In the footsteps of the Habsburgs
“It was like going from technicolour to black and white,” says our tour guide Sabine Mueller, as we drive towards the Brandenburg Gate. Which is exactly how I remember my one-day teenage sojourn from ...
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Books on Art, The Reformation and The Apocalypse
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 6 (2017) The Art Museum (Phaidon £39.95). The evolution of art spans some thirty millennia and covers art from the Stone Age to today, ranging across the world. T ...
Handel’s baroque masterpiece staged by Richard Jones
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Rodelinda at London Coliseum Handel’s Rodelinda premiered in London in 1725. If you are looking for something Baroque, forget it. If you are looking for a political drama ...