The City and the Guilds
Stand on Dowgate with your back to Cannon Street station and you can see the entrances to three of the halls of the City’s oldest […]
Dick Whittington’s Church
St Michael Paternoster Royal is one of 51 churches rebuilt by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire. St Michael is the archangel Michael – God’s […]
Postman’s Park – the Memorial to ‘Heroic Self-sacrifice’
A small bit of green space on the site of the churchyard and burial ground of St Botolph’s, Aldersgate, which opened in 1880. Over the […]
One New Change
The architect of One New Change, Jean Nouvel, described his building as a ‘stealth bomber’; it’s something very big – well over half a million […]
Monet – The Gare St Lazare
PREVIOUS: CONSTABLE – STRATFORD MILL Claude Monet: The Gare St Lazare: 1877 This picture is an urban Parisian scene rather than a rural view, but […]
Constable – Stratford Mill
PREVIOUS: TURNER – THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE John Constable: Stratford Mill: 1820 We think of Constable’s landscapes as classic images of the English countryside, almost ‘chocolate […]
Drouais – Madame de Pompadour at her tambour frame
PREVIOUS: CARAVAGGIO – THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS Francois-Hubert Drouais: Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame: 1763-4 This is Madame de Pompadour. Erstwhile mistress to […]
Van Dyck – Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
PREVIOUS: VELAZQUEZ – PHILIP IV IN BROWN AND SILVER Anthony van Dyck: Equestrian Portrait of Charles I: 1637-8 The first thing that strikes you about this […]
Rembrandt – the Woman taken in Adultery
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
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 […]