Booze Special! To celebrate the reopening of pubs in Britain, Waldy & Bendy search out the best drinking scenes in art. Also, ex-Masterchef presenter, Lloyd Grossman, talks about his new book on Bernini!
LLOYD GROSSMAN
An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, The Pope and The Making of the Eternal City (2021) by Lloyd Grossman (Pallas Athene, 2021)
Elephant and Obelisk (1667) by Bernini (1598-1680)
Apollo and Daphne (1622-25) by Bernini
The Rape of Proserpina (1621-22) by Bernini
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1618-19) by Bernini
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (1647–1652) by Bernini
David (c. 1623-24) by Bernini
David (1501-04) by Michelangelo (1475-1564)
BOOZE
Bacchus (1596) by Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Beware of Luxury (1663) by Jan Steen (c. 1626-1679)
The Night Café (1888) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751) by William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Drunken Silenus (1616-17) by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
ON THE WALL
Portrait of Gerald Wellesley (1790-1833) (1893) by Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
Perspective Corridor at Rome’s Palazzo Spada (1540) by Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)
