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Lace Mills and the Last Supper: A Window in Beeston Parish Church

March 11, 2017

In a previous blog piece, I mentioned the habit some renaissance painters had, of painting saints and other figures from …

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Paint, Time and Paradox: A Stroll Round the Ashmolean

March 4, 2017

A few weeks ago we were in Oxford, and had a couple of spare hours so went to the Ashmolean …

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The Spade and the Neckline: How Do You Sculpt A Misunderstanding?

February 10, 2016

How do you sculpt a misunderstanding? That was a question which confronted me delightfully in a couple of objects in …

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In Days To Come The Churches May Be Fuller: Victorians, Female Priests, and Satire

July 4, 2015

To celebrate all the ordinations at this time of year (not to mention the new female bishops in the Church …

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The Toddler and the Scroll: the Literal and Symbolic in Christianity (and a Painting)

January 1, 2015

Toddlers can’t read Latin prophecies.  This appears to be the basic insight of this remarkable painting I wandered past in …

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About the Body: Francis Bacon and Henry Moore at the Ashmolean

September 28, 2013

We[1] went to the Bacon and Moore exhibition after brunch, making all the inevitable jokes about fancying some Moore Bacon …

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In Defence of FEELS, or, Art and Affect

February 12, 2013

I forget which of my friends suggested that “this new use of the word ‘feels’ instead of ‘emotions’” could usefully …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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