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Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Carlo Saraceni 1579-1620 | @Sheffield Museums You may struggle to find the story of Judith in your...

Portrait de joueurs d'echecs / Portrait of Chess Players by Marcel Duchamp, 1911 | Oil on canvas | Philadelphia Museum of Art Truly I...

1931| Oil on Canvas | Mark Lancelot Symons (1886–1935) | Held in a private collection This is one of a series of paintings that Symons...

Much has been written about the creative talents of Lewis Capaldi and the well-documented challenges he has faced in the last 12 months....

Elasticity by Umberto Boccioni, 1912 Oil on canvas, 100x100cm: Museo del Novecento, Milan. Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a...

[Picture: Painting (unknown) seen in El Meson D’Bari restaurant in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic] I would make a terrible art critic....

I went to Church on Sunday. Before the service they served us coffee. Halfway through the service they served us coffee. And after the...

Mark Lancelot Symons | oil on canvas | 1933 | Reading Museum I spotted this painting on a trip to Reading where we had gone to see a 19th...

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. (Revelation 22:13). The Uncertainty of the Poet by...

[Picture: “The Problem We All Live With”, Norman Rockwell, 1964] Ruby Bridges is six. It’s 14th November 1960 and it’s her first day at...

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus...

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Un bar aux Folies Bergère) by Édouard Manet: 1882 | Oil on canvas | Courtauld Gallery, London I can remember...

You may know that one of the hymnwriters I fell in love with as a very small child was Christina Georgina Rossetti. I loved her exotic...