Month: February 2015

  • Michelin starred Paris

    Top Paris food critic, Meg Zimbeck of parisbymouth.com, spent โ‚ฌ7,000 of her own money to bring you uncompromised reviews of EVERY Michelin 3-starred restaurant in Paris, world centre of haute cuisine. ย And not only the nine 3-stars but also five 2-stars and one not yet rated. ย Read the Special Report…

  • A Michelangelo discovery?

    A Michelangelo discovery?

    What a difference an attribution makes. I saw these two muscular nudes astride a pair of panthers in the Royal Academy exhibition Bronze in 2012 but remember other exhibits much more vividly. Now, however, they are the centre of attention in an exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, basking…

  • Jan Morris: Ciao, Carpaccio: An Infatuation

    Jan Morris: Ciao, Carpaccio: An Infatuation

    Pallas Athene, London, 2014. The first time I found myself searching around in Carpaccioโ€™s paintings was when I was writing my book on the Horses of St Markโ€™s. Had the Venetian Carpaccio ever used the horses as a model? An early match I got was the horse in the centre…

  • Winter in Florence: a new look at Donatello

    Winter in Florence: a new look at Donatello

    by Alta Macadam (author of Blue Guide Florence) The wide streets around San Lorenzo, the great Medici church close to their family palace, which in effect form a piazza, have recently been cleared of market stalls so that the exterior of the building has regained its dignity. Inside visitors have…

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