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Politics and Painting: Murals and Conflict in Northern Ireland

Abstract: Politics and Painting is a study of wall murals in Northern Ireland. The core argument is that the art of wall mural painting is influenced by the political conflict in Northern Ireland.

The Lost Mappamundi at Chalivoy-Milon

Abstract: One of the most extensive ensembles of twelfth-century mural painting still extant in France has recently been reconstituted in the Church of SaintSilvain at Chalivoy-Milon (Cher), a small village located about forty kilometers southwest of Bourges. During the late 1970s and 1980s, conservation work carried out under the auspices of Monuments Historiques recovered the entire chevet program (Figs. 1-2), a portion of which was first discovered in February 1868.1 The stunning exposure of a complex, predominantly Christological cycle at Chalivoy-Milon sparked my interest in nineteenth-century reports of painted decoration once visible in the nave. That lost painting is the focus of the present study.2

The Yuan Buddhist Mural of the Paradise of Bhaiṣajyaguru

Abstract: A MONUMENTAL BUDDHIST MURAL in The Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting the Paradise of Bhaisajyaguru (Figure 1) has long been mistaken as the Assembly of Sakyamuni.' Problems concerning its function, date, and stylistic position in the pictorial tradition of Chinese Buddhist art have not yet been solved. The present essay attempts to clarify these and some closely related issues, including the date of a Maitreya mural in Toronto, the origin of Tejaprabha Buddha, and the school of Zhu HaoguA (see Glossary for the Chinese characters keyed to the superscript letters). The Metropolitan Museum's mural came from the eastern gable wall of the Main Hall of the Guangsheng Lower Monastery (Guangsheng XiasiB), one of the two compounds of a Buddhist monastery known as Guangsheng Sic, which is situated about fourteen and a half miles southeast of the county seat of Zhaocheng County in the Huo Mountains of southern Shanxi Province (Figure 2). The other compound is the Guangsheng Upper Monastery (Guangsheng ShangsiD). The two compounds are located about a mile apart, with the Upper Monastery on a hillside and the Lower Monastery at the foot of the hill.2

William Morris Hunt, 1824-1879

Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Early life, travel and training abroad 2 Newport and Boston 3 Second European trip and teaching in Boston 4 Years of recovery and renewal: 1873-1878 5 Hunt's mural paintings and his last years 6 Hunt and art in America Notes Selected bibliography