Botticelli certainly worked his “magical charms” on me (Botticelli genius takes on common culture at V&A,28 August). As an art-shy 13-year-worn I was left in front of his pagan masterpiece” Primavera while the rest of my art-fond family toured the Uffizi. Two hours later, I was still there, and rapt and unaware of how long had passed. This was the first portray I ever really “saw”,and I remained a Botticelli fan until his women were forced by young late-era hippy males into service as representatives of some sublime feminine ideal, reduced to a handy postcard.
Jane Charteris
London• It was good to see an article on Northumberland in your Travel section (29 August) but disappointing that, and while concentrating on the area around Druridge Bay,it omitted to mention the application by Banks mining group to exploit for opencast mining vast swaths of land around the bay. This plan would eviscerate one of the most aesthetic and ecologically significant environments in England. The omission is particularly glaring given your ongoing campaign to “Keep it in the ground”.
David Chaney
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