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Leonardo da Vinci - La Scapigliata, c. 1506-1508, Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Congratulations to Andrew Taylor - such a clever and entertaining read.

Join me, 📚💚Caroline Lea🧟‍♀️✍️, and Anna Mazzola - Updates only. at Windsor Waterstones on June 19th for an evening of discussion about the allure of vampires, monsters and witches in our historical fiction. See my bio linktree for more details and please share with any friends who might be interested.

Angels climbing the stairway to Heaven on the West front of Bath Abbey in Somerset, England, circa 1521.

'Clair de lune.' (1895) Relatively unknown today, Charles-Victor Guilloux exhibited his paintings at the Salon alongside Paul Gauguin and the Nabis artists. A reviewer praised his contribution as ‘A magnificent series of landscapes sent in by an unknown who is a master.'

Thank you so much, Simon!

'View of Rhenen.' (1908) Around 1895, the Dutch painter Ferdinand Nibbrig began experimenting with divisionism to help him capture heat and light; how he has succeeded here with a painting that has the composed grandeur of a fresco.

What an opening!

Georges Seurat's painting depicts a farmer in his fields; it belongs to a series of small-scale paintings on panels or ‘croquetons’ as Seurat called them. This was painted two before 'Grande Jatte,' his magnum opus in 1885, at the age of 25.

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Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things, by English painter Danielle Gengembre Boás Anderson (19th century). In private collection.

‘Edith Villiers’, George Frederic Watts, 1862. #preraphaeliteart #preraphaelite #victorianart #arthistory #art #watts #georgefredericwatts

Speaking of the drop off in reading, I CANNOT believe that in 2025 my niece’s set texts for the already reading for pleasure-killing GCSE torture tests were Of Mice and Men and An Inspector Calls. Literally as if eighty years of culture has not happened. Insane and so so dumb.

Cuban painter Tomás Sánchez’s serene idyll of a verdant tree-island surrounded by still waters is almost meditative (Aislarse, 2001). If you contemplate this long enough, you may notice the tiny figure of a man standing at the near-edge of the forest

The incredibly beautiful Great Malvern Railway Station. A Grade Il listed building which retains its stunning and original Victorian features.

BOOK EVENT! On the 19th June join our BRILLIANT Essie Fox Author and the fabulous 📚💚Caroline Lea🧟‍♀️✍️ at Waterstones #Windsor! They'll be chatting about the monsters that inspired their #Romantic historical fiction novels #Dangerous and #LoveSexAndFrankenstein! ✨ bit.ly/3SCRlEo

I made a cake. Bat wings and black icing for vampire lovers.

Look!

'Morning Light,' (1916) is considered by many to be Elioth Gruner's masterpiece of his wartime pastorals. Enveloping light, technical brilliance, and pictorial perfection are the hallmarks of the best of his work.

So sorry to see this - but please buy Caroline’s book. It’s utterly absorbing. Out this Thursday.