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04/27/2017 From Overblog

Daniel Maclise’s cartoon for The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher.

Before the Napoleonic Wars, British art had seen great expansion. Following the birth of the Royal Academy in 1768,...

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04/27/2017 From Overblog

William Dunbar (c. 1460- c. 1525)

The bank was green, the brook was full of breamis, The stanneris clear as stern in frosty nicht. William Dunbar...

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04/26/2017 From Overblog

Glasgow. Scotland Circus of Horrors

I was walking to the church when I saw this large delivery van uploading its theatrical goods inside the King's...

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04/26/2017 From Overblog

John Ogilvie Scottish Jesuit

John Ogilvie, was a Scottish Jesuit who was martyred in 1615. Ogilvie came from an aristocratic family dominated...

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04/26/2017 From Overblog

Andrew John Young 1885-1971)

Stars lay like yellow pollen That from a flower has fallen; And single stars I saw Crossing themselves in awe;...

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04/25/2017 From Overblog

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Lorenzetti was highly influenced by both Byzantine Art and classical art forms, and used these to create a unique...

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04/24/2017 From Overblog

Scots-Italians

I am going to eat here in the King's Café on Elmbank street once I have finished here in the Mitchell Library in...

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04/23/2017 From Overblog

Italian art inspired by Byzantine

The Byzantine Empire is the conventional name of a medieval Christian and Greek-speaking state. The Byzantine people...

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04/23/2017 From Overblog

Scottish breakfast in Glasgow

Scottish breakfast. Always a pleasure to have a nice breakfast Not everyday, but once every so often there is the...

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04/22/2017 From Overblog

Italian painting

in 1440 through 1540 female portraiture in Florence thrived beyond the realm of rulers and their consorts to encompass...

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