Nefertiti. At the museum. Photo of the Week #62

I have always enjoyed crowd watching, especially in museums. There are so many rules of behavior in a museum and when the museum is crowded these rules collide with a general desire to scream, toss someone out the window, push the others away. With all those people around you can’t stand in awe in front [...]

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November. Photo of the Week #58

First day of my least favorite month. Ugh. November. And of course today was grey, windy and cold. But I got to eat brunch with a great friend and that’s what one should do. Eat.
 
I have been looking for a good picture… and all I found was this sort of Altdorfer’ish thing from Sweden. But [...]

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Online Poker took his Wife… Photo of the Week #55

I passed this little piece of street art the other day. I love things like that. If it weren’t already done I would do a street art blog. But this is all you get.

/anna

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All too lively. On colour, line and polychrome sculpture.

At the moment I am preparing a paper for a seminar on antique polychromy in sculpture. Not really my field of expertise but I will be talking about something closer to my usual sphere: the 18th Century and how artists and art theorists felt about the to them appalling discoveries of how antique sculpture was [...]

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Rain and wind. Photo of the Week #51

This has more or less been the general mood these last few days – especially if you add some wind:

I saw this door handle in Lübeck, Germany last year, and I find it quite charming. Crossing my fingers for the weekend…I will not accept October weather in September. No, no.
/anna

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English Country Houses. Part 1. Chatsworth.

I promised you reviews of country houses in Britain and I will give you reviews of country houses in Britain. But first let me tell you two things: 1. Never go to Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the worst tourist trap I have ever seen (and I broke the UV-filter on my camera). 2. Go to the [...]

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Chatsworth. Photo of the Week #47

I spent the last week of my holiday in Britain with a good friend. We had both been invited to the wedding of a common friend and we reasoned that driving around the countryside for a week would be the perfect prelude to a fairytale wedding in Cambridge. So we went for the big country [...]

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The frescoes at Fanefjord Church. Photo of the Week #34

This week I went to the island of Møn South of Copenhagen and visited the small church at Fanefjord where some of the most famous Danish frescoes are. This is not Michelangelo obviously but they are still wonderful images and great illustrations of the Bible for the illiterate farmer you’d expect having used this church [...]

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Portrait of Shakespeare

Seems the first portrait of Shakespeare has been discovered. Well not the first – but the first that was painted during the lifetime of the master opening the possibility of actually resembling him. The painting belongs to a family Cobbe of Ireland in whose possession it has been since it was painted around 1610.

 
Wouldn’t it [...]

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Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. Photo of the Week # 26

I know it’s the International Women’s Day today… and yet this week’s photo is for the 165th anniversary of my favourite Swedish king’s day of death. Yes. I have a favourite Swedish king. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte – the French marshal who became king in 1818.
I was reminded of him last weekend which I spent in Sweden [...]

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