Saint Jerome In His Study – First Day of Christmas
“On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: a partridge in a pear tree!” Well, here’s a partridge in a fifteenth-century painting. Merry Christmas!
A Little Bit More Lockdown Art
This is Part Two of my jaunt through the Royal Academy, bringing you some beautiful art and its relation to the general lockdown experience.
The Lockdown through Painting
Some of the best pieces from the Royal Academy which, I think, sum up the Lockdown experience. Many of us are stuck at home and all the galleries are closed, so I decided to bring the gallery to you!
Harrington and Hogarth: (Street) Art in London
Comparing the 18th and 21st centuries, William Hogarth and Conor Harrington, the collision of the galleries and the streets of London.
Foundling
Two mothers and two Foundlings. Two strands of a story woven together in eighteenth century London.
Fanakapan and Claesz: (Street) Art in London
Another comparison between two seemingly polar opposite worlds! Fanakapan and his hyper realistic balloons to be compared to… *drum roll please*… Pieter Claesz! No, don’t know him? Well, all that’s about to change. He was part of the still life wave which took off in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
ROA and Stubbs: (Street) Art in London
London has an incredible collection of art galleries, and more recently, street art has been moving our galleries outdoors. Street art and “High” art seem like two completely different worlds, but not as much separates them as we think.
Death at the National Gallery
I know it sounds morbid, but it’s still sort of Halloween, right? And over the centuries humanity’s obsession with death and what happens after we shuffle off this mortal coil has had a continuous and exciting influence on art. Here are just a few examples…
Rambling London Tours 