The Bowes Museum, with a covering of snow last month, will undergo a full building survey Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT A MUSEUM will undergo a detailed survey to find out what work is needed to protect the Grade I listed building and its world famous collections. The Bowes Museum has been awarded £20,000 from the Heritage Stimulus Fund to undertake a full condition survey in order to develop a five-year maintenance plan and start a fundraising campaign to carry out any necessary work. The grants are designed to protect heritage sites and ensure that jobs and access to culture and heritage in local communities are protected during and after the Covid pandemic, as well as protecting livelihoods for some of the most vulnerable heritage specialists and contractors working in the sector.
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Over the past year we ve had to learn a baffling new language.
The politicians, scientists and specialist correspondents seem to take their cue from Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll s Through The Looking-Glass.
Words mean whatever they want them to mean.
If you struggle to tell your pandemics from your pangolins, and you don t know your R-rate from your elbow bump, this column has compiled a comprehensive A-Z guide to Covid-19.
Enjoy.
If you struggle to tell your pandemics from your pangolins, and you don t know your R-rate from your elbow bump, this column has compiled a comprehensive A-Z guide to Covid-19
28 Feb 2021
SINT AND SINNER: Above, St Jerome in the Wilderness, by Andrea Solario
In the latest of her regular columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer
LONG before he met Joséphine, John Bowes was buying paintings. In 1830, aged 19, he made a brief Grand Tour of the continent and acquired his first painting, the Temptation of St Anthony. By 1844 he had bought 57 artworks, ranging from Italian pre-Renaissance to Dutch 17th century, as well as some 15th century art.
One of his purchases of 1841, and displayed in the religious picture gallery in The Bowes Museum, is St Jerome in the Wilderness, by Andrea Solario, one of the most talented pupils of the great Leonardo da Vinci.