Song and Submergence: Millais’s Ophelia
The river receives her as a parish gathers to baptise sorrow, since a young woman—carried in a current the colour […]
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History of Art
Rosary in the Witches’ Mud (El aquelarre o El gran cabrón, Francisco de Goya)
In Room 67 of the Prado’s Villanueva Building, the air carries museum coolness and a soft shuffle of shoes, and
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As the ferry casts off, the head comes free: two judgements within one Europe
Judith Beheading Holofernes, Painting by Caravaggio Judith Slaying Holofernes, Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi While the room gathers a theatre hush
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Step Inside, Warm Bread, Open Eyes—Velázquez’s Emmaus Kitchen
A copper sheen woke the wall of my childhood, and a pair of eyes—stern and sovereign with a kindness that
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A Prayer Made Visible, A Soul Given Room (Author’s Foreword)
(Preface to the forthcoming book on Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velasquez) I carry a conviction about Diego Rodríguez de
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