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J G Ballard on viewing Crivelli’s Annunciation
Via Bibliokept: I am sure that a large part of the enduring mystery of the Renaissance masterpieces in the National Gallery was due to the absence of the explanatory matter that…
“Tower of Ivory, House of Gold”: the Litaniae Lauretanae with Mozart, Zelenka, Heiligenkreuz Abbey and Benedict XVI
Contrary to the name, the “Litany of Loreto” is most likely to have originated in Paris between 1150 and 1200, according to this site. It is a litany of praises and…
Séamus Sweeney 