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  • Time and Johannes Vermeer

    Time and Johannes Vermeer

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    Andrew Green
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    Today’s the last day of my imaginary return visit to the city of Delft.  As always, it’s been a time of rest and contemplation among the canals and step-gabled houses facing them.  And as usual I’ve been thinking about Delft’s most famous citizen, Johannes Vermeer, and his paintings – this time, the early works that…

  • Shandy Hall and the Auxerre moment

    Shandy Hall and the Auxerre moment

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    Andrew Green
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    Shandy Hall is a house almost as eccentric as the mind of its once owner, Laurence Sterne, vicar of Coxwold and author of The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy. One of the highlights of the summer was a tour of the inside of the building in the company of its curator, Patrick Wildgust. My…