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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

The Face of Fortune - Black & White

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Artist Unknown, 16th Century Italian Inspired by Petrarch (1304 –1374) Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul a self-help book which rem...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

One in almost every room…

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The National Gallery’s Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Europe  (19 Mar to 15 Jun 2014) is , for me, quite simply the most bril...
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Saturday, 1 March 2014

Moses and his Nubian Wife

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Jacob Jordaens,  Moses and his Nubian Wife , 1650 This picture is outside my period so, let me make the usual art historian’s caveat wh...
Monday, 30 December 2013

Epiphany 2014 - 6th Jan - Celebration

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To celebrate Epiphany 2014 I will be giving an introduction to two Adorations from the collection in the National Gallery. We will meet at 2...
Thursday, 21 November 2013

Review: Onyeka (2013) Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England Their Presence Status and Origins.

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Packed House of Commons Meeting Room 11 6th Nov 2013 I attended a packed Commons Meeting room a few weeks ago to hear Onyeka give a...
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Saturday, 16 November 2013

Why I write this blog.....

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Through my Image&Reality Black Africans in Renaissance England  co-presenter Dr Miranda Kaufmann’s thoughtful, polemical re...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Why the Blackman in the 1241 Domesday Abbreviato ?

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Illuminated capital letter ‘I’ taken from the Domesday Abbreviatio entry for Derbyshire, possibly c.1241; National Archive Catalogue ref...
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