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Rembrandt – the Woman taken in Adultery

20/07/2015 donbrown 0

PREVIOUS: TITIAN – BACCHUS AND ARIADNE Rembrandt: The Woman Taken in Adultery: 1644 This is a religious painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenzoon van […]

The iPlayer London collection

19/07/2015 donbrown 0

If you’re at all interested in the recent history and culture of London (and let’s face it, if you’re not you really have come to […]

Turner – the Fighting Temeraire

07/07/2015 donbrown 0

PREVIOUS: DROUAIS – MADAME DE POMPADOUR J M W Turner: The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up: 1838 We see […]

Holbein – The Ambassadors

24/06/2015 donbrown 0

PREVIOUS: RAPHAEL – POPE JULIUS II Hans Holbein: The Ambassadors: 1533 This is a picture full of meanings – some obvious, some hidden. We can […]

Botticelli – Venus and Mars

17/06/2015 donbrown 0

PREVIOUS: VAN EYCK, THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT Sandro Botticelli: Venus and Mars: about 1480-90 We’re back across the Alps to Florence for this painting, Botticelli’s Venus […]

Margarito d’Arezzo – The Virgin and Child Enthroned

17/06/2015 donbrown 0

Margarito d’Arezzo – The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Narrative Scenes. About 1263-64 This is one of the earliest pictures in the National Gallery, dating […]

King Lear – Northern Broadsides

23/05/2015 donbrown 0

[Northern Broadsides production, Rose Theatre Kingston, 19-23 May 2015] Shakespeare’s King Lear is one of his most powerful tragedies, with fathers estranged from the children […]

Each His Own Wilderness – Doris Lessing

23/05/2015 donbrown 0

[Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. 15 April – 16 May 2015] Myra Bolton leads a hugely complicated life. Her house is littered with books, pamphlets and […]

Swimming in the Thames

18/05/2015 donbrown 0

Over on Kickstarter, the Thames Baths Project is within a whisker of getting its first stage of funding together to build a swimming pool on […]

Victorian London on Film

02/05/2015 donbrown 0

The very first moving pictures of London were taken by the cinematographic pioneer William Friese-Green in January 1889. He filmed Apsley Gate near Hyde Park […]

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