Category: Art
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Anglo-Saxon stone and Roman sarcophagus
Gardener unearths Anglo-Saxon carving in job lot of rockery stone Looking for some natural stone for a rockery in his garden, John Wyatt thought he had found a bargain when he saw a job lot advertised for £50. He was more right than he knew. For when he took the ton and a half of…
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Roman eagle sculpture
Roman eagle rises again, after 4,000 years under London street Sculpture probably adorned the tomb of an important figure Archaeologists in London have discovered the finest Romano-British sculpture ever unearthed in the capital. The spectacular 65 centimetre tall sculpture of a Roman eagle with a snake in its beak was found at the bottom of…
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Palaeolithic cave art, Gower
AN ANCIENT cave which proves the existence of human life in Wales more than 12,000 years ago is set to receive greater protection from heritage body Cadw after vandals destroyed 70% of its archeological secrets. The Gower site is home to Britain’s oldest recorded Palaeolithic cave art – but much of it has been destroyed…
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Brontë portraits
Rare painting of the three Bronte sisters due to go under the hammer at Northamptonshire auction AN auctioneer is aiming to secure a rare hat-trick by selling an “important” picture thought to depict all three Bronte sisters. Jonathon Humbert, of JP Humbert Auctioneers, based in Towcester, says he is confident the painting, which he claims…
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Sir Charles Bell’s watercolours
The harsh reality of war and nineteenth-century surgery is encountered in the anatomical watercolours of Charles Bell. They depict his patients and their injuries, especially the horrific wounds dealt with by army surgeons in Wellington’s army. “Johnnie! How can we let this pass? Here is such an occasion of seeing gun-shot wounds come to…
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Jane Austen ‘lost portrait’
Jane Austen biographer discovers ‘lost portrait’ Jane Austen scholar Dr Paula Byrne claims to have discovered a lost portrait of the author which, far from depicting a grumpy spinster, shows a writer at the height of her powers and a woman comfortable in her own skin. The only accepted portraits of Austen to date are …
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WW1 poppies
Poppy plucked from the trenches goes on show BRITAIN’S oldest remembrance day poppy was on show for the first time yesterday. Private Cecil Roughton was just 17 when he picked the flower during a bloody battle in Arras, France, in May 1916 [1917?]. The soldier, from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, kept it in his notebook…
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Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
Mellon Gallery Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB Wed 5 October 2011 to Sun 15 January 2012 At the heart of this visually stunning exhibition is Vermeer’s extraordinary painting The Lacemaker (c.1669-70) – one of the Musée du Louvre’s most famous works, rarely seen outside Paris and now…
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St. Baudime reliquary
Pardonez moi mes petites cauliflowers, this was the only news version of this I could find a ce moment. I could not find an English one, but scroll down for my translation: De Saint-Nectaire au British Museum: l’étonnant voyage de saint Baudime LONDRES — La petite ville auvergnate de Saint-Nectaire, dans le centre de la…
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New improved XRF
X-ray technique peers beneath archaeology’s surface Striking discoveries in archaeology are being made possible by strong beams of X-rays, say researchers. A report at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, showed how X-ray sources known as synchrotrons can unravel an artefact’s mysteries. Light given off after an X-ray blast yields a neat list…
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