Category: Art

Evie Hone’s Life

Evie Hone is related to me through my Jameson grandmother. She lived at Barmeath in WW II and I saw her greatest work a lot at school. Before looking at this exhibition, on at The National Gallery of Ireland – she was appointed to the Board in 1943 – until August, it is worth reading… Continue reading Evie Hone’s Life

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Big Cats

Museum shops are splendid places to go shopping, particularly for sculptures.

St Matthew’s

There are four exceptional works of modern art in Northamptonshire churches.

Civilisation: A Personal View

John Betjeman described him as “the man who made the best telly you’ve ever seen”. Kenneth Clark was just three years older than JB (KC,born 1903) and just as good a performer in front of a TV camera.

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The Reproaches

The Crucifixion by Giotto (b. 1267 or 1277 – d. 1337 CE). The scene is part of a cycle of frescoes showing the life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. (Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, c. 1304 to c. 1315)

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday in the UK has become associated with the distribution of Royal Maundy money by the Sovereign since the reign of King John.

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At Jacquemart-André

As you know, Charles Garnier won a competition to design the Opéra de Paris, rightly known today as the Palais Garnier. Henri Parent came second.

Overlap

I have almost finished the biography of Churchill by Roy Jenkins. In a way I wish it were shorter, in a way I find it engrossing and in another way I find it induces post-prandial somnolence.