This blog was begun in 2018. You can find individual posts by using the “topics include” or the “archives” lists, as well as the “recent posts” list, all on the home page. Here is an alphabetical list of all my posts.
Bartolomeo Colleoni and his Chapel
Bergamo and the Romans: a post dedicated to my Dreaming Spires students.
Botticelli’s portraits of Giuliano de’ Medici
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 1 – no more war)
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 2 – Girls are Mums)
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 3 – Dads are Best).
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 4 – Happy Families)
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 5 – Julia and Marcellus)
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 6 – the Children of Julia)
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 7 – the Fourth Principle)
Disentangling the Augustan Succesion (Part 8 – Germanicus)
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 9 – Swapping Off)
Disentangling the Augustan Succession (Part 10: The Great Cameo of France)
Henry VIII: the impossible portrait
Mantegna’s Resurrection: a lost picture rediscovered.
Mary’s books in three Renaissance Pictures
Poem on her own translation of Pietro Bongo’s Numerorum Mysteria
Saving Lucretia 1: Lucretia, exploited victim
Saving Lucretia 3: Family and Community
Saving Lucretia 4: Livy, Ovid and Rembrandt
Saving Lucretia 5: Livy and Lotto
St Anne teaches the Virgin to read
The Death of Socrates: living not dying
The Death of Germanicus 1: Tacitus and Poussin
The Death of Germanicus 2: a Study in Roman Witchcraft
The Donne Triptych: piety and self-promotion
The Theatre of a Renaissance Book
The Theatre of a Renaissance Book (Part 2)
The Theatre of a Renaissance Book (Part 3)
The Three Living and the Three Dead, Clusone
Travellers’ Tales in the Otia Imperialia of Gervase of Tilbury.
Travels with Gervase of Tilbury: 1 Haveringemere
Travels with Gervase of Tilbury; 2 Wandlebury
Living in my Library 