european hours (invocations) To ancestral Europe: your Iberia, my Austria-Hungary. (To London…) ** (Lisbon) To your azulejos tiles, commissioned by the Marquis of Fronteira for the garden of his Palacio. To ‘Saint Vincent’s Panels’ by Nuno Gonçalves and Bosch’s triptych ‘The Temptation of Saint Anthony’ in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. To your paintings in the chapel of the President’s palace at Belém (and to a house of stories twenty miles away). ** (London) To Piero di Cosimo’s ‘Battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs’ in the National Gallery, a favourite picture you always study closely. To your studio and its contents: mannequins, costumes and masks; pastels, pencils and charcoal sticks; tubes of acrylics, traditional oil paint and water-mixable oil. To the music in your studio: Amalia, Mariza and Camané; Mouloudji, Montand and Patachou; Rigoletto, La Traviata and Carmen. To ‘Kubla Khan’ (‘For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of paradise’), always read aloud after dinner – with you joining prologue 3