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January 2013
The St Agnes lambs
“St Agnes’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold…” I have always loved Keats, and he is, of course, a poet with better claims than many others to a Roman association. But as a schoolchild, studying him, I disliked that poem. I sniggered at the…
Leonardo’s “Adoration of the Magi” in restoration
Alta Macadam (author of Blue Guide Florence) paid a fascinating visit to the state restoration laboratory to see it: Leonardo’s painting of the Adoration of the Magi, owned by the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence and which the artist left in its preparatory state, has been removed to the state restoration…
Cathedral picks: Exeter
At the far east end of Exeter cathedral lies the tomb-chest of Hugh Oldham (d. 1519), with his painted effigy reposing upon it. Oldham rose rapidly in the church, and may have owed his preferment at least in part to the good opinion of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII,…
