painted with a supernatural intensity that will hit you just as hard as it did his original viewers