Opening the Tomb of King John
The tomb of King John, who died in 1216, was opened twice in 1529 and 1797, in this article I explore what these openings discovered.
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The tomb of King John, who died in 1216, was opened twice in 1529 and 1797, in this article I explore what these openings discovered.
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This glorious object is the fifteenth-century crown or coronet of a member of the medieval English royal family member the Plantagents – She was Margaret of York, the sister of Edward IV and Richard III.
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In this article I look at how to identify figures of the twelve apostles in art, simply by looking at the various objects or ‘attributes’ that they hold.
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What are donor images? Donor images are figures of the patrons of a work of art, and their incorporation into paintings, stained glass and in other contexts was a common occurrence in the late medieval West. Often these images are shown interacting with other images within a work of art, with figures of the saints or of the Holy Trinity.
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So much medieval art has been lost since the mid 16th century, here I look at some wonderful visual evidence of a lost medieval painrted rood screen from Norfolk.
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This article looks in detail at the various depictions of the Mass in Rogier Van der Weyden’s Seven Sacraments Altarpiece.
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In this article I want to look briefly at neglected type of textile that was common in medieval Europe, stained and painted cloths.
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At Somerton church in Oxfordshire can be found a medieval altarpiece depicting the Last Supper.
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