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A revolution in Shakespeare studies? Turns out he kept the wife close, and (other people’s) money too Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
April 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Here’s a direct link to the film we made with Jan m.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGU...
Interview with Jan Morris on her new book, 'Battleship Yamato'
YouTube video by Pallas Athene Books
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April 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#otd in 1945 IJN #Yamato was sunk - the greatest battleship ever built, ‘when she went down, five centuries of naval warfare ended’. We’re republishing Jan Morris’s lyrical and moving book pallasathene.co.uk/shop/battles...
There’s also a link there to the film we made with Jan
Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony, by Jan Morris
Jan Morris not only tells the dramatic story of the magnificent Yamato but also interprets it as an allegorical figure of war itself, in its splendour and its squalor.
pallasathene.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It’s a comparison of #London and #Paris written in 1780, by one of the first great French journalists. Piquant and funny and we had the best time choosing the pictures. This is the detail we used for the first page in the book. #Mercier #18thcentury
March 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This minute arrived - been a long time coming, but such fun to make. #London #Paris #18thcentury #LouisSebastienMercier
March 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
versus a #Michelangelo #grotesque - is this a sculptor's drawing by contrast with #Leonardo 's fascination with moving, sensual, painterly surface? discuss #renaissance #drawing #royalcollection
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Another pair beautifully shown by the #royalcollection : #Leonardo Wild Man - every nuance of surface and texture and endlessly tactile hair
March 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The opposite of lightning speed - if ever a genius fitted the definition of an infinite capacity to take pains it is Leonardo. This is his way of exploring highlights and shadows #Leonardo #drawing #renaissance If Tintoretto is action and story, this is existential calm and reflection
March 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Tintoretto at lightning speed, marking out the highlights and the shadows. Not a gondolier, but a figure in a Crucifixion
March 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Late in the day, but the Royal Collection show of Italian renaissance drawings is sensational. If you are near SW1 today... it ends tonight at 5.30. Some of the highlights for me to follow #royalcollection #renaissance #drawing
March 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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When I saw the disgusting "trump Gaza" video this morning, the bile rose to my throat.

I won't share it. Instead, help me promote this counter narrative by Tala, from Gaza.

"Gaza is not yours to take. Gaza is ours, and we are still here. This is our land."

BRAVO to her strength and DEFIANCE. 🥹💪
February 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
(Hugo did do colour too. Here is a mushroom. Begs the question.)
February 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If that last one was Franz Kline, is this Redon? Hugo’s Planet, anticipating the Earthrise photograph by 100 years and somehow more in tune with now.
February 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Victor Hugo’s birthday OTD. Looking forward to exhibition of his amazing drawings at the RA opening end of March
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Rather nice touch for the jacket - designed by NG, we did the inside
February 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Just delivered from printer - to be published by the National Gallery as part of their 200th anniversary - watch out for it later this spring.
February 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just arrived - first new Lives of the Artists for a while. Top authors! and never before in English that I can see.
February 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM