The 10 best love paintings

In honour of Valentine’s Day, cast your adoring eyes over the sweetest representations of romance – and its dark sides – on canvasLove is patient, love is kind: this is the visual embodiment of those great verses from Corinthians so often read at weddings. Rembrandt’s masterpiece is loving in its every brushstroke. About his young couple we know very little – who they were, whether she was a bride, whether they were actually Jewish – but this image goes beyond