Showing posts with label renaissance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label renaissance. Show all posts

29 May 2019

Animals

Adam and Eve, 1504
Engraving
Albrecht Dürer
Love the menagerie in this garden of Eden which is on loan to the Royal Academy for The Renaissance Nude exhibition (closing 2nd June).

11 January 2019

Venice

I spent 48 hours in Venice just before Christmas, a surprise trip for my birthday. Highlights included an essential Cicchetti taste test washed down with white wine across the city, uncountable shrines to various saints, the Grand Canal at Night and standing on the sun drenched but freezing cold balcony of St Marks Basilica. SO much fun.

2 August 2013

Plastic Keepsake

An understated plastic keepsake from St Marks, Venice. Beats a postcard