24 AUGUST 1991, page 27

Proclaiming A Genius

Gregory Martin VAN DYCK PAINTINGS by Arthur K. Wheelock Thames & Hudson, £48, pp.384 T he recent loan exhibition of paintings and oil sketches by Anthony van Dyck at the......

But Then He Came From A Bad Family

Anthony Blond CALIGULA by Arther Ferrill Thames & Hudson, £12.95, pp. 184 `Why don't you eat pork?' (Caligula to a delegation of Jews.) `So much for the prince ... now for the......

Explaining

All we can build is built on love And everything we deconstruct Is merely an attempt to prove That every flower is better plucked BY US — professors, Ph.D.s, And all who think......