Early Buddhist Manuscripts: The Palm-Leaf Tradition is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through November 16.

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“Albrecht Dürer: Art in Transition” will be on display at The Museum of Biblical Art through September 21.

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“Hadrian: Empire and Conflict” will be on display at the British Museum through October 26.

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Love, an exhibition at the National Gallery (through October 5) of art from the 15th century to the present day, explores how artists have represented this most powerful of emotions.

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At long last, an update! But just a few bullet points & highlights, I’m afraid. More later; juggling summer coursework and other projects, including updates to the linkspages.

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A New World: England’s first view of America, a travelling exhibit from the British Museum, closes the American leg of its tour starting today at Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, where it will be on display through October 15.

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The silver medieval pendant crucifix – thought to date from the late 15th or early 16th century – is double-sided with the figure of Christ on the front and an image of the Virgin and child on the reverse.
(Lakeland Echo)

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A fascinating new book about the Border Reivers shatters the popular perception that the lawless families of the North were indigenous.
In fact, they were little more than thugs imported to protect the border lands by Edward III.
And it was an idea that went as disastrously awry as Frankenstein’s monster, says author Julia Grint.
“During the 14th […]

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For centuries, the she-wolf has been one of Rome’s most powerful symbols. But now some experts are contending that the bronze statue in a city museum atop Capitoline Hill might not be so old after all.
New theories suggest that the statue dates from the Middle Ages, and not from Etruscan times, as has long been […]

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An edition of Shakespeare’s first folio stolen 10 years ago has been recovered after a British man took it into an American library to have it valued.
The folio, printed in 1623 and valued at up to £15million, was among a number of valuable books and manuscripts taken from the Durham University Library in December 1998.
A […]

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