A cover of the Russian edition of tales by Gianni Rodari La Freccia Azzurra (The Adventures of the Blue Arrow in English) is one of the books by the Italian author Gianni Rodari that I adored as a chi...
Alessandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, 1475/76 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy) This painting was commissioned to Botticelli by a Florentine Gaspar di Zanobi del Lama for the church of Santa M...
Although the themes of Adoration and the journey of the Magi seem to be more common in the Western tradition in art, they are by no means alien to the Orthodox tradition, and these two works by the R...
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; ...