The June issue of Chronicles contains my combined review of Sonia Purnell’s ground-breaking biography of Clementine Churchill, and David Lough’s illuminating Churchill and His Money. Teaser link here (you need to subscribe to read the full review) – http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2017/June/41/6/magazine/article/10839545/
Date Archives → May 2017
Dancing into darkness – Holbein’s Dance of Death
DANCING INTO DARKNESS The Dance of Death, Hans Holbein, London: Penguin Classics, 2016, 184pps., pb., £9.99 If age is synonymous with canonicity – an assumption increasingly questioned – Hans Holbein’s 1523-5 Dance of Death qualifies as ‘classic’ on that score alone. But his striking work is also defining in deeper ways, epitomising the Reformation, when… Continue reading