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Travel Writing: Freya Stark

April 27, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

Searchquotes.com Long before many of us started to put pen-to-paper (as the old saying goes), there were travel writers galore. Indeed, whole libraries are devoted to travel writing, so we amateurs are always on the lookout for good examples. One of my favorite authors, going back to my childhood (I have no idea who introduced …

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Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: I.B. Taurus (publisher), Modern Library (publisher), Pierpont (Claudia Roth), Stark (Freya), The New Yorker (magazine)

More da Vinci: The Authentication Controversy

August 2, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

A quick follow-on to the story about the National Geographic Society Museum’s exhibition da Vinci – The Genius: Coincidentally, on the train returning from Washington, I found myself reading about yet another possible da Vinci work, currently on exhibition in Sweden under the patronage of the Italian government. Known as La Bella Principessa, the drawing …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture Tagged With: "La Bella Principessa", art, art - authentication, art history, David Grann, Jackson Pollock, Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Biro, The New Yorker (magazine)

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