Category: Art

Omnia Vincit Amor

Love conquers all; one of Virgil’s crispest and subject of much verse and prose. It could be the subtitle of many books by PG Wodehouse.

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Pictures in a Picture

Serendipitously, fifteen letters so it fits on a Scrabble board, Apollo Magazine carried an article (by David Weir) about The Leopard yesterday.

Crumbs

This is one of three portraits by Hans Eworth at Tate Britain.

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In Bruges

Look at architecture in London and it’s usually easy to roughly guess the date. Likewise much art can be categorised but perhaps not portraiture.

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Off the Wall

I have supported the National Gallery through a membership for a year. So what’s the verdict?

Black Tulip

You can buy a bag of ten tulip bulbs for less than a tenner and, in April or May, see a display of black flowers. ‘Twas not ever so.

Join the Dots

Radical Harmony, Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists is the official title of the National Gallery blockbuster, on until 8th February. But I prefer the NG’s informal monicker: ‘join the dots, from Seurat to Van Gogh’.

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Budapest Buildings

I usually try to avoid having people in photographs but here the couple emerging onto the steps of the Museum of Fine Arts show its scale and grandeur.