
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The new header image you can see above (and to the right, click on it to see the bigger version ) was my Christmas present […]
Bleeding London is an exceptionally ambitious, and potentially quite wonderful, project to capture a picture from every street in London. It wasn’t something I was aware […]
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