text by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish In 1727, an elderly woman named Janet Horne was executed in the Scottish Highlands for the crime of witchcraft. Nearly three centuries later, her story still lingers – fragmented, uncertain, and filtered through rumor rather than record. In The Last Witch of Scotland (2023), novelist Philip Paris revisits this haunting episode […]
text by Konrad Zaręba In 1893, Oscar Wilde composed the one-act drama Salomé, which retells, as its title indicates, the biblical narrative of Salome and the execution of John the Baptist. Because the play portrays biblical figures, it was prohibited in Britain and did not receive a public performance there until 1931. At the time […]
text by Paweł Rutkowski The Royal Collection contains an extraordinary picture of Christ as “Salvator Mundi”, a copy from 1798 of the painting by the Baroque Italian artist Carlo Dolci. What makes this replica unusual is that it was not painted but… embroidered. The artist who produced it was Mary Linwood (1755-1845), who was undoubtedly […]
