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But despite the high price, Huntington’s 15th-century Bible was incomplete. In 1825, an auctioneer had removed three devotional prints contained within the Bible’s pages since the 1450s to ...
The 52-year-old has been on the road since 2019 with a remarkable early 17th century work, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, painted by Italian baroque painter, Michelangelo Merisi, more popular as the ...
One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought ...
Residents of Askrigg, Wensleydale, labelled the limewash render an “abomination” and “hideous eyesore” after the scaffolding and plastic sheeting was pulled down this week. The Rev Dave ...
Furious residents in a quiet Yorkshire Dales village have labelled a 15th century church as an 'abomination' which can be seen for miles. Askrigg is best known as the quintessential rural idyll of ...
An exhibition of precious Italian tapestries ... selection of parade and ceremonial weapons and armour from the 16th century, these monumental tapestries take visitors into the world of ...
A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...
among the canvases of early 20 th-century Italian avant-garde painters, a striking red seaplane. It is a scale replica of the Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72, which allowed Italian test pilot Francesco ...
A village is furious with its vicar for having a 15th-century church tower rendered in white, making it "an abomination" which can be seen for miles. Askrigg, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales ...
They studied hundreds of historical texts and their mood boards took inspiration from Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s paintings of deities and affluent 19th-century families. Their most valuable ...