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More Than A Renaissance Wide Boy

David Ekserdjian BENVENUTO CELLINI by John Pope-Hennessy Macmillan, £85 B envenuto Cellini (1500-1571) was a convicted sodomite and a triple murderer (Sir John Pope-Hennessy is......

The Artist's Letter To His Son

As I have told you previously my subject is what is before me, and what is before me is always the natural world, the world of paint and seasons. I am painting the world as it......

The Bawdy Hand Writes On

Mark Amory THE PRICK OF NOON by Peter de Vries Gollancz, £8.95 P eter de Vries never stops making jokes — some of them bad, some of them not worth the elaborate setting up they......