Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS

Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS

@bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social

Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.

10,726 Followers 538 Following 1,706 Posts Joined Oct 2023
13 hours ago
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Andrew Graham-Dixon and yours truly talking art at Words by the Water in the Lake District. (Andrew’s book on Vermeer by the way is superb and well worth an order).

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13 hours ago

V kind of you to say, thanks!

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13 hours ago

Ha, yes, thanks for coming!

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2 days ago

not sure!

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2 days ago

ta!

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2 days ago

If you ever need a word to shake money out of tech VCs, try 'pyschographic'.

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2 days ago
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The ‘de Brecy Tondo’, once hailed by AI as an undoubted Raphael, has been quietly (and correctly) sold at auction as a later copy for £13k.

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3 days ago
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Restoring a painting is one of life’s great pleasures An effervescent hunt scene by Rubens is set to spring into life, thanks to experts at Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie

I wrote this about art restoration for the FT. www.ft.com/content/bfa0...

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3 days ago

Beg pardon! This will be different though!

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3 days ago
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Talk: Bendor Grosvenor on

Next Thursday, 19th March, I'm talking at the King's Lynn festival, on The Invention of British Art. See you there!

www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/tal...

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1 week ago

Yes! Such a great pic.

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2 weeks ago

Yes, the scale of the Green win has shot the 'only we can stop Reform' argument.

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2 weeks ago

Any worse than an economist?

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2 weeks ago

My main conclusion from Gorton and Denton so far is that the punditocracy has little idea of what’s going on. They are as invested in, and connected to, the old system as the old parties.

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2 weeks ago

Suspect the chance that something odiously fatal to the PM is found in the Mandelson documents have increased this morning. (And sacking the Cabinet Secretary responsible for handing the papers over might not have been too clever either).

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2 weeks ago

Deep, deep joy that Goodwin isn’t an MP.

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2 weeks ago

although one might in fact say the un-invention...

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2 weeks ago

Aha, yes!

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2 weeks ago

ah, well plenty of time yet. In all seriousness, someone needs to take a look at the history of history of art in the UK. That is, in the last forty years or so, charting the shift in approach and methodology. It needs a slightly removed eye to do it, you'd be great!

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2 weeks ago

Nothing beats the interior photo, looks like a northern nightclub in the mid 70s.

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2 weeks ago

The journey isn't over - the PhD awaits!

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2 weeks ago

There were two chapels, though we don't know where the Diptych was kept. The image of the Madonna Richard went to see before going to Smithfield in 1381 was most likely in the Abbey.

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3 weeks ago

That’s true. Although tbh I suspect we’re still at the beginning of this particular crisis. Who knows what else will emerge.

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3 weeks ago

Oh cool, you crammed a lot in, thanks for coming!

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3 weeks ago

Ah yes, quite right.

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3 weeks ago
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In my Times it says ‘since the abdication’.

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3 weeks ago

Many thanks John, and thanks for coming!

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3 weeks ago

Great to meet you Beth!

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3 weeks ago

Our national embarrassments come thick and fast these days, but today I think Blair’s performance at Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ was even more cringe than the arrest of Mr M-W.

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3 weeks ago

Oh cool, thanks, see you later Beth! And enjoy WoD…

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