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Hedingham Castle

Hedingham Castle The village of Castle Hedingham is dominated by one of the finest keeps. Faced with ashlar masonry brought all the way from Barnack, it is almost perfectly preserved, lacking only its battlements. The sloping plinth and pilaster buttresses are typical Norman motifs but the turrets rising at two opposite corners are a distinctive

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Venetian Painting At The National Gallery; Ravishingly Beautiful Visions of Religion And Nudity

Venetian Painting At The National Gallery; Ravishingly Beautiful Visions of Religion And Nudity The new show that is installed at The National Gallery of Art, “Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting,” presents us, not only with ravishing beauty, but with the vision of a time when apparently religion and nudity were easygoing

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