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Nov 9, 2017 · The Picts. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Picts who, according to Bede, formed one of the five nations of Britain, with the English, Britons, Scots and Latins, but who disappeared. Show more ...
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pablo Picasso's Guernica,...
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and no one has done more to explore their meanings than Isabel Henderson. Across Scotland there are some 12 or so such presumed gravestones, though none has yet been found in association with a contemporary grave. Meigle has four examples, numbers 9, 11, 12 and 26. Generally they are wedge-shaped, tapering towards the foot end.
George David Smith Henderson (born 1931 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British art historian, author, and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries of London (elected January 1975) [1] and a member of the Association of Art Historians. [2] He was awarded the Reginald Taylor ...
Sep 17, 2022 · Isabel (Isabella) Waugh was born on the 7th of February 1873 in Redpath, Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England. She was the daughter of Thomas Waugh (1821-1882) and Anne nee Henderson. The English Census of 1891 shows Isabella, aged 18yrs, living as a housekeeper to her brother, William Henderson/Waugh, a shepherd. She arrived in Australia between 1891-1894. In […]
Isabel Henderson is one of the leading authorities on the Picts and their culture. Her The Picts quickly became one of the essential introductions to the subject. Her many studies of Pictish art - most notably the splendid St. Andrews Sarcophagus and the massive base of the Hilton of Cadboll cross-slab - have transformed understanding of early Medieval artistic contacts.
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Dr Isabel Henderson - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Honorary Fellows. Dr Isabel Henderson. OBE MA PhD HonFSAScot. Isabel Henderson was the Society’s Rhind Lecturer in 1976-77. Studied at Newnham College Cambridge, was Fellow and Director of Studies of History of Art, and then H.M. Chadwick Memorial Lecturer 1996. She has published ...
Nov 28, 2011 · The Art of the Picts: Sculpture and Metalwork in Early Medieval Scotland, George and Isabel Henderson, (Thames & Hudson, London 2011) 256pp., paperback, £28.00 ISBN 978 0 500 289 63 1 (first published in hardback, 2004)George Henderson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge, and Isobel Henderson, sometime Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, have written many ...
