Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Around Christmas, I received an email from Genoa in Italy, the city where Charles Ricketts's mother died in 1880. Her grave was in the E...

A is for A. A thing of beauty. Charles Ricketts, initial A in The Poems of John Keats , volume I (1898) Book I of volume I of the tw...

Last Monday, we dismantled the exhibition in Museum Meermanno that celebrated the 150th anniversary of Charles Ricketts, 1866 - 2016. It has...

This weekend, last opportunity to see the exhibition about Charles Ricketts at the Museum Meermanno in The Hague. It closes on Monday morni...

Recently, Julia Domna was in the news. In May of this year, Christie's in Amsterdam was offered for sale a statue with the head of Jul...

The third number of The Dial , the magazine edited by Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, contained a 'Personal Note' that was mos...

Recent news about the city of Nimrud in Iraq was all about vandalism and pillage by ISIS. The destruction of Assyrian antiquities in the reg...

The crucifixion has been depicted in art so often, that for an artist to come up with a new view verges on the impossible. Usually dramatic ...

A recent book by Xavier Giudicelli discusses the illustrated editions of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray . Interestingly,...

Last Thursday, the writer A.S. Byatt visited The Hague as part of a Dutch tour. Next December, she will receive the Erasmus Prize in the Ro...