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Saturday, 18 February 2012
The Shakespeare Death Mask and the Flower Portrait
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The Sculptor of the Stratford Bust before the Finished Work(1857) by Henry Wallis in which Ben Jonson shows Shakespeare's death ma...
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
Romulus and the Sabine Women
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The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) by Jacques-Louis David Romulus, and his twin brother Remus, are the traditional, mytholog...
Sunday, 12 February 2012
La Belle Époque - Vive la bagatelle !
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There had never been a time like it. At least, that's what they said. A time in which the well-to-do threw off the mundane constrain...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
King Bladud of Bath - Ancient Britain's pioneer aeronaut
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From the second edition of Portraits des Roys d'Angleterre engraved by Leonard Gaultier Bladud was a descendant of Brute the Troj...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Shakespeare's London: The Liberty of the Clink and Paris Garden
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In the time of Shakespeare, pleasure-seeking Londoners headed south across the river to Southwark in the county of Surrey, an enterta...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 - 1538) and the Battle of Alexander at Issus
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The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1529) by Albrecht Altdorfer German born Albrecht Altdorfer lived most (if not all) of his life in R...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012
Gustav-Adolf Mossa (1883-1971)
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Les Mortes (The Dead Women) -1906 Gustav-Adolf Mossa was born in Nice, the son of Alexis Mossa (1844-1926), himself an artist of num...
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