Blogs in April 2018

Painter to the King 18th April 2018

This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not...

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Orkney 1st January 1970

On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously-matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor: she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how...

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