The story of the Bayeux Tapestry its origins and making, but also its long and dramatic afterlife, fromthe 1066 to Napoleon, Nazi raids and modern adverts.
The Bayeux Tapestry has been a constant fascination throughout Carola Hicks's career.She studied archaeology and art history at Edinburgh University, and then went on to write her PhD thesis on animal decorations in medieval art, including the Bayeux Tapestry. Later, as a research fellow at Cambridge University, she began to look at how Christian art adopted pagan animal themes, and wrote her first book, Animals in Early Medieval Art. When she was Curator of the Stained Glass Museum at Ely, she wrote Discovering Stained Glass. Carola is now Staff Tutor in Art History at the Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge University, concentrating on nineteenth and twentieth century art. The reception of women's art has become a major interest for her, and in 2001 she wrote the acclaimed Improper Pursuits, a biography of the eighteenth-century artist and designer Lady Di Beauclerk.
"I was bowled over... It is a book full of page-turning vignettes."-Simon Young, "Sunday Telegraph""From the Trade Paperback edition."
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