The historian and presenter on his new book about 12,000 years of British art, BBC philistinism and Banksy’s ‘money-making machine’. Intesa Sanpaolo has opened a captivating exhibition at the Gallerie ...

The historian and presenter on his new book about 12,000 years of British art, BBC philistinism and Banksy’s ‘money-making machine’.

Intermittently mentally unstable and prone to volcanic rages, Frederick William combined austere Lutheran piety, aggressive philistinism (he hated almost all forms of culture) and an obsessive pride ...