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Exhibition: Notre-Dame of Paris: Photographs and images from the Conway Library at the Courtauld.
Lindy Grant, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading and Tom Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, have created an online exhibition of images of Notre-Dame de Paris from the collections of the Conway Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art.This exhibition consists of texts and engravings by British…See More
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Exhibition: Notre-Dame of Paris: Photographs and images from the Conway Library at the Courtauld.
Lindy Grant, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading and Tom Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, have created an online exhibition of images of Notre-Dame de Paris from the collections of the Conway Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
This exhibition consists of texts and…
ContinuePosted on September 12, 2019 at 13:30
Death of Dom Angelico Surchamp on 1 March 2018
Many will not have heard of Dom Angelico Surchamp, because his name did not appear in the credits for his photographs. He was a monk at the abbey of La Pierre-qui-vire in Burgundy. He was the moving spirit behind the Zodiaque series of books on Romanesque, which on any measure is the largest collection of published photographs of Romanesque architecture and sculpture. As André Malraux observed, it was "a very big thing". It was the photographs that made the books, beautifully printed,…
ContinuePosted on March 3, 2018 at 13:00
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