text by Paweł Rutkowski The Royal Collection contains an extraordinary picture of Christ as “Salvator Mundi”, a copy from 1798 of the painting by the Baroque Italian artist Carlo Dolci. What makes this replica unusual is that it was not painted but… embroidered. The artist who produced it was Mary Linwood (1755-1845), who was undoubtedly […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, photos by Dorota Babilas, Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, Paweł Rutkowski Last month, we were hosting another From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference. The theme of QAQV9 was the past which, according to the well-known line by William Faulkner, “is never dead” and is “not even past”. It was the second conference organised […]
text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz This year the annual British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS) Conference was held from September 3rd until September 5th in Leicester and was hosted by the University of Leicester. With around 300 participants and a variety of scholars from different fields – from economics to history to culture – it was […]
