Speaker Notes
Dr Pamela Tudor Craig FSA is a Medieval Art Historian with a foot in the Christian camp. Having been educated in a French Convent, religion has been the natural priority, as it was to all our Medieval ancestors. She has done the usual things Medieval Art Historians do – writing, teaching, plus some extra ones, like serving on the Cathedrals Advisory Commission, the Westminster Abbey Committee, and many other committees of the Council of the Care of Churches. She belonged, while it was going, to the Community of Little Gidding.
In 1986, Pamela Tudor Craig and Richard Foster collaborated in the BBC television series ‘The Secret Life of Paintings’ (published as The Secret Life of Paintings, Boydell Press, 1986). The talk will be exploring the inner landscape of meaning of this early sixteenth century Bosch painting as well as its contemporary relevance, with insights into the philosophical, religious and political climate of their time – the ‘secret life’ common to much medieval and renaissance painting.