I have already reported about the spectacular snowfall in Manchester, but here are the photos I took during the week of Winter Wonderland. These include portraits of several amazing snowmen and one sn...
Josephine de Vasconcellos, Holy Night, 1992 (Manchester Cathedral, UK) And this beautiful and touching sculptural group can be seen by visitors to Manchester Cathedral. Located by the Lady Chapel and ...
Diego Velázquez, The Adoration of the Magi, 1619 (Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain) Velazquez, Immaculate Conception, 1618 This painting was probably painted for the Society of Jesus and in the same yea...
Liverpool 2009 – 32, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Not far from here there is a San Carlo restaurant where I recently had the utmost pleasure of mistaking a huge leg of Parma ham f...
The Journey of the Magi was written by T. S. Eliot in 1927, the year he became the British citizen and converted to Anglicanism. Somewhat in line with his adherence to the European legacy and bearing ...
Albrecht Durer, Adoration of the Magi, 1504 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy) Contrary to many precedent and following artists who depicted the Magi presenting their gifts in the dark surroundings of ...
Today is officially the first day of December, and as we are getting busier and busier preparing to Christmas and New Year I’d like to wish all of us, regardless of exactly what holidays we will...
Moon over Denbighshire, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I don’t drive, so in the car I am always a passenger. I am relieved of the driver’s distress of driving in pitch black; ...
S’il n’y avait que sept merveilles du ‘monde’ sur la terre, cela ne vaudrait pas la peine d’y aller voir (J. Prevert) – If there were only seven wonders of the R...