My quest for a blog name.
B is for… Batrachomyomachia
Bit of a mouthful: it’s the Battle of Frogs and Mice!
The Ugly & the Unusual Pt. III
This figurine has stuck with me for a long term...
A is for Ashmolean…
Oxford is known for being a little magical, it's dreaming spires linked with the turrets of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. But perhaps the real magic is inside the Ashmolean…
The Ugly & The Unusual Pt. II
The Belvedere Torso isn't exactly ugly, but it is a little unusual...
The Ugly & The Unusual Pt. I
Perhaps I have a soft spot for objects which aren’t constantly lauded as the epitome of human artistic achievement, but I really do seem to love things which are rather… ugly. Or at least unusual. In Part I, I'm looking at vases and architectural sculpture...
Crazy love: pots
I held something which had been created by an ordinary person, a manual labourer, over 2000 years ago
Art or Antiquity?
What makes art?
Book Review: Atwood’s The Penelopiad
Recommended by my Classics teacher a while back, it’s taken me two years to finally get round to reading Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad.