Linz is the location for my building of the month for September. Linz is a city on the Danube which is vying for tourist attention and trying to compete with Salzburg and has been establishing itself as a centre for Modern Art. There is much development taking places in the city centre, along the Danube…
Month: August 2024
The Lentos Art Museum, Linz.
Linz is the location for my building of the month for September. Linz is a city on the Danube which is vying for tourist attention and trying to compete with Salzburg and has been establishing itself as a centre for Modern Art. There is much development taking places in the city centre, along the Danube…
The Golden Treasury and Cathedral at Aachen
Charlemagne was the hero of my history teacher at St Albans School when I was twelve, a certain Mr Solomon. His enthusiasm has stayed with me and I still see this great figure of German and European History as a colossus. What Europe might have been if he had had an inkling of succession planning,…
Jan Van Eyk’s Madonna with Joris Van Der Paele in Bruges
The Groeningemuseum is not to be found on the main tourist itineraries in Bruges but well worth the visit. It is a small collection mainly of art from this part of Flemish Belgium set in nine galleries. These rooms take you from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century. I must admit, however, to having concentrated…
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