by Lucille Turner | Apr 29, 2019 | History and Fiction
THE DEATH OF A GENIUS, THE BIRTH OF A LEGEND On the 500 year anniversary of Leonardo’s death, we are drawn to re-imagine the scene in the chateau of Amboise where he died in 1519, recumbent on the small bed in the room above the river, with the French king...
by Lucille Turner | Jun 5, 2018 | History and Fiction
Leonardo da Vinci was a major player in the evolution of human understanding. Few men incarnated such a strong, early connection between art and science as he did, and yet Leonardo painted relatively little. Much of his time was spent on invention and discovery. And...
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 | Jun 20, 2016 | Art
Fictional parenting is not parenting that does not happen, although that can sometimes be the case, but parenting as a theme of fiction. Every novel is shot through with theme. It shapes the meaning of the book. It is what drives writers to write and, if well done, it...
