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White Horses on Green Hills

In Bronze Age, Dragon Hill, Philip Gross, Punctuation, St George, Wayland's Smithy, White Horse of Uffington by Kate Innes21st March 2015

The White Horse of Uffington, Oxfordshire, England approximately 1000BC The chalk horses that exist across areas of southern England are, in the main, the product of the 18th, 19th and …

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The Horse

In Alice Walker, Horses, Medieval Knights by Kate Innes12th March 2015

Wild Horses on Abdon Burf, Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire We had no word for the strange animal we got from the white man –  the horse.   So we called …

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Spring Lamb

In Carly Simon, Lambs, Spring, Symbolism, William Blake, William Holman Hunt by Kate Innes3rd March 2015

I must admit to having conflicted feelings when I see the new lambs in the fields at this time of year.  With my urban sensibilities, it worries me that so …

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Speaking to the birds

In Jane Goodall, Medieval art, Poetry, St Francis preaching to the birds by Kate Innes23rd February 2015

St Francis preaching to the birds- Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337)detail from the Predella of St Francis Receiving the StigmataMusee du Louvre, Paris(The cockerel in the back row seems particularly attentive) …

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Sleeping Dogs

In Ashmolean Museum, dogs, mongrels, Poetry, Stubbs, Van Dyck by Kate Innes15th February 2015

A Dog lying on a Ledge by a Genoese Artist (circa 1650-1680)Ashmolean Museum, Oxford This painting caught my eye when I was last in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.  The …

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The Wild Wood

In fairy tales, forests, hermits, Jan Van Eyck, wildmen, wodewose by Kate Innes5th February 2015

The Ghent Altarpiece – Jan Van Eyck and Hubert Van Eyck-The Holy Hermits, 1432 Ignore, if you can, the procession of hairy men in the bottom half of the painting …

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Arms for a maiden – The Hare

In Bestiary, Coat of Arms, Hares, Leverets, Medieval World Up side down, Misericords by Kate Innes28th January 2015

Breviary of Renaud and Marguerite de Bar Metz, 1302-1305 Verdun Biblioteque Municipale, MS 107, fol. 89r detail One is hard-pressed these days to wander through any high street without seeing …

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The Circle of Animals

In Callisto, Constellations, The Plough, Ursa Major, Zodiac by Kate Innes14th January 2015

Lepus (The Hare) Plate 30, Urania’s Mirror, 1824 by the Rev Richard Rouse Bloxham and Sidney Hall One of the few consolations of winter is having longer to view the stars …

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The Magi

In Cologne Cathedral, Epiphany, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Magi, relics, reliquaries, Saint Helena, The Christmas Sales, The Errant Hours, The Venerable Bede, Three Kings, TS Eliot by Kate Innes6th January 2015

The Magi by Herrad of Landsberg (1130-1195) reproduced by Christian Maurice Engelhardt 1818   ‘We Three Kings of Orient are, one in a taxi, one in a car, one on …

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Robin Redbreast and the Wren

In Birds, Medieval Bestiaries, Poetry, Robin, Sherbourne Missal, Symbolism, The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy by Kate Innes30th December 2014

Robin from the Sherbourne Missal, c. 1400, BL Add. MS 74236 Fascination with birds is something I will admit to, although I am not a bird watcher except in the …

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