The Sacred Images Project

Sacred Art Gifts; Christmas is Coming

A few shop updates for readers

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November 2025

How to avoid post-Christmas let-down and Black January; leaning into Advent

A repost for the season

Nov 28 • 

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How we got to Romanesque; Cluny and the "mad" new monastic idea

Towering Figures of the Middle Ages: Willliam of Aquitaine, founder of Cluny

Nov 22 • 

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Lindisfarne: northern Christianity's Library of Alexandria

British Saints series Part 5 - The Holy Isle

Nov 13 • 

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When Religious Art Isn't Sacred

That Tintoretto is very emotionally moving, but that doesn't make it sacred art

Nov 7 • 

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The Light Fades: After the Golden Age

Part 3 of our walk through the Perugia National Gallery

Nov 5 • 

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October 2025

The Island Between Worlds: Celtic and Roman Christianity in 600 AD

British saints series Part 4: We look at the deep history, geometry and mystical grace of Celtic art

Oct 24 • 

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The transition from Italo-Byzantine to Sienese Gothic

A walk through the Perugia National Gallery - Part 2

Oct 18 • 

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Canterbury Cathedral: the idea of a sacred building still matters

Tedious, childish and exhausted: officially sanctioned transgression worth no more than an eye-roll

Oct 15 • 

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Boethius and his Consolation of Philosophy

Towering figures of the early middle ages: who built our civilisation, and why?

Oct 9 • 

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The Sacred Painters of Umbria and Siena: from the Duecento to the Renaissance

A walk through the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia - Part 1

Oct 8 • 

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September 2025

"Not Angles, but angels" - Romans return to a changed Britain

Part 3, in which Gregory the Great and Augustine of Canterbury meet the pagan Saxons

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