CIMA’S INCREDULITY OF ST THOMAS
April 26th 2025
“The Incredulity of St Thomas” Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1502-4, National Gallery London. This painting should be familiar to anyone who has visited the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing. Of course it was not painted for an art gallery, but
HABERSCHRACK’S THE THREE MARY’S AT THE TOMB
April 19th 2025
c. 1470, Nicolaus Haberschrack, National Museum, Krakow. I don’t remember this painting from my visit some years go to the gallery in Krakow where it now hangs. What I remember most about that visit is my own astonishment at
THE WAY TO CALVARY
April 12th 2025
“The Way to Calvary”, from the Orsini Polytypch c.1326-34, Simone Martini, Musée du Lourve, Paris, currently in the National Gallery Exhibition: “Siena the Rise of Painting, 1300 – 1350”. A great crowd pours out through a narrow city gate. There
The Woman taken in Adultery by Guercino
April 5th 2025
“The Woman taken in Adultery”, Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) c.1621, Dulwich Picture Gallery Giovanni Francesco Barbieri was known as Guercino because of a squint in one of his eyes. But obviously, with his good eye, he made up any lack
