Month: March 2024

  • Tired of London?

    Tired of London?

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great lexicographer, journalist, conversationalist, inveterate London pub-goer and general good egg, famously remarked that if a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. Another quote of his on London is less well known: โ€œSir, if you wish to have a just notion of…

  • Most rare in marble portraits

    Most rare in marble portraits

    The above title is a quote from Giorgio Vasari. They are the words he used, in his famous Lives of the Artists, to describe Alessandro Vittoria (1525โ€“1608), a man who became one of the greatest Italian sculptors of his age. Vittoria was born in Trento, a city in the far…

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