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Piero Di Giovanni: The Coronation of the Virgin When it is a cold miserable rainy day when no-one seems to be smiling...
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The Normans who came with William spoke French and dressed with a flair and fashion different from the Saxons....
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Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Virgin and Child 1308 This was painted on wood was part of a triptych. It would have...
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Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out hs own pleasures....
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O O Caledonia! stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the...
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Noli me tangere c. 1343 We see paintings that were done those so many centuries ago. We are amazed at the brilliance...
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The Bayeux Tapestry, was embroidered on a long strip of linen, tells the story of the invasion. The Norman invasion...
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Thousands of times I have been in The National Gallery being in the middle of many of my journeys. I could go through...
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The Normans The last big invasion of Britain was made by the Normans, from France, led by Duke William of Normandy....
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Look on Switzerland as a sort of inferior Scotland Sidney Smith (1771-1845) Scotland! thy weather's like a modish...
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