At the Watermill we like the juxtaposition of ancient and modern, something you’ll notice throughout our Watermill bedrooms: a lone piece of antique furniture, for example, standing proudly among more…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 13. Giorgio Vasari*** Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is famous for writing the first important book on Art…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 12. Paolo Uccello*** Paolo Uccello (1397-1474) was a pioneer of the use of linear perspective, invented…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 11. Filippo Lippi*** There are many wonderful pictures in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, a treasure…
Silently and unseen, the leaves have fallen for more than half a century in our bamboo glade between the millstream and the river, creating a cushioned pathway through the towering…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 10. Domenico Ghirlandaio*** Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494) a Florentine Renaissance painter, is perhaps most famous for his…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 9. Lorenzo Ghiberti*** The Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455) made his name through the design and construction…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room her name: 8. Artemisia Gentileschi *** The Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654?) has become a feminist icon, celebrated for…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 7. Fra Angelico *** The Dominican monk Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole) (1395-1455)…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 6. Donatello *** Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (1386-1466), better known as Donatello, invented neo-classical sculpture…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 5. Filippo Brunelleschi *** Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), truly a Renaissance Man, built the soaring, gravity-defying dome of…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 4. Bronzino*** Agnolo Bronzino, Eleonora di Toledo and her son Giovanni de’ Medici. The Uffizi Gallery,…