Art historian with an interest in visual messages
Dame Hilary Mantel DBE FRSL. Source Wikipedia. Immediate source: https://us.macmillan.com/author/hilarymantel In June 2024 The Wolf Hall Weekend will celebrate Dame Hilary Mantel's magnificent trilogy describing Thomas Cromwell’s rise and fall as Henry VIII's chief administrator at the beautiful 16th century Cadhay House, Devon.[1] Sir Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch’s superb biography of Cromwell, published in 2018, was described… Continue reading Celebrating Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy
f157verso Ms M399 the da Costa Hours (c1515); Simon Bening (1483/4 - 1561). The Morgan Library, New York. Simon Bening has chosen to depict the moment the single angel visits the shepherds as told by St Luke and St Matthew in the New Testament and has set the announcement to these humble men in a… Continue reading And there were shepherds in the fields …
Her late Majesty, Elizabeth II was a woman of profound faith and lived her life fulfilling the oath made in her 'salad days' when she was twenty one, to do her duty for as long as she would live. During her life she has seen many changes in technology, communication and science, and she has… Continue reading Queen Elizabeth II R.I.P
When you sit down to your Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners you may not realise it but you are about to enjoy dishes once presented and eaten at the court of Henry VIII and his queen, Katharine of Aragon. In America, according to popular belief, the Thanksgiving Dinner celebrates the survival of the first year the… Continue reading Food Fit for Kings
A Review. If you enjoyed the TV series Versailles, then I suggest you read Josephine Wilkinson’s biography of Louis XIV: The Real King of Versailles, published in 2019. Sketch of Louis XIV c1655. Charles le Brun (1619 - 1690). In anticipation of Dr Wilkinson’s forthcoming book, The Man in the Iron Mask (US. Pegasus, 6th July… Continue reading Louis XIV: The Real King of Versailles. Josephine Wilkinson
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