Helen

Librocubicularist | literature, history, art | Lancastrian in exile | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🇸🇪

[Philip Mould @philipmould]

Filming #fakeorfortune in Cambridge’s marvellous @FitzMuseum_UK I’ve just been eyeballed by this sublimely painted, unfinished lady - historically attributedJacob Jordaens (1593-1678.) So good in fact that the the young Van Dyck looms into the frame as contender.....

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Reading that ten Cabinet ministers considering entering the Tory leadership contest. The worst Cabinet in history. Full of people who think they should be PM.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

Got a stupidly big thrill from getting a cracking view of where I live on Söder as we flew in to Årlanda. Followed by a wave of relief on landing that I was back. Stockholm suddenly feeling much more like home.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

These three days in Amsterdam have been my farewell city break as an EU citizen. This, in the English Church in the Begijnhof, pretty much sums up how I feel about Brexit.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

Farewell Amsterdam, you, your food, your flea markets, your parks, your canals, your art and your architecture have all been a delight. I’ve never seen a more beautiful part of a city than the area south of Prinsengracht. #loveeurope

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

(3/3) and look at this sketch of Susannah and the Elders - emphatically clear that this is not ok. Rembrandt’s emotional truth much closer to the powerful revulsion in Artemisia Gentileschi’s rendering than being yet another excuse by male artists to show a woman naked.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

(2/3) A charming St Jerome, resting against a tree, face in the cool shade while he reads, watched over by an imposing lion. All the fleshy women with real bodies that have worked hard and borne children - he seems to respect women as humans so much more than most artists.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

Highlights from Alle Rembrandts @rijksmuseum - the endless tenderness of his sketches of his wife Susannah and son Titus; the painted portrait of the latter in a monk’s cowl simply glows with paternal affection. (1/3)

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

This man is coming home with me instead.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

I may love Rembrandt but if I was going to have a Thomas Crown moment in @rijksmuseum it would be Vermeer’s delightful ‘The Little Street’.

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

House of Commons catering sense of humour klaxon

[TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) @TechnicallyRon]

Not when you had the whole loaf to start with you haunted dildo

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

It’s Colin Firth in Kingsman 3, where he goes undercover to save the country from egregious Brexiteer twats. Excellent jazz cameo from Ken Clarke.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

Enjoying the militia paintings @rijksmuseum - they should have an exhibition of their own called #ladsladslads

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

Cummings message to what he describes as the 'narcissist-delusional' part of ERG -during the ref, 'so many of you guys were too busy shooting or skiing or chasing girls to do any actual work. You should be treated like a metastasising tumour and excised from the UK body politic'

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

@laura_far_away you’re not the only one, it seems.

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

I’m surprised to see you here, Mr. Farage. I thought you were marching 200 miles for the leave campaign? How many did you do? 2 miles! You remind me more & more of Field Marshal Haig in Blackadder, sitting safely in his office, while his people are walking in the cold & the rain.

[Helen @Hels_Bells1]

Delightful celebration of friendship @Rembrandthuis with absolute joy of seeing Jan Lievens’ tender early portrait of his close friend Rembrandt, complete with youthful pimples.

[The PWE and British Culture @PWEpropagandist]

@psywarorg Apparently when it was suggested early in the war that leaflets could be dropped featuring speeches by Chamberlain and Halifax, Coward said there was 'not going to be the time to bore the enemy to death.’