How Sandy Little Barrel conquered the artistic world
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives his name to your room: 3: Sandro Botticelli *** We’ll bet you’ve never heard of Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni…
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Sofonisba Anguissola: Youthful vitality and feminine ambition
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives her name to your room: 2: Sofonisba Anguissola*** This delightful family portrait, of her three younger sisters playing chess, was…
Leon Battista Alberti: A Renaissance polymath – inspiring others by showing and telling
The first of our artists whose life and times are celebrated in Watermill bedroom names: 1. Alberti*** Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an extraordinary Renaissance polymath: architect, artist, author, mathematician,…
This Watermill bedroom is named after a strange old bird
Continuing our notes on the early Renaissance artists after whom our Watermill bedrooms are named*, today it’s the turn of Paolo Uccello. Uccello (1397-1475,) was a pioneer of the use…
‘Life itself stirring vigorously in the stone’
Celebrating Italian artists who inspired Watermill bedroom names: 4: Donatello The Watermill’s bedrooms are named after famous Italian artists* and we thought it would be fun to tell you more…
Si monumentum requiris, circumspice*
Celebrating Italian artists who inspired Watermill bedroom names: 3: Brunelleschi The Watermill’s bedrooms are named after famous Italian artists* and we thought it would be fun to tell you more about…
“We are rich and in charge, and if our clothes break the sumptuary laws, so what?”
The Watermill’s bedrooms are named after famous Italian artists* and we thought it would be fun to tell you more about them in a series of short articles. We’ll also…
Looking down occasionally can be truly amazing
When entering the Duomo, the cathedral of Santa Maria Fiore in Florence, the natural tendency is to look up, into the soaring space of the dome, the capolavoro of my…