by Penny | 30 Apr, 2019 | Designer tiles, Exhibitions, Modern Art, News, Photography, Silverpoint, UK Activity
26th April 2019 Sir Peter Blake surges on as the Artist in Conversation at The Royal Academy Sir Peter Blake It is always a privilege to see an icon in the flesh and I knew that Sir Peter Blake now needed a stick to get around these days – but had no doubt that...
by Penny | 10 Jan, 2015 | Exhibitions, News, Photography, Renaissance Art, Rome - Eternal City, The Medici
The Pearls and Perils of Rome Let’s get the Perils out of the way first. I have always been told that the Termini Station at Rome was risky , and that many dodgy people, often working in packs, try to grab handbags or phones from non-vigilant passengers –...
by Penny | 5 May, 2014 | Books, Films, Photography, Renaissance Art, WW2
The Venus Fixers The Venus Fixers was the pejorative term originally applied to the WW2 soldiers who, thanks to George Clooney and his latest film , we now know better as the Monuments Men. According to author Ilaria Dagnini Brey , who wrote the book on which the film...
by Penny | 13 Jan, 2014 | Exhibitions, Italy and the American Imagination, Photography, WW2
Robert Capa – captures the Allies in Italy. Robert Capa was born Andre Friedmann; October 22, 1913, in Hungary and tragically died whilst working in Vietnam through standing on a landmine on May 25,1954. Probably Capa’s best-known photo is this one of...
by Penny | 19 Nov, 2013 | Australia, Books, Films, Films set in Italy, Italy and the American Imagination, Lead story, Opera, Photography, poets and poetry, St Mark's English Church Florence
I am delighted to announce another new project for 2014 – and this one comes with lectures and a lot of experience from another Australian friend based in Florence. Starting with a Get-Together meal on the night before the course we invite you to join Professor...
by Penny | 25 Sep, 2013 | Feature, Fresco painting, News, Photography, Renaissance Art, Social History, The Last Supper
What a marvelous photograph! – The artist Alistair Morrison taking seven months to capture all these icons of the British Theatre in order to create an image that is on first sight seems a cross between Leonardo da Vinci and Caravaggio but on closer inspection...
