Author: MichaelBloor

Art and Good Government

. The didactic purpose of the frescos is clear from the strap-line at the base of the Allegory of Good Government, which begins “Turn your eyes to behold her, you ...

by MichaelBloor • 18th May 201915th January 2026

Essay Saturday, Features

Two Landscapes and a Dismal Science

I had taken some thirty years ago – a walk that had stunned and disturbed me at the time, but which I had since almost forgotten…

by MichaelBloor • 29th December 201815th January 2026

Essay Saturday

Taking Tea With Joseph Needham

I’m now about the same age as Joseph Needham was in 1967 and there’s something intriguing and a little embarrassing about my (very slight) connection with him, namely that he ...

by MichaelBloor • 20th January 201820th January 2018

Essay Saturday

A Picnic In The Elysian Fields

William Morris (1834-96): ‘Hey Bute, pass over that platter of roast crackling, there’s a good fellow.’

by MichaelBloor • 10th June 2017