literary

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https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/new-skripal-theory/

Your note for " At times, Gray's notes on his tour, as they catalogue the paintings that he saw, have the limited interest of any list. His comments on paintings are often stylized and betray the prejudices of the period, but they are always thoughtful, often animated, sometimes challenging. There is scope in these lists for many errors, both by Gray, as he may have wrongly identified paintings, and by myself, as I stray out of my own literary specializations in attempting to cope with the names of painters unknown to me or now known by different names. However, what is extraordinary is the knowledge of this 23-year-old and the pertinacity and intellectual stamina of his exploration of Renaissance art. It is perhaps no wonder that his companion, Horace Walpole, seems eventually to have tired of this relentless daily examination of galleries and museums. I have done my best, with the help of Groves' Dictionary of Art and Bénézit's Dictionnaire des Peintres, to check, footnote, and list the artists that Gray mentions, though some have eluded me. Many of the palazzi that Gray visited have changed in use and many of the pictures that Gray saw are now relocated or scattered in galleries across the affluent western world; some will have been lost or destroyed. No doubt a thesis could be written on this diaspora. Gray's notes (which were not intended for publication) do not have"

http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi?collection=primary&edition=RoB_2011



https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/december-2019-january-2020/a-writer-diminished/
https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/june-2019/border-bard/


Jerusalem Post

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/The-Ottomans-are-back-what-does-that-mean-for-Israel-612789