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 | Jul 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 | 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...
