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Own work: The Arch of the English Merchants

     Finally a new painting to share with you. And it is the largest work, at 71x52 cms, I have yet attempted.  Mixed media, it is based on the Triumphal arch erected in Antwerp in 1546 by the city's English merchants to celebrate the arrival - the 'adventus' - of prince Philip of Spain.

Own work: Dietterlin

   Finally a new post!  Apologies for my absence; I've been having problems with my pc.  Here is my latest painting a Doric arch from the 'Architectura' ('Architectura: Von Austheilung, Symmetria und Proportion der Funff Seulen ') of Walter Dietterlin the Elder (1550 - 1599).  Dietterlin's treatise which was originally published in two parts was immensely influential in Northern Europe.  Elizabethan and Jacobean buildings are peppered with his decorative details.  

   I suppose that purist classical architects and architectural historians decry such stuff (and to be fair some of it is quite mad), but given a choice between Inigo Jones and Dietterlin I'd definitely choose the latter.  Much more fun.