by Lucille Turner | Apr 23, 2016 | Art
Do you know anyone who is dyslexic? How about Jamie Oliver, Steven Spielberg, Richard Branson? All successful people, and all able to defy what many perceive as a handicap, but which is really just a state of mind, and sometimes an advantageous one. It was around the...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 16, 2016 | Art
Knowing who Mona Lisa was does not answer the questions that persist; if anything, it augments them. In recent years art historians have accepted that the sitter for the Mona Lisa portrait was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a silk merchant from Florence, but...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 9, 2016 | Art
SLXLM A man of peace, a cynic or in the end, just plain desperate? When I had the lucky break of talking to Martin Kemp, Art Historian and one of the world’s leading experts on the art of Leonardo da Vinci, about the novel I was writing, his reaction...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 6, 2016 | Art, Science
The world finds polymaths worrying. Those who are good at everything are usually bullied, toppled from their pedestals, and criticised. Look at Socrates, Aristotle and Newton. All were criticised, even persecuted at some point in their lives. Aristotle once said,...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 6, 2016 | Art
When we think of a harem, we tend to associate it with the domination of women by men, and on the whole, we are right to do so. It comes across to Europeans as rather a mysterious place, a prison where women were subservient to the sexual desires of the Sultan, a...
