Medieval History
Virgin Mother & Child Jesus, originally uploaded by Lawrence OP.
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Medieval History
Virgin Mother & Child Jesus
Virgin Mother & Child Jesus, originally uploaded by Lawrence OP.
This is such a lovely image of Our Lady and the Child Jesus, that I couldn't resist posting it here. Lawrence OP has captured superbly the central image of the lady chapel reredos in All Saints, Margaret Street. No prizes for guessing that the work is by Sir Ninian Comper. It dates from 1909.
Lawrence has also captured the image in context here:
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An 15th century Ethiopian icon of the infant Christ child sitting on his mother's knee was discovered after it was cleaned by a British charity. The central panel of the triptych had over the centuries become blackened with the sprinkling of perfume...
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Angel holding the arma christi, a shield charged with the five wounds. It is unusual to see this subject in colour, usually it is rendered in yellow stain. This image from Lawrence Lew's wonderful photostream, is taken from a panel of fifteenth...
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One of my favourite images of Our Lady is the poster 'Our Lady of London' which was designed in 1935 by Martin Travers. I took this photo of it from a surviving copy hanging in a Nottinghamshire church. Our Lady has twelve stars around her...
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Dorchester, St Birinus Catholic Church, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The tiny Roman Catholic church of St Birinus in Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, has undergone a radical transformation over the course of the last three of four...
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