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Article: Recent art books
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- December 18, 2004
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Recent art books
This year's crop of art books for Christmas is the usual mixed hunch, and if they have anything in common, it is their general lack of festive associations. The one exception is M. A. Michael's Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral (Scala, £25), a beautifully illustrated picture book with an exemplary and truly instructive text, which includes the Magi not having a notably cold coming of it among its panoply of more and less familiar religious scenes. Naturally, the lion's share of the images is of mediaeval glass, and they are accompanied by handy diagrams detailing exactly which pieces are replaced or repainted, but more recent additions, such as Sir Ninian Comper's ...
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