Culture
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Visiting Marble House, Newport
Let’s continue to visit the Newport Mansions, Rhode Island with this post exploring Marble House. read more
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Mini-Post | The Getty Villa
“One could say, ‘Go to Pompeii and Herculaneum and see Roman villas the way they are now – then go to Malibu and see the way they were in ancient times.’” J. Paul Getty, Los Angeles Times, 1974 The Getty Villa was the brainchild of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), who made his fortune in oil read more
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Princess Ka’iulani (1875-1899)
Princess Ka’iulani in 1897, Unknown Author. Image Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Hawaii State Archives PP-96-8-022. Happy 146th birthday to Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawaii! Born Victoria Kawēkiu Ka‘iulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn on this day in 1875, Ka‘iulani was the daughter of Princess Miriam Likelike and Archibald Scott Cleghorn (a Scottish businessman who became a Hawaiian citizen). Ka‘iulani’s birthday read more
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Visiting the Breakers
Welcome to the Breakers, Newport, RI! This is the first post in a series of three I’ll be doing on the Newport mansions, and I thought I’d begin with the most famous one. Sit back, relax, museum from home and take a little walk with me through this huge palace of a “summer cottage” right read more
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Mini-Post | Van Gogh & Sunflowers
Van Gogh (1853-1890) painted sunflowers many times across his decade-long career –not only did he like the happiness they evoked, and that they were more coarse than the flowers other artists typically included in still life, they gave him chance to experiment with colour more than other still life paintings. Van Gogh became so known read more
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Cover Reveal | “Bloomsbury Girls”, by Natalie Jenner
Happy Friday everybody! It has been a hot minute since I posted… but I have something really exciting to share today to mark a return to blogging more regularly (I have a host of mini-posts ready to share with you all!). Last year, I had the pleasure of receiving an advanced review copy of Natalie read more
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The First American Gold Rush
A little while ago, we went up to the North Georgia mountains to explore the trails and wineries, but also to visit Dahlonega, which is where the first American Gold Rush took place. I’ve been wanting to write about it and its history for a long while, finally sitting down to put the finishing touches read more
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Moving to Savannah…
So two weeks ago, we swapped Sheffield and the UK for Savannah, Georgia, and the US. We’ve moved for my fiancé’s job and I’m going to spend the first couple of months finishing off my PhD. This move has been a long time in the making and with that, packing up our flat and trying read more
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What women really thought about “Grand Tourists” in the eighteenth century…
A Caprice Landscape with Ruins, in the style of Bernardo Bellotto, 1740-1800, oil on canvas (National Gallery, London, NG 135) When reading about the eighteenth century and the treasures that came into the country house, it might seem a little bit like only young men were travelling to the continent to undertake the rite of read more
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Titian and the Alabaster Room
Bacchus and Ariadne, by Titian. 1520-3, oil on canvas (National Gallery, London, NG35) I haven’t written a blog in a while and inspiration struck recently when I was flicking through some art books (even though I don’t technically do History of Art anymore, I can’t let it go!) and rediscovered my favourite painting, Bacchus and read more
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Dr. Lizzie Rogers 