Wood Street Architecture
Stand with your back to the City of London police HQ in Wood Street and you can see the collision of old and new in […]
Stand with your back to the City of London police HQ in Wood Street and you can see the collision of old and new in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you want to build anything in the City of London there are three hurdles to be overcome – first you have to be allowed […]
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 […]
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