Oxford requires you to include a response to an art object, of no more than 750 words, in your application. It’s worth starting this at the earliest opportunity so that you have plenty of time to draft and redraft it. Hopefully, this should be a reasonably pleasant exercise…
Read MoreThe Beheading of St John is the only painting Caravaggio signed; from the Baptist’s severed head, blood flows to form the name Michelangelo. This Baroque masterpiece hangs in St John’s Co-Cathedral, a place I often visited during my upbringing in Malta. While the Cathedral’s opulence intrigued me, I was overwhelmed by the painting’s gruesome content.
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