Francesco Petrarch was the first to compose such a poem. Tragically in love with a wedded women, he wrote about his unrequited love through sonnets, or a lyrical fourteen-line poem. Delicately ...

Advice books tell the lovelorn to find distractions, and making art can certainly be a good one. But there’s also some science connecting unrequited love to creativity. British neurobiologist ...

On Valentine’s Day, it seems appropriate that a self-portrait by UK artist Peter Blake celebrating the power of (unrequited) love has been ... the Royal College of Art, didn’t feel the same ...

His insights are always illuminating – for example, the way American artist Winslow Homer reveals his unrequited love for fellow artist Helena de Kay by painting her eyes unattainably cast down.