Caravaggio – The Supper at Emmaus
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
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 […]
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 […]
My favourite piece in the British Museum
You can keep your hoards of gold and silver, your Egyptian mummies, your blockbuster Viking exhibitions. For me, the most wonderful piece in the whole […]