This is the second post by Brisbane Jeweller, Barbara Heath focusing on the jewellery in ’Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado‘.  ‘Margarita was born on 12 July 1651, the daughter of Philip IV and Mariana of…

This is the first of six posts by Brisbane Jeweller, Barbara Heath focusing on jewellery in ’Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado‘ currently on view at the Queensland Art Gallery. Barbara is giving a…

The ocean of imagery in which we are all immersed makes it difficult to appreciate the power that resided (and continues to) in the painted (and sculpted) image during the sixteenth and seventeenth…

First of all, I think this is the best exhibition ever because it has so many dogs in it. In fact there are more dogs than I can count on my four paws….

American writer Ernest Hemingway loved Madrid. He had this to say about the city in the 1930s… ‘If it had nothing else than the Prado it would be worth spending a month in every…

The exhibition, an Australian first and exclusive to Brisbane, presents a portrait of Spain that starts with the perspectives of royal monarchs, their children, courtiers and jesters. The dark years of war are seen…