Month: June 2014

  • Budapest to Vienna and Salzburg by Railjet

    Budapest to Vienna and Salzburg by Railjet

    โ€œThe journey is its own rewardโ€ trumpets the on-train information screen on the Austrian Railways (OeBB) Railjet train, but certainly this journey did not get off to an auspicious start. The train was packed. No space to sit โ€ฆ hardly any space to stand, even. Then it transpired that a…

  • Marvellous and Macabre: the art of Jacopo Ligozzi

    Marvellous and Macabre: the art of Jacopo Ligozzi

    An exhibition devoted to Jacopo Ligozzi (c. 1549โ€“1627) is open until 28th September in Palazzo Pitti in Florence. But who was Ligozzi? Born around 1549 in Verona, he spent most of his life in Florence and is especially known for his scientific drawings from nature. But as the exhibition also…

  • David Esterly – The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making

    David Esterly – The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making

    In March 1986, a disastrous fire swept through the royal palace of Hampton Court. Started by an overturned candle in the grace and favour apartments on the top floor, it did enormous damage to the apartments below that had been built for King William III at the end of the…

  • Artwork of the month: June, Pordenone’s Noli me Tangere

    Artwork of the month: June, Pordenone’s Noli me Tangere

    โ€œNOLI ME TANGEREโ€ The painter Giovanni Antonio deโ€™ Sacchis (1484โ€“1539) is always known as Il Pordenone, after his birthplace in Friuli, in northeast Italy. According to Vasari, Pordenone taught himself to paint. Certainly his early works are fairly unsophisticated. As he matured, he learned to paint in the Venetian style,…

  • Budapest to Serbia by EuroCity Avala

    Budapest to Serbia by EuroCity Avala

    The 13:30 departure to Belgrade, the EuroCity train Avala, stands at platform 7 of Budapestโ€™s Keleti station. This is a โ€œrealโ€ international train – the way international trains used to be โ€“ a proper locomotive and coaches, crossing borders and changing locomotives and train staff en route. It has started…

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