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The Christmas break brought about unplanned events which, as these things tend to do, have forced a revision of my priorities.   Tangential to professional and personal commitments, my Masters in [...]

Library.  noun.  a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution.   [...]

Upon entering the National Gallery room sixty-two, nestled on the right-hand side, you could almost be forgiven for missing the unassuming ‘St. Jerome in his Study’.  This piece has [...]

For me, 2018 has been a year of continued personal growth and the creation of incredible new chapters in life.  My thirst for knowledge and cultural experiences continues unabated.  Six months [...]

Rare books have an image problem. To the unfamiliar, they seem to have the epithet of ‘boring’.  Musings begin with something like: “It’s a book that is, well, old. I can buy a new copy from [...]

Dante Alighieri.  His poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy has enraptured scholars and the literati for centuries.  His depictions of Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso) [...]

Hans Christian Andersen once said, “Where words fail, music speaks.”.  For those who have classical music fused into their everyday lives, it is hard to imagine a life without its [...]

Temperamental.  Showmanship. Resilient.  Impactful.  These are words often associated with the Baroque titan George Frederic Handel.  In musical terms, his oeuvre consists of many operas and [...]

In today’s modern world, we need a new lens in which to view society’s and their cultures.  Brian Keeble surmised that “there are powerful economic and social forces of [...]

It was the early sixteenth century, and a battle of cultural ideals was emerging.  A complex synergy of sex, landscapes, and romanticism was manifesting itself through increasingly daring [...]