Join acclaimed art historian and one of the leading art critics in the world, Andrew Graham-Dixon for a fascinating lecture, Passion and Resurrection: The Purging of Art in the Reformation. At this exclusive Member lecture, Andrew will take attendees on a visual journey through art, showing some of the art depicting scenes of the Passion of Christ which have been lost to English churches. Along the way we will view art thought to have been lost during the Reformation but rediscovered centuries later hidden under layers of puritan whitewash, we will attempt to picture what churches once might have looked like before the Reformation and we will learn why art in churches was so methodically targeted by iconoclasts.
Join our Conservation Manager for the West region, Meriel O'Dowd, as she explores the various successes and challenges CCT have faced saving historic churches, and get an insight into future churches coming our way.
Vespasiano da Bisticci was “the king of the world’s booksellers.” Born in humble circumstances in Florence in 1422, he became the biggest manuscript dealer in fifteenth-century Europe. His clients included kings, popes and princes, as well as three generations of the Medici. He created magnificen...
In late 1348, the Black Death entered London. Over the next 9 months, it ravaged the populace killing thousands. This paper provides a detailed look at its arrival, spread and eventual disappearance, and looks at some of the archaeological and architectural evidence for its passage, its final dea...
