Botticelli – John Allcock

That it should come to this!

09/01/202525/04/2023 by John

As a part of my attempt to study Italian I subscribe to a very useful service entitled “Easy Italian News”, which every day distributes a bulletin of world new in Italian. I find it useful not only because it provides a (rather minimal) opportunity to keep my knowledge of the language going, but because it … Read more

Looking at art in different way….history or experience?

09/01/202509/10/2021 by John

Today we went to the monthly meeting of the regional Italian Circle, where the talk was about Botticelli. I found it interesting because the speaker took a line very different from that which I rmemember from the history of art classes I remember from school. I guess that things might well be different these days, … Read more