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A child is born during a very cold winter in early 20th century Germany. Her parents, a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, are not in the best of marriages. He is unable to rise above the 11th salary rank at work due to prejudice against his Jewish wife. She has been declared dead by her monied grandfather who actually sat shiva for her because she married a Christian. When their baby daughter becomes ill, neither of them knows the trick of putting snow on her chest to shock her back into breathing. The baby girl, Nora dies during her first weeks of life.

But what if they had known to put snow on her chest? In The End of Days Jenny Erpenbeck examines this idea by telling the story of Nora had she survived childhood. The novel follows Nora as she goes through many lives living a little longer…

Here is the Bishopsgate Institute entrance, seen from the other side of the road.

The Bishopsgate Institute opened in 1895, as a centre for adult learning. Amazingly, it continues this mission to this day, with a huge range of courses and classes, as well as a library and an event programme: https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/

The Institute was founded by Reverend William Rogers (1819-1896), a clergyman who took action to improve the lot of London’s poor and provide educational opportunities for people of all backgrounds. He secured funding for his educational initiative by using charitable funds from the City of London:

On arriving at St Botolph’s, Rogers discovered that a pot of charitable donations had been accumulating in the City for over five hundred years. These donations were often death bed bequests, with the donor hoping to secure his or her place in…

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Zhang Daqian: A guide to China’s most popular artist

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Zhang Daqian at Christie’s

Zhang Daqian at Sotheby’s

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“For its beauty, vivacity, freshness and lightness of palette,” Liotard wrote, “pastel painting is more beautiful than any other kind of painting.” Liotard is known for pressing pastel quite forcefully onto the paper to create extra brilliance in order to exaggerate these qualities. This peculiar technique and desire for luminosity is what set him apart from other artists working with pastel and makes his works unique.”

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Expert audio commentary on this portrait at St. Louis Art Museum

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Jean-Étienne Liotard at wikiwand

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Jean Étienne Liotard at Meisterdrucke

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I was introduced to this lovely pastel portrait in the post Jean-Étienne Liotard – Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1760) on the…