Raphael

  • Review: “The Woman in the Painting”, by Kerry Postle

    Review: “The Woman in the Painting”, by Kerry Postle

    Kerry Postle’s latest historical novel follows the final twelve years of the life of Raphael the painter and explores his relationship with La Fornarina, Margarita Luti. read more

  • Raphael and La Fornarina

    Raphael and La Fornarina

    Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, Accompanied by La Fornarina, Preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia by J. M. W. Turner, exhibited 1820, oil on canvas (Tate Britain, N00503) For the three hundredth anniversary of Raphael’s death, which occurred on Good Friday in 1520 (supposedly the artist’s thirty-seventh birthday), J. M. W. Turner read more

  • A Venetian Palazzo in Boston: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    A Venetian Palazzo in Boston: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    A museum created out of the pursuit of pleasure and left behind for public enjoyment and education. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Museum in Boston is a really unique and wonderful place which arguably, almost a century since she died, Isabella still exerts a certain control over. When she left the museum behind, along with an endowment read more

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

    National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

    A whistle-stop tour of a few of my favourite things in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.! read more

  • Michelangelo and Sebastiano: A Renaissance Friendship

    Michelangelo and Sebastiano: A Renaissance Friendship

    The general perception of Michelangelo is of a highly introspective, tortured and cantankerous genius who worked independently to produce some of the most famous works in Western Art. So it may seem slightly incongruous that the National Gallery’s latest exhibition, Michelangelo & Sebastiano, is actually a celebration of the friendship Michelangelo forged with the Venetian read more

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