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Art Historian + Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History @UniKentHistory + @MEMS_UKC

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Iznik dish with the Virgin and Child, tulips and carnations, c1650

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with anatomical exactitude, influenced by Vesalian studies of the opened, exposed human body. Michaelangelo achieved something similar in 1536 in his wall painting in the Sistine Chapel, but his Bartholomew is resurrected in the flesh at the Last Judgment, clutching his...

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Loving the last day of & I esp enjoyed hearing on the new projects , where my favourite MS (Life of St Alban) by Matthew Paris is held

Just look at the executioner's 'Ren & Stimpy eye-pop' in the martyrdom👀

https://t.co/ICyV0HcrU4

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I've been working on the cults (Muslim & Christian) of St Louis at Carthage & Tunis since 2010. Here's the now-lost chapelle de Saint-Louis, its interior & the current location of its cult statue, erected over his deathbed (steps away from Dido's pyre)– come hear more today @ 5pm https://t.co/ulZaIXPpTk

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In another timeline, I’d be taking my students around medieval churches in Rome this week.
I wish they could hear the water running through the Mithraeum in S Clemente & listen to the nuns sing in Sta Pudenziana. I wish I could sneak them into the Vatican (hopefully next year🤞)

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As of today, my parents are vaccinated and they can finally leave the house. Here’s the last photo of us together, before hospitals and the pandemic. We went to the El Greco show and marvelled at his silvery, sinewy saints. That was so long ago. Can’t wait to see them again ❤️

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On 21 February 1173, Thomas Becket became a saint, just 3 years after his brutal murder inside Canterbury Cathedral. We have hundreds of extant artworks & artefacts that testify to the immediate popularity of his cult

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Whenever I introduce my students to relics, I love to ref Egeria (when someone bites the True Cross in Jerusalem), Hugh of Lincoln (who bit off the finger of Mary Magdalene), & share this from Maurice Sendak – 'he saw, he loved it, he ate it'

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When it’s T-12 days until the start of a new term and your computer keeps crashing 😳🐄
Here’s Titian’s Europa c1560s, beautifully displayed in and kept in

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Andrea di Bonaiuto’s lively c1360s frescoes in Sta Maria Novella (Florence) are Dominican vision of the Church Triumphant, w/a contemporary pilgrim (nice badges!), a portrait of Averroes, and a view of the Duomo (before Brunelleschi)

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