Lace Mills and the Last Supper: A Window in Beeston Parish Church
In a previous blog piece, I mentioned the habit some renaissance painters had, of painting saints and other figures from …
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Paint, Time and Paradox: A Stroll Round the Ashmolean
A few weeks ago we were in Oxford, and had a couple of spare hours so went to the Ashmolean …
The Spade and the Neckline: How Do You Sculpt A Misunderstanding?
How do you sculpt a misunderstanding? That was a question which confronted me delightfully in a couple of objects in …
In Days To Come The Churches May Be Fuller: Victorians, Female Priests, and Satire
To celebrate all the ordinations at this time of year (not to mention the new female bishops in the Church …
The Toddler and the Scroll: the Literal and Symbolic in Christianity (and a Painting)
Toddlers can’t read Latin prophecies. This appears to be the basic insight of this remarkable painting I wandered past in …
About the Body: Francis Bacon and Henry Moore at the Ashmolean
We[1] went to the Bacon and Moore exhibition after brunch, making all the inevitable jokes about fancying some Moore Bacon …
In Defence of FEELS, or, Art and Affect
I forget which of my friends suggested that “this new use of the word ‘feels’ instead of ‘emotions’” could usefully …
