If you could picture the hand of the spirit of spring, like the women of Botticelli’s Printemps – clutching at the fresh thaw of soil, with an iris perched upwards on her baby finger. Representing the way the iris is the first flower in spring to pierce the ground with its sword-like blades through the cold.
If you could picture the hand of the spirit of spring, like the women of Botticelli’s Printemps – clutching at the fresh thaw of soil, with an iris perched upwards on her baby finger. Representing the way the iris is the first flower in spring to pierce the ground with its sword-like blades through the cold.
Artist & Muse (1883-1956) Walking With Marie in Paris From the moment you step out of the metro in Montmartre, where the art deco gates with their hand letter signs bend and glow with the same whimsy as you imagine the fantastical era the world glimmered with in the early age of electric lights of (continue reading…)
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Arcade Diary (@arcadediary) This early September I made my first pilgrimage to the place where Picasso and his friends, Apollinaire and Stein, Giroult and Fernande and Marie would often meet. Just around the corner from this cobblestone hillside staircase landing, where the city quickly slopes (continue reading…)
James Bowman, Counter-Tenor in his role as Oberon in the 1967 production by Benjamin Britten of of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. James Bowman, as Oberon with Tatiyana in the 1981 Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Peter Hall at Glyndeborne. Last Sunday the heavy wooden doors of Trinity St. Paul’s were opened to (continue reading…)
