Vision surges in front of you. You must seize this vision with the brush, because it can disappear suddenly, as the hare when the hunter approaches. Su Dongpo (Su Shi), a Chinese poet. The popularity...
Sébastien Le Fol blogs about culture and arts for Le Figaro. His most recent piece was on the subject of why the Parisians seem to similarly adore both Claude Monet and Basquiat whose exhibitions are ...
Previously on this blog you have found and read If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden. It was a villanelle, a poetic form adopted by the English poetry in the 18th c. To England it came from Italy and Sp...
It is the first Sunday of Advent today, which means that Christmas is just around the corner, and that Los Cuadernos is opening its annual season of daily December posting. I spontaneously decided fou...
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, The Star of Bethlehem, 1890 (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK) Image credit: Wikimedia. In 1886, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones were commissioned a tapestry for Exe...
El Greco, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1605 (Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain). A variation on this theme was painted by El Greco in 1610 and is now housed at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . &nb...
Alessandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, 1475/76 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy) This painting was commissioned to Botticelli by a Florentine Gaspar di Zanobi del Lama for the church of Santa M...
Although the themes of Adoration and the journey of the Magi seem to be more common in the Western tradition in art, they are by no means alien to the Orthodox tradition, and these two works by the R...
Diego Velázquez, The Adoration of the Magi, 1619 (Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain) Velazquez, Immaculate Conception, 1618 This painting was probably painted for the Society of Jesus and in the same yea...
The Journey of the Magi was written by T. S. Eliot in 1927, the year he became the British citizen and converted to Anglicanism. Somewhat in line with his adherence to the European legacy and bearing ...