Cultural Think Pieces

      The shy and secluded Georges Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist, who challenged the prevailing establishment by departing from the ideals of Impressionism, [...]

  With his presentation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which by 1824 was a well-trodden subject matter, Eugène Delacroix’s inaugural entrance to the Parison art stage was to polarize opinions [...]

    Humans are prisoners.  They are anchored to their temporality.  Fated to live within the confines of their emotions.  They are free, but still compelled to think, to feel, to act.  [...]

    Simply called the Commedia, Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century magnum opus has fascinated scholars since its conception.  It has produced many artistic, literary, and [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

In his book ‘The History of Venice’, JJ Norwich states “However majestic the churches, however magnificent the palazzi, however dazzling the pictures, the ultimate masterpiece remains Venice [...]

    Upon entering the Tate Britain, one takes a brief walk through the rooms of the early twentieth century, and finally into Room 1760 located on the ground floor.  Navigating through [...]