‘Queen Mariana of Austria’: Diego Velázquez’s Monumental Portrait of a Monarch
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Thomas More is depicted very differently in Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. Which is closest t…
Depictions of Sir Thomas More in these works (pictured, Martin Shaw as More in Robert Bolt's play) are very different, taking ...
When a town has to fend off a tyrant
“We kill the tyrants or die trying to, for we are many and they are few,” proclaims a mayor pushed to his limits in a new adaptation from Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga of the classic 17th-century ...
Wording on a city centre plaque that seems completely out of place
A short walk from the Strand in Liverpool city centre is a commemorative plaque which seems completely out of place in the ...