Renaissance Utterances

This piece came out of a month long stay in Ljubljana in October 2017. This is when I fell in love with this beautiful capital, its cultur...

Bartol Kašić (1575-1650) On my island of olive growers and fisherman I feel as far away from the baroque as is possible. The landscape ...

Just no. And no again! What is it about art, sculpture and architecture that really makes me tingle passionately? Why is it such an obs...

Too many lectures not enough art was the verdict yesterday. With the coming of the darkness, rather than listening to words, it was time ...

What is Kunstgeographie? Literally translated, kunstgegraphie  means the geography of art. Whereas the history of art looks at art in it...

Ruth Claxon 'Nest (Banana Bird)' (2009) Finally, the moment for which we have all been waiting: Spring is here, everything is co...

Almost exactly a year ago I was at a University of London lecture listening to John Onians and in my blog  I touched on the nature of conn...

It seems timely that Monday’s class was about altar pieces. Given that Hasan Niyazi spent so much of his time investigating and writing abou...

Il Gesu The title of this fourth lecture held a lot of promise: 'Space, Function and Decoration in a Catholic Church'. In it we ...

Rome as a religious centre? Pardon? Ok, what exactly did I know about Rome as a place of pilgrimage? I’ve seen Gladiator and I, Claudius (...

No nudes thanks, we're post-Trent Catholics It's that time of year again when we're dusting off the pencil cases and hole re...

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

Interior of first chamber This piece of work has been sat in my MA file for years. However the subject matter has recently become quite ...

Chris Orr RA. On the Road to Damascus Heraclitus has entered into my life twice in the past week, both times relating to discussions of ...