Grumpy Art Historian

I love Italy, really I do. Great food, great art, great landscape. Transport is fantastic; well-maintained roads (well, better than UK or U...

Picture: MS Very excited to see this new Raphael drawing Ajax and Cassandra  at the British Museum recently, just accepted by the gover...

Picture: Ashmolean The most sensitive connoisseurs not only hold different views on this drawing; they espouse those views with utter...

  Picture: MS  I just made it to Paris before the end of the  Late Raphael exhibition, which I'll review more ful...

Photo: BM I've been inspired by the Raphael drawing exhibitions in Haarlem and Frankfurt (and seeing the outstanding drawing sol...

Photo: Staedel   I liked the Raphael drawings exhibition at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.  I like the Raphael drawings exhibition...