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La Belle Ferronnière |
ACME LABELS
JOHN PINCHE
CROWN BUILDING
CROWN STREET
CAMBERWELL S
Madame Lombard is a rose, and it looks like a label for a plant and was found in an area where the owners still tip compost with modern flower labels. Perhaps LOMBARD was misspelled LAMBARD? Or was it the name of a favourite cow on the farm?
On Tuesday I went to London on my own to see the Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery. Sue had bad arthritis and Jackie was laid up with a bug so no travelling companions to burden me, I mean, share the experience with. It was an excellent exhibition, though very crowded. You have a time slot and I marched straight into the Sainsbury Wing where it was held. I didn’t bother with most of the drawings which were very small and had lots of people queuing to see them. I just viewed the ones on the audio guide. What an amazing draughtsman da Vinci was. He captured so much tone with his fine implements. I hadn’t realised there were only 20 paintings that he finished. The Milan paintings were all here. I was amazed by the portrait above, La Belle Ferronnière and kept revisiting it. I have seen the Mona Lisa twice and much prefer this portrait. It looks as fresh as if painted recently and the details and light effects are superb.The poster portrait for the exhibition, The Lady with an Ermine, was also very fine, but looked to me like a portrait, whereas La Belle Ferronnière was alive and felt as though the young lady was right there in the room with you. All the portraits were magnifique, and the exhibition paintings can be viewed at
http://www.digitalhen.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13334287
On Tuesday I went to London on my own to see the Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery. Sue had bad arthritis and Jackie was laid up with a bug so no travelling companions to burden me, I mean, share the experience with. It was an excellent exhibition, though very crowded. You have a time slot and I marched straight into the Sainsbury Wing where it was held. I didn’t bother with most of the drawings which were very small and had lots of people queuing to see them. I just viewed the ones on the audio guide. What an amazing draughtsman da Vinci was. He captured so much tone with his fine implements. I hadn’t realised there were only 20 paintings that he finished. The Milan paintings were all here. I was amazed by the portrait above, La Belle Ferronnière and kept revisiting it. I have seen the Mona Lisa twice and much prefer this portrait. It looks as fresh as if painted recently and the details and light effects are superb.The poster portrait for the exhibition, The Lady with an Ermine, was also very fine, but looked to me like a portrait, whereas La Belle Ferronnière was alive and felt as though the young lady was right there in the room with you. All the portraits were magnifique, and the exhibition paintings can be viewed at
http://www.digitalhen.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13334287
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| The Sainsbury Wing |
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| The clearing is growing |
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| Mark hard at work |
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| Neil also working hard |
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| interesting fungus (6 inches long) |
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| view towards Blackdown |
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| potential new Duke of Burgundy territory |
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| new sign |
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| Tumuli |
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| view from a tumulus |
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| The Duke surveying his kingdom |
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