Galleries

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio	This gallery collects together the complete works of Michaelangelo Merisi Di Caravaggio. These include the latest attributions, along with works considered to be copies, plus black and white photographs of destroyed works.

Johannes Vermeer	The thirty-five acknowledged surviving works of Johannes Vermeer are presented here. All original works were painted in oil on canvas and were painted between the mid-1650s and the mid-1670s in Vermeer's home town of Delft in the Netherlands.

Jacqueline Crofton	This gallery showcases pastel works and oil paintings by Jacqueline Crofton. Subjects include a series of paintings on the theme of food, conceived as a relevant social commentary of London at this present time, plus an exploration of the diverse problems of the artist and her work and the difficulty of choice between abstraction and figuration.

Panjske Končnice	The Kranjic beehives of Slovenia were comprised removeable boxes, like a chest of drawers, within which individual hives were created. Each box had a front panel upon which, from the mid-18th Century, it became fashionable to paint motifs in a 'folk baroque' style. Subjects could be religious, historic, humorous or simply surreal.

Art of Finland	The five decades from 1870 to 1920 were the "Golden Age" of Finnish National Romantic Art, encompassing portraiture, naturalism, symbolism and impressionism. These galleries showcase the artists who excelled during this underrated epoch of world art.

Patchwork	This gallery features a selection of paintings which have attracted Phespirit's attention during his meanderings around the real and virtual worlds. All reproductions have an accompanying information link.

Rose Rigden	Browse this gallery for a selection of mildly amusing postcards from Southern Africa.

Doodles	This gallery features a selection of Phespirit's doodled pencil sketches culled from a book of 51 original - if somewhat dubious - hymns of praise to the female form, created during successive lunch hours in 1990.

Heroes	This gallery of photographs showcases a selection of Phespirit's heroes and role models. All pictures link to an accompanying explanation. [ sequence random ]

Cuban Revolucion	2nd December 1956: Fidel Castro Ruz, his brother Raúl, the Argentine doctor Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and eighty-two revolutionaries sail from Mexico for Cuba. 1st January 1959: Fidel Castro, to universal popular acclaim, enters Havana and assumes control of the island. This gallery features photographs from the subsequent period, 1959-1964.

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