by Lucille Turner | Nov 9, 2016 | Art
Many things influence our lives: the people we meet, the place in which we live. For an artist, such influences affect how they see the world and make it into art. Both people and place influenced the life of Sandro Botticelli, another great painter of Renaissance...
by Lucille Turner | Oct 10, 2016 | Art
MLXLS As you will already know if you read my last post, The Barbarian of Europe, the Eastern European peoples, who were once the Goths, carried their legacy of the ‘barbarians’ of Europe into the twentieth century through two world wars in a battle for...
by Lucille Turner | Oct 10, 2016 | Art
When I decided to tackle the myth of the vampire in the subject matter of my new historical novel, The Sultan, the Vampyr and the Soothsayer, which comes out on November 19th, I knew it was going to be a bit of a gamble. The popular image of the fanged figure of...
by Lucille Turner | Oct 1, 2016 | Art
The girl who helps me with my ironing is Polish. She’s clever – too clever for ironing, but she does it because it’s not that easy to come over to Western Europe and find a job just like that. Really, she’s an engineer – mechanical. I found that out the...
by Lucille Turner | Sep 21, 2016 | Art
Following a lengthy report from the Vatican Theological Commission in 2006, Pope Benedict abolished the first circle of hell, known as purgatory. Unbaptised infants would no longer be trapped in limbo. More recently Pope Francis, a fine and profoundly spiritual man,...
by Lucille Turner | Sep 2, 2016 | Art
There has never been, in the history of popular culture, such a successful phenomenon as the vampire. Love the fangs or hate them, the vampire remains an icon of seductiveness, a monster we can’t seem to escape. The association of desire with devour, which the vampire...
