Thursday, 29 February 2024
Mantegna’s ‘Triumph of Caesar’
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The website of Antiques and The Arts Weekly has an article about one of the many glories of the Royal Collection, Andrea Mantegna’s Triumphs...
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Recreating the face of Dante
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The Mail Online website has an article about a new reconstruction that has been made of the face of Dante. It is based on details of his sk...
Pesellino reassessed
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As the exhibition celebrating his surviving work at the National Gallery approaches its end next month Pesellino receives another profile in...
Monday, 26 February 2024
Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
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I have a few years ago linked to a website which has offered facial reconstructions of the Roman Emperors from Augustus through to Constanti...
Preserving the patois of Sark
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The Daily Telegraph reports on a successful initiative by a Czech academic to record, and thereby preserve, the distinctive Norman French d...
Saturday, 24 February 2024
The Cappella Palatina in Palermo
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The Liturgical Arts Journal this week had a splendid article about the twelfth century Capella Palatina in the Royal Palace of Palermo. The...
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
The Catholic Church in Germany
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Two online items came my way today about the mood in the Church in Germany, where the Synodical Way has dominated discussion for a long whil...
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Monday, 19 February 2024
Extreme weather
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I recently wrote about the Thames Frost Fairs in The Thames Frost Fair 1683-84 - one of a kind In that piece I drew attention to both previ...
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