Month: December 2020

  I’ve been a big fan of Roberto Calasso ever since one of my students introduced me to The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, and … Read more

  An ideal bit of holiday reading about photography is Roland Barthes’ classic study of the medium, Camera Lucida. Its a short book that, unlike … Read more

  Ben Thomas, Reader in History of Art, has just published a new book on Raphael, co-edited with Catherine Whistler of the Ashmolean Museum in … Read more

Earlier this year, before the first lockdown, the students taking the History of Art module Drawing: History and Practice were lucky enough to see the … Read more

The Baroque period can be characterised by an ‘intense religiosity’ or emotion in all facets of its forms whether it be theatre, painting, or sculpture. … Read more

In these video interviews, Vanessa Brassey (King’s College, London) talks to Dr Claire Anscomb about what it’s like to be both a professional philosopher and … Read more