It has been the most gloriously sunny and mild day of the year. But the Downs round here […]
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In his later years, Poussin turned more to landscape painting. This is one of his most sublime and pure landscapes, idealised rather than representing any view of the real world, and one of the greatest landscape paintings.
This blog is almost a month old now, and it would help me to cater better for your […]
Can anyone explain to me how some paths in England and Wales ended up as designated footpaths, and […]
Today Sir Robert Francis published his report from the Freedom to Speak Up Review, on whistle-blowing (or the […]
The days when I would ‘train’ by deliberately walking with a heavy rucsac are long past. Now I […]
This watercolour landscape would not look out of place alongside the works of Turner and other masters 300 years later. It is one of many pioneering works by the versatile genius of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer.
We are often led to believe that oil paints were invented in Northern Europe, shortly before the first […]
Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]
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