Month: February 2015

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Wood Street Police Station

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So I’m researching a short blog post on the architecture of Wood Street in the City of London, and Mr Google presents me with an […]

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Caravaggio – The Supper at Emmaus

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Caravaggio: The Supper at Emmaus: 1601 We’re looking at the painting of a scene described in the gospel of St Luke. The story is that […]

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Rubens – Het Steen

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An Autumn Landscape with a view of Het Steen in the Morning:  Peter Paul Rubens: 1636 When we look at this picture we can tell […]

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Leonardo da Vinci – The Virgin of the Rocks

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PREVIOUS: BOTTICELLI, VENUS AND MARS Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks: Late 1400s, early 1500s There’s some imprecision about the date, which I’ll come to […]

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Titian – Bacchus and Ariadne

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PREVIOUS: HOLBEIN – THE AMBASSADORS Titian: Bacchus and Ariadne:1520-23 After the static pictures we’ve just seen, this one explodes with life, as the god Bacchus leaps […]

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Uccello – the Battle of San Romano

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PREVIOUS: THE WILTON DIPTYCH Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano: About 1438-40  We are looking at a battle scene – although quite a bloodless one. A […]

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The National Gallery

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The entries below all come from another part of the Blue Badge guiding course that I started in September 2014. As well as being able […]

No. 1 Poultry – Sir James Stirling’s PoMo

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If you want to build anything in the City of London there are three hurdles to be overcome – first you have to be allowed […]

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The Wobbly Bridge – Foster and Caro’s ‘Blade of Light’

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Spanning the river from St Paul’s Cathedral to the Tate Modern, London’s gallery of modern and contemporary art housed in the former Bankside power station […]