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The Telegraph today.

Jean Fouquet, The Melun Diptych: Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim, 1452,
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.

The Madonna is king’s mistress, Agnes Sorel, famous for her impressive embonpoint.

'The Soul of the Rose’ 1908 by
John William Waterhouse

The Houses of Parliament are still searched today by the Yeomen of the Guard before the state opening. The idea is to ensure no modern-day Guy Fawkes is hiding in the cellars with a bomb, although it is more ceremonial than serious. And they do it with lanterns.

(Telegraph.)

John Sell Cotman – St. Benet’s Abbey
c.1810. 38×48

Location: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

This is for anyone who who ever thought watercolour was insipid.

#johnsellcotman #watercolour #Britishart #Englishlandscape #landscape #stormysky #storm

Sir John Lavery
'Alice'

@HobanGirl @G_Dolman @debjshaw @ampomata @ChrisPopeWrites @EricDrawsArt We were given curiosity in order to try and untie life's Gordian knot.

I dreamt once that I died and saw God. I asked Him to explain the meaning of life and He told me.
I woke up laughing uproariously.

But no, I don't remember what He said!

October at the Wallace Collection, London.
★★★★★ "Staggering" - The Observer

★★★★ “Exhilarating” - The Daily Telegraph⁠

★★★★ “A significant moment” - The Times ⁠

★★★★ “A fabulous show of portraits by a true Dutch master” – Evening Standard

'For in and out, above, about, below
'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow Show,
Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.'

Rudbaiyat of Omar Khayyam, (1048 - 1123) Persian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet

Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason
The Public Domain Review