Monthly Archives: Mar 2025

For Catholics throughout the world today marks the beginning of the season of Lent, a 40 day period of penance and abstinence in preparation for the celebration of Holy Week and Easter. The 40 days is a reminder of the period that Jesus spent in the wilderness being tempted by the Devil at the beginningContinue reading “The Temptation of Christ”

With the Carnival season about to reach its climax, here is The Harlequin’s Carnival by Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983). In 1924, poet André Breton formed the Surrealist movement, around the time Miró started to focus on dreams and the subconscious as artistic material, fused with his own life experiences and memories. Created between 1924Continue reading “A surrealist carnival”

Following on from the Valladolid shows devoted to the great Spanish masters of polychrome art, this week of posts ends in Madrid with the Prado’s current exhibition that explores the whole relationship between sculptures and painters. The show is titled ‘Hand in Hand. Sculpture and colour in the Spanish Golden Age’ – a reference toContinue reading “Hand in Hand. Sculpture and colour in the Spanish Golden Age”