I flew away t’ other day t’ visit ’nother Regis. Lyme ’t was; ‘nd here’s time t’was Pretty place Lyme Regis.
Archive | History
Venus of Berekhat Ram
Could this be the earliest work of Art? The experts think Africa may have it so;Throat of Olduvai in Tanzania. http://www.paleolithicartmagazine.org/pagina34.html http://www.asa3.org/archive/evolution/199610/0084.html and the others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines
The Barber Institute (Art Gallery)
The Barber Institute (Art Gallery) has a great exhibition on Parrots in Fine Art until April. Highly recommended. Buzz is a good magazine from Birmingham University. I recommend the article above which appears on the back page of the January issue and is writted by a celebrated academic. Click on the image and it should […]
Topuddle Martyr
Offended here by the smelly socks the late Mr Lovelace, of Tolpuddle Martyr fame, was created by the sculptor Thompson Dagnall from Lancashire (north of the Thames!). Good looking chap, wonder what he would have thought?
Religious Icons
As with so many religious icons this image of motherhood caused much of a “stir” in Merry England when it was erected in Bladon Valley Briantspuddle. Marly’s connection with “the washing of feet” in Cassatt’s painting here on Chris Miller’s blog was a connection I had not made before.http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/toilette.jpg As the father of four children […]
Sculpture and a few gems from Dorchester Dorset
I took these pictures of a few of Dorchester’s “attractions”. John White’s connection with Massachusetts may be of interest. Sculptor, John Doubleday also did a Sherlock Holmes!Here is William Barnes and a sample of his Dorset dialect! The “fountain group” is a “contemporary figure sculpture” and is in the new Poundbury development. (A huge new […]
Athelhampton House
Athelhampton House is just down the road from us to the West. It is a fine Tudor Manor House with priests’ holes and secret staircases. The gardens are special too, and in the attic there is a gallery devoted to Marevna; seehttp://www.athelhampton.co.uk/houseandgardens/marevnasstudioen.htmto find out more.
Dorset
Chris wants to see Dorset. I will find some of my own pictures to post up but for the moment I will borrow these.
Snow from the north?
We live slap in the middle of Thomas Hardy country. Here is Weatherby castle just to the north of us. The picture was taken about midday today with snow predicted soon! The little bridge you can see in the middle of the picture is the site of the Roman Road that runs East /West across […]
German Sculpture?
I am loathed to put my head above the parapet in this very healthy discussion over the merits of German sculpture, but I’ll risk it! I remember a very “Teutonic” wooden sculpture which had been looted from a large country house in Germany at the end of WW2 but because of its Nazi connections the […]
