Frivolous Fragments

  They have a haunting quality, those spectral images of gods and mortals on Roman wall paintings. Lifelike illusions modelled with light an...

  Les cantates de Bach – allant des ‘soucis’ de l’homme fragile qui chante sa détresse et implore la pitié (à travers des chants et des duos...

Those are definitely two bunnies, there in the background of that Bellini painting of a ‘Lamentation on the dead Christ’ (1). In the foregro...

Empires built & lost, razed cities, destruction & suffering  - yes, one could look at history in horror and see a single chain of ca...

 my prompt: " Can you write an essay of maximum 725 words on how History is not just a matter of powerstruggles and material interests...

Eclipse Granted,  “The Quiet Cancelling of Claude Lorrain” would have made for a stronger alliterative title  - but Lorrain is not the victi...

  Prompt : Can you write a short essay on why there are so little books on Claude Lorrain. Can you write in the style of the Blogger Blog ...