The Renaissance - Lucille Turner
A Sketch of Leonardo

A Sketch of Leonardo

by | 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...

The ‘Barbarian’ of Europe

by | 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...