Renaissance Utterances

'suspended' It has been an orgy of art since I arrived back in London just over a week ago. Russian/Communism inspired exhibitio...

Many high profile reviews of Beyond Caravaggio have criticised it because it only contains six works by the master himself. However as the e...

Thanks largely to a rediscovery of a love of free form dancing enhanced by fermented sugar beverages, art and writing has been rather negl...

High definition colour feels like an entirely modern invention. Saturated manipulated photos, flat screen LCD tvs and 3D cinematic experi...

Altdorfer 'Landscape' 1518-20 It seems you can travel miles in search of a certain historical figure, and not realise that usefu...

These notes were quite difficult to write up because in the end I wasn't sure what I wanted to say. I'm seriously regretting not g...

My thought soars not so high ; though duly bent In reverence, and awe, and long attent, To study Nature and the works and ways, So wondrous,...

Now I am ready to to tell how bodies are changed i nto different bodies So starts Ted Hughes's translation of the Metamorphoses. This...

It seems that the National Gallery is busily knitting threads between all the different London arts. There is the incredible Metamorphosis...