Curious Connections – the family Stuart connections with the Medici family

Curious Connections – the family Stuart connections with the Medici family

by | 31 Jan, 2023 | Books, Curious Connections, Florentine History, Medieval History, News, Religious History, Renaissance Art, Social History, Stuart family history, The Medici

Family Stuart connections with the Medici Family Elizabeth Stuart painted by English court painter Robert Peake in 1603 I have recently been reading a book by Nadine Akkerman about the life of Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662)- the only daughter of James 1 King of the...
Just Goosing around

Just Goosing around

by | 23 May, 2021 | Birds, News, Pandemic, Social History

  Lockdown  Experience London November 2020 –  May 2021   My Father was a pilot, flying was his life. He told everyone, except me, about his war stories on bombing missions over Burma …. to me he just explained the wonders of flying – the thrill of it all –...
Imaginary Conversations – with due respect to Walter Savage Landor – Artemisia Gentilischi chats with Plautilla Nelli

Imaginary Conversations – with due respect to Walter Savage Landor – Artemisia Gentilischi chats with Plautilla Nelli

by | 19 Jun, 2020 | Advancing Women Artists AWA, Artemesia Gentileschi, Books, British Royal family, Florentine History, Footnotes from Florence, Italian Law, News, Plautilla Nelli, poets and poetry, Social History, Women artists

A.G. “Is that really you Plautilla? It is so difficult to recognise you when the only image of you that I have is a blanked out face in the corner of one of your frescos”. Whatever were you trying to say about yourself when you painted that? Plautilla...