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Hope and Healing
Franco Mormando discusses the first exhibition in North America to examine the response of visual art to the plague.
The Art of Armenia
Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. Christina Maranci discusses…
Designing Energy Use in a Rural Setting
Standen, built between 1891 and 1894, is known as the first country house to have had electric lighting…
Robert Peel, John Doyle and Visual Parody
For the last three hundred years British politics have been enlivened and illustrated by wonderful satirical prints and…
Migrating objects: John Henry Foley and empire
Fintan Cullen considers the equestrian statue of a Raj military figure James Outram which was erected in central…
Parliament as theatre
Fintan Cullen examines a painting produced in Dublin in 1780 of the interior of the Irish House of…
The Art of Anglo-Saxon England
Two particular perspectives inform this wide-ranging and richly illustrated survey of the art produced in England, or by…
Hoards, hoarders, and other broken things
Catherine Karkov is Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Her interests lie in the art…
Postcolonising the medieval image
Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of…
Temporarily Accessioned: Freud’s Coat Revisited
Temporarily Accessioned: Freud’s Coat Revisited by the artist and researcher Paul Coldwell, is an opportunity to present new…
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