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…
Category Archives: Italian Artists
‘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…
Celebrating Italian artists who inspired Watermill bedroom names: 1 Botticelli
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…
Rosa Genoni: a pioneer of Italian fashion inspired by Botticelli
…Armani, Cavalli, Fendi, Gabbana (and Dolce), Valentino, Gucci, Prada, Versace, Schiaparelli… today, when the names of Italian fashion designers slip easily off the tongue, it’s difficult to recall that there…
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…
Michelangelo’s Tuscany: Artistic Inspiration for Your Painting Holiday
Why does Michelangelo’s Moses have horns? Similarly, why do the four evangelists not mention an ox and a donkey in the Bible, even though Nativity scenes show them? These…