Rubens – Het Steen
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
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 […]
Titian – Bacchus and Ariadne
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 […]
Uccello – the Battle of San Romano
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 National Gallery
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
If you want to build anything in the City of London there are three hurdles to be overcome – first you have to be allowed […]
The Wobbly Bridge – Foster and Caro’s ‘Blade of Light’
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 […]
The Moorgate Lighthouse
Stroll up Moorgate Street from the Bank of England, and about a third of the way along on your right, look up and, set into […]
Police Telephone Post
This splendid object is over the road from the entrance to Postman’s Park in St Martin’s le Grand. It’s a reminder of a time when the […]
London from the Shard
The new header image you can see above (and to the right, click on it to see the bigger version ) was my Christmas present […]