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TITANIC’S GHOST CHILD

A boy loses his shoes between heaven and the deep blue sea. In ‘THE UNTHINKABLE SHOES’ Finn Cleary, the ghost of a boy who died on the Titanic, remains earthbound as a girl’s invisible childhood companion in order to find … Continue reading

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VISITATION

The next time you visit a gallery or open a book of renaissance art… what will a face in a painting say to you? There is a spiritual hush in the rooms an art gallery. But only some paintings offer … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Project

‘PEARL by PEARL’ – the past-life memories of a renaissance woman – by Veronica Knox   *REMINDER: Delphi Sharpe,  orphaned at birth, from a mother who swore her conception was immaculate, has the psychic ability to ‘read’ the provenance of … Continue reading

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He’s no oil painting!

If burning books is bad consider this control freak… Florence, Feb 7-1497 Girolamo Savonarola was the mastermind (I use the term loosely) behind the burning of several of Sandro Botticelli’s paintings, and other works of a pagan theme. Only religious … Continue reading

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A Sign of the Times?

Artists were not permitted to sign their paintings in the fifteenth century. Even the subjects’ identities were disguised under a layer of flattering (or covertly unflattering) iconography. Anagrams, puns, links to family crests, and professed virtues linger under ambiguous titles … Continue reading

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What Raphael Saw

This is Raphael’s drawing of the ‘Mona Lisa,’ executed in situ when Leonardo da Vinci’s ground-breaking portrait was displayed for artist’s to copy, in 1504. Raphael was a faithful draftsman, so there’s no reason to believe he strayed from what … Continue reading

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