Christina J Faraday is a research fellow in history of art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the author of Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England (Paul Mellon Centre).
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
How Raphael gave the Virgin Mary more to do
In the works of Raphael the Virgin Mary often plays a more active and more joyful role than she is allowed by other artists