How to Spend It

Nancy Cadogan has been drawing around Lake Como for more than 20 years. “It doesn’t surprise me that the Romantics were so moved by the lake,” the British painter  says of the area, which was also beloved of Percy and Mary Shelley and Lord Bryon in the early 19th century. “It has the capacity to relieve the individual of themselves.” In her latest works, which can be seen in situ at the Torre delle Arti Bellagio cultural centre, she considers not only the dramatic scenery of Como but its historic role as a muse.