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Eighteenth-Century Carved and Gilded Panelling
These beautiful eighteenth-century carved and gilded panels from Ditchely Park in Oxfordshire had been moved in the 1950s from their original location to the then newly created Lecture Theatre at the house. At that time [...]
20th Century Paintings, Balliol College, Oxford
The Gilbert Spencer paintings at Holywell Manor, Balliol College, Oxford depict the Foundation legend of Balliol. They were painted between 1934 and 1936 when Spencer was a student at the college. The paintings cover all [...]
Conservation Laser Cleaning in Cairo’s City of the Dead
The shrine of Ikhwat Yusuf (AD 1125-50) is a rare Fatimid mausoleum located in Cairo’s City of the Dead. It is one of Egypt’s very few surviving Fatimid buildings to contain a decorated and carved [...]