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8 Day Itinerary to Florence, Italy
This wonderful tour explores the legacy of the Renaissance in the three pre-eminent cities of science at the time – Florence, Pisa and Bologna. The tour will look at the wondrous collections, buildings and churches that demonstrate the burgeoning of knowledge of the period without which our more recent scientific history would have been veryContinue reading “8 Day Itinerary to Florence, Italy”
Botticelli – The Lamentation over the death of Christ
In the Church of San Paolino, I found an altarpiece which was to drive me mad. The subject of the painting was a common one, I had discovered, usually called The Lamentation, being the scene of those weeping over the body of the dead Christ only just taken down from the Cross.
Botticelli – The Birth Of Venus
I entered the house which was by no means luxurious, and as he took the lamp from the other man, I followed him through a side door into his workshop where he put the lamp on a table full of paints and brushes and rags. I couldn’t take my eyes off him. This was the man whoContinue reading “Botticelli – The Birth Of Venus”
Breathing room * Susan Elizabeth Phillips review
Italy is the place where any woman that has her heart broken will go to find herself. The story of self-help author Dr. Isabel Favor is the same as any other story of a woman making it to the top by her own hard work and then finding that a man steals everything away. Dr.Continue reading “Breathing room * Susan Elizabeth Phillips review”
Selected shots from my trip through Europe
I went on a long trip across Europe and these are a few shots from along the way:
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