NYTIMES (Jason Farago) - Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry
The medieval masterpiece has traveled from France to England for a once-in-a-lifetime show. It is not what our critic Jason Farago expected.
NYTIMES (Alex Marshall) - British Museum Opens Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition
On Thursday, the British Museum opened its blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, its most eagerly anticipated show in decades.
NYTIMES (Alex Marshall) - Where to See the World’s Bayeux Tapestry Replicas
There are full-size replicas in a U.S. sports arena, an abbey in Denmark and a home in rural New Zealand. There’s even a more modest version for those who don’t like the original’s nudity.
AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - British Museum curator says Bayeux Tapestry scene hides a royal affair that could undermine the Norman Conquest
A British Museum curator argues that a mysterious scene in the nearly 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry depicts a royal sex scandal designed to discredit William the Conqueror's claim to the English throne. Michael Lewis, a curator at the British Museum, laid out his case on the HistoryExtra podcast: a single embroidered vignette, a clergyman touching a […] The post British Museum curator says Bayeux Tapestry scene hides a royal affair that could undermine the Norman Conquest appeared first on American Almanac .
A British Museum curator argues that a mysterious scene in the nearly 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry depicts a royal sex scandal designed to discredit William the Conqueror's claim to the English throne. Michael Lewis, a curator at the British Museum, laid out his case on the HistoryExtra podcast: a single embroidered vignette, a clergyman touching a noblewoman's face while a naked man watches from below, is not decoration or allegory. It is, Lewis contends, a deliberate smear against Emma of Normandy, the queen whose bloodline gave William his justification for invading England in 1066. If Lewis is right, the tapestry's anonymous creators stitched a political attack into one of the most famous artifacts in Western history, one that sat…Open
NYTIMES (Alex Marshall) - How the Bayeux Tapestry Got to the British Museum
French art experts insisted the fragile 900-year-old masterpiece could never travel. Political will, cutting-edge engineering and unorthodox diplomacy proved them wrong.
NYTIMES (Alex Marshall) - Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in U.K. After Maximum-Security Operation
The 11th-century tapestry will go on display at the British Museum in September. Tickets for the exhibition have already been selling rapidly.