Visual Studies

Do you want to be a better ally to people who are blind or have low vision? Reading this book is a great first step. Have you seen someone struggling with accessibility and wanted to help them with what they can't see... but you were afraid of offending them? Do you want to help your friend who is struggling with with their low vision? Do you want to get to know your blind neighbor, visually impaired co-worker, or a customer having trouble seeing? Can You See Me Now? tackles 14 different topics and offer strategies meant to teach you about the disability on vision loss so you can be there ...

The Titian Show at the National Gallery here in London has just opened to the public again. It was available for just three days before the big lockdown. Now, it is with us once more, though on rather different terms from what was the case previously. You have to book a time. You have to be wearing a mask. You have to maintain distance between yourself and other visitors booked in for the same slot. Is it worth the hassle? Yes, of course it is. Titian is one of the greatest figures in the history of Western art.

Presents a collection of essays by Nicholas James on classic and contemporary art: "The Trinity" by Masaccio at Santa Maria Novella, Florence; Vermeer's "The Maid" and "Woman Weighing Pearls"; Cezanne and Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon portraits, and reviews of over 70 exhibitions in public and private galleries held between 1993 and 2010.

A study of Aubrey Beardsley's work exhibited at Tate Britain until May 25, 2020. The author considers the darkly vigorous imagery of the short lived genius, his graphic work for the notorious Yellow Book, and sublimely erotic illustrations for Lysistrata by Aristophane and Salome by Oscar Wilde, which frank imagery even shocked the author.

Six ways to ignite the love of God’s Word in your children, and have them still want more. So many parents want to raise a "with-it" academic child, forgetting that the more important aim is to raise a holy child. After all, we could be raising a brilliant robber, or intelligent murderer. There is no downside to raising a holy child. Such a child is the delight of his parent's heart. If a love of the Bible doesn't grip a child's soul early on, chances grow slimmer by the year to ever capture that heart again. Here, learn how to gain that heart and hold it transfixed to the word of God for...

A recorded visit to Elizabethan Treasures during the press view at the National Portrait Gallery London. Inspect miniature portraits by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Frake, Henry Wriothesley and others, and the celebrated icon of Queen Elizabeth I.