I am finishing 2009 on a high note with a trip to Sheffield on 29th December. It was a good trip and an interesting experience, which I will be talking about… in 2010! Arthur de Mowbray, Nativit...
All of us who love soul will know Gladys Knight. Midnight Train to Georgia, I Heard It Through the Grapevine… And a wonderful version of a traditional Christmas song, Do You Hear What I Hear? I ...
Over at People’s Almanac there are several impressive galleries of rare postcards. In a way, there is something for everyone, be it Soviet World War II posters, pin-up girls, or Picasso’s ...
El Greco, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1605 (Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain). A variation on this theme was painted by El Greco in 1610 and is now housed at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . &nb...
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...
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 ...