Renaissance Utterances

A blog to explore the interests of an original renaissance woman; arts, sciences, poetry, librarianship and everything in between.

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Sunday, 29 December 2013

An excursion into Baroque music

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It turns out that few art historians make excursions into music history , mainly because music can be rather technical. I am the first to ...
Friday, 20 December 2013

The Nativity by Torquato Tasso

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Nativity of Christ, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome I looked everywhere for this poem online but it seems to be only in a fragile pamphlet 19...
Sunday, 15 December 2013

My Love Affair with Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montalto Begins

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Although the intellectual life of the artist is crucial, my focus this weekend has been on the patron and his concerns. I'm coming rou...
Sunday, 8 December 2013

Visions, Families and Torments: Carracci and Saints

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Perhaps it's just me, or the pernicious influence of academia but sometimes the actual paintings can get lost in the amount of theory ...
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Clare Bilobrk Brown
Librarian. Educator. Writer. Communicator. Previously of London, now in Croatia.
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