Dr Christina Faraday

My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Thinking about organising some more public tours of the Cambridgeshire Collection store next year - give some more people the chance to look around the stacks. Would you be interested?

I enjoyed Robert Ryman at the Barbican so much I started a substack, let’s see how long this lasts. cjfaraday.substack.com/p/sixty-shad...

Doubly saddened to learn today that this means the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers scheme has been indefinitely "paused". For me and for many arts & humanities academics, being an NGT was an opportunity to share ideas with BBC viewers and listeners, and it created so much great public scholarship.

Truly sad, though sadly not truly surprised, to see this. Free Thinking is a great programme, and for many years was a rare and wonderful space for the discussion of ideas by artists, activists, and academics, and somewhere that took research and thinking seriously.

Got hitched!

"I believe that most people are continually harmed by their daily lives, as most people’s daily lives are on the computer or their smartphones, and those lives have been stripped of dignity." www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

I think about this essay a lot. About the low-level stress & aggravation literally everything is now designed to incite & maintain. What this constant emotional histamine response to our digital-logistical environment does to us, how it degrades our days. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Be the 30,000th! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

enjoying the BBC live feed on the Renoir thefts. Police updates interspersed with postcritical musings on the impact of Renoir on the reporters' own lives(!)

THE WRONG FUCKING PEOPLE ARE DYING! www.instagram.com/reel/DceNXgP...

Did you know our Linda Parry Textile Research and Conservation Grants make awards of £500-£5,000 to churches, chapels & other places of UK worship for the research & conservation of textiles?! Next deadline is 31 August, apply now! www.sal.org.uk/what-we-do/g...

Anyway, some seventeenth-century academics would probably be right at home in the modern university, like John Ellys aka The Devil of Caius (incidentally a friend of Newton).

However you're watching the eclipse, spare a thought for Taddeo Gaddi, author of the first real 'night scene' in Western art. Gaddi's obsession with light & celestial effects apparently caused him to stare too long at the 1330 eclipse, causing permanent sight damage. A warning from art history!

However you're watching the eclipse, spare a thought for Taddeo Gaddi, author of the first real 'night scene' in Western art. Gaddi's obsession with light & celestial effects apparently caused him to stare too long at the 1330 eclipse, causing permanent sight damage. A warning from art history!

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

And that one was for Harold Godwinson!

A timeless Cambridge scene, one that Rupert Brooke would recognise: "Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through, / Beside the river make for you / A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep / Deeply above; and green and deep / The robot lawnmower glides beneath."

✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

and what better example of the confluence of voyaging & pearl earrings in 1590s portraiture than this fabulous painting of Robert Dudley (the younger), currently on rare public display at the Philip Mould Gallery in London 🦪

'Working demonstrates that, in fact, much of what we imagine to be the typical Renaissance and baroque aesthetic can be linked to influences emerging from the Americas.' The New Statesman reviews A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social ✨

Thank you @cjfaraday.bsky.social for this New Statesman review of #AGoldenWorld alongside Nandini Das’ This Little World! #earlymodern 🦜

Let's goooooooo 📕

Sadly damaged frescoes in Hall of the Liberal Arts & Planets, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno. Must have been amazing when Gentile da Fabriano first painted them! Today is his day.

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Anyone else want to do a creative writing workshop with me, focusing on writing scintillating historical fiction? #CreativeWriting #HistFic #BookSky #WritingWorkshop

Feeling very seen and supported by the fact that my dynamic wallpaper regards 9am as dawn.

On now!

Listen as I probe the depths of Robert Dudley’s beard with @cathyfitzg.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4’s Moving Pictures at 4pm today or anytime afterwards on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today in Cambridge!

Last few days to see Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at @downingcollege.bsky.social Cambridge! I'm running a Curator's Tour tomorrow lunchtime 12:30-1:15pm, and the show is open 12-5pm every day until Sunday. Don't miss it!

I’m having a day off which means I’m sitting on the sofa eating Easter chocolate and reading my new etymological dictionary.

Magnificent cloth of gold and red silk damask velvet cope commissioned by Henry VII late 15th century, likely worn by Wolsey in France in 1521 📷2021 the Stonyhurst vestments at Hampton Court ‘Gold and Glory’ exhibition #textiletuesday #Tudortuesday

This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...