Renaissance Utterances

From the natural open space of Green Park to the ordered splendour of Russell Square, it is hard to avoid London's parks and gardens. ...

My first non-librarian/KM conference is finally over. My experience was mixed; I'm returning with a phone full of Evernotes and a hea...

This is a short piece; perhaps musings on what might and should grow into a longer article. Sadly I just don't have the energy at the ...

Time Passing This piece is a rather odd collection of thoughts. As a jigsaw of unintended connections, it works as a semi coherent whole...

Perhaps it's just me, or the pernicious influence of academia but sometimes the actual paintings can get lost in the amount of theory ...

This post arises out of my initial essay ramblings about the artist Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609). I am setting out...

This collection of essays is the eighth in the National Museum of the Renaissance series of specialist guidebooks . Covering fascinating e...

Fashion inspiration I've had a passive interest in historical fashion for a long time and it was very much cultivated by my marvello...

This third posting took us from a classroom in Bloomsbury to a sunny City square in Lisbon. I adore Lisbon; that sweepingly elegant capita...

Le banc d’orfèvre It's time for a change topic wise. I have a summer project to do and guess what? I've chosen another awkward o...

It's almost Valentines Day and warmth, Spring sunshine, tiny fluttering love birds (sparrows if I'm being honest) are in evidence in...

These are notes from Martin Kemp, 'The mark of truth: Looking and learning in some anatomical illustrations from the Renaissance and e...

I have been grappling with space for weeks so the thought of examining the art/science of the human body was appealing, something on a sca...

‘any classification or any signpost in the landscape is welcomed for its help in the mastering of an unstructured reality’  E. H. Gombrich...

It  occurred  to me the other day that there was no renaissance material on this blog, which given my background, is a travesty! So I was ...

As my interest is predominantly early modern/Renaissance, I thought a brief excursion into the sixteenth century was in order. I wrote this ...