Stagecoach: Popular City Sightseeing bus tours return to Cambridge for first time in over a year
The big red buses are returning to Cambridge this weekend
Ready for the return of tourists, audio-guides are available in nine languages (Image: RMG Photography)
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Stagecoach’s sightseeing buses are returning to Cambridge for the first time in over a year, the company announced today, May 26.
Infrared Imaging Reveals Medieval Prayer Book Painting
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
Live Science reports that scientists at the University of Cambridge used near-infrared imaging to examine a dark spot on a page in an illustrated Christian prayer book commissioned in 1431 by Yolande of Aragon, the duchess of Anjou. The duchess gave the prayer book to her daughter, Yolande of Anjou, who married Duke Francis I of Brittany in 1431. The young woman died in 1440. The study revealed that an image of Yolande of Anjou kneeling in prayer before the Virgin Mary had been concealed by a later painting of the duke’s second wife, Isabella Steward of Scotland, who is also depicted kneeling in prayer before the Madonna. The fourth-century saint, Catherine of Alexandria, is shown beside Isabella. “At the death of his first wife, Francis may have taken control of the prayer book and ordered it to be customized to best suit Isabella,” said Suzanne Reynolds, curator of manuscripts at the universit
Cambridgeshire s top tourists attractions that are now open to visitors
Most of the county s major indoor attractions are now open
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It s been a tough few months of lockdown, but with restrictions easing across the country, we re finally getting back to some sort of normality.
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Published 20th May 2021
Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French ruler erased his deceased wife from art history
Written by Maev Kennedy
This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style.
It was a tragedy for Francis I of Brittany when his wife Yolande of Anjou died in 1440. But she was soon replaced both as his wife and in her own prayer book, where her image and coat of arms were painted over and replaced with those of her successor.
Yolande had appeared as a tiny figure kneeling before the Virgin Mary on one of the most glorious pages of her magnificent Book of Hours, now one of the treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK.
20 May 2021
Researchers discovered this image of Yolande of Anjou, the late wife of the Duke of Brittany. Yolande is shown kneeling and praying before the Virgin Mary. When the duke married Isabella Stewart, an image of Stewart was painted over that of Yolande.
(Image credit: Fitzwilliam Museum)
A hidden image in an ornately illustrated 15th-century prayer book reveals that the duke of Brittany at the time painted over an image of his dead wife with his then-current wife, researchers have found. The story behind the medieval wife swap is somewhat tragic.
This particular Book of Hours, as such Christian devotional books were called, was commissioned in 1431 by Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442), who was the duchess of Anjou, in France. She gave it to her daughter Yolande of Anjou (1412-1440) when the daughter married Duke Francis I of Brittany in 1431. The couple had a son who died in childhood, and Yolande herself died in 1440.