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Bernini and the Barberini at the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
THE present exhibition at the National Gallery in Rome sets out to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the dedication of the New St Peter’s (18 November 1626). As it is a joint enterprise of the National Gallery and the…
Sanctuary by Nicholas Mynheer (Portsmouth Cathedral)
THE exhibition “Sanctuary” tells a story as it unfolds through paintings and sculptures surrounding the nave of Portsmouth Cathedral. The story that it tells is one that equates the flight into Egypt — which, in the Coptic…
800 Years of the Mendicant Orders (Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland)
THE Master of the St Johns’ Almshouse Triptych, which went under the hammer for £5.2 million (Sotheby’s, 3 December), was one of the undoubted highlights of the ghastly theme-park show “Gothic” at the V&A more than 20…
Alchemy (Flowers Gallery, London W1)
GEORGE BLACKLOCK is an innovator in the field of abstract art. He has written, with the eye of an artist, on the history of how colour was liberated from its subservient role to drawing in developing pictorial space, and how…
From the Shadows (National Gallery, London)
REBELLIONS and revolutions bookended Joseph Wright’s life. The artist’s early schooling took place in Repton rather than Derby, because the Wright family home, in the shadow of what is now Derby Cathedral, was evacuated to…
An Urban Passion (St Marylebone Parish Church and then St Peter’s, Nottingham)
JEAN LAMB has a track record for reimagining the Stations of the Cross in new and challenging forms.Her carved sculptural Stations of the Holocaust, besides illustrating the Passion narrative, included images from the…
By the Dawn’s Early Light (National Gallery, London)
I WOULD not have recalled the name of Edwin Austin Abbey RA (1852-1911) had not a friend taken me to the Broadway Museum and Art Gallery in the Cotswolds last year. On a typical English June day of grey cloud, chill winds,…
Beato Angelico (Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Florence)
WHO is the patron saint of bursars?* Colleges, cathedrals and conventual houses all need bursars, but Jesus’s teaching (Matthew 24.24) does not recommend an obvious CV. None in the echelons of paradise came to mind. As one of…
12 Advent Stations (Chelmsford Cathedral)
TWELVE Advent Stations are composed of sonnets rendered calligraphically and read by actors, alongside paintings on assemblages formed by domestic utensils; they form a circular journey, the last word of each poem featuring…
Made in Ancient Egypt (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
THIS exhibition introduces us to the stone workers, potters, glass- and faience- makers, metalworkers, jewellers, woodworkers, those who grew and prepared papyrus, joiners, and coffin-makers working in Egypt up until the…
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