What Art Can Tell Us About Love by Nick Trend

What Art Can Tell Us About Love
By Nick Trend

Explore the passion, longing, friendship, and heartbreak that have inspired some of art history’s greatest works. In What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend delves into the many faces of love — from unrequited desire to steadfast companionship — and shows how artists have expressed these emotions through their art.

Featuring over 70 full‑colour illustrations spanning landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self‑portraits, this book reveals how love has shaped not just subjects and sitters, but entire artistic movements. With works from Caravaggio, Frida Kahlo, Picasso, Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Tamara de Lempicka, Niki de Saint Phalle, and others, Trend unpacks the stories behind the brushstrokes — the affairs, secrecy, devotion, rivalry, and yearning that lie at the heart of creation.

Accessible yet richly insightful, this volume is perfect for art lovers, romantics, and anyone curious about what art reveals about the human heart.