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Alex Naszados
- Mar 25, 2019
- 1 min
The Unicorn and Thomas Chaucer
The latest addition to the "Medieval Effigies" series is based on the other effigy on Matilda Burghersh's tomb. Thomas Chaucer...
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Alex Naszados
- Mar 6, 2019
- 1 min
Matilda Burghersh (1382-1436)
Oil on carved wood, 2019 27" x 9" by Alex Naszados based on the brass effigy of Matilda Burghersh (1382-1436) at St. Mary the Virgin...
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Alex Naszados
- Jan 8, 2019
- 1 min
Ralph Hamsterley: Memento Mori
Before his death, Ralph Hamsterley commissioned this “memento mori” brass effigy. It is now embedded in the floor of St. Andrew’s Church,...
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Alex Naszados
- Sep 22, 2017
- 2 min
St John's Chalice and The Golden Legend
The brass effigy of Sir Simon de Wensley (d. 1394) is still situated in Holy Trinity Church (Wensley, North Yorkshire), where he was...
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Alex Naszados
- Mar 13, 2017
- 1 min
Monarchy
As I wrote in my previous blog post, the last two additions to the Medieval Monuments series (the shrouded husband and wife) constitute a...
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Alex Naszados
- Oct 22, 2016
- 1 min
Memento Mori
Shroud and skeletal brasses are a smaller subset of brasses, and a rather morbid one. These often show emaciated or skeletal figures...
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Alex Naszados
- Sep 8, 2016
- 1 min
Robert de Waldeby, Archbishop of Dublin
After two pieces depicting knights, I turned my attention to the brass monument of Alyne Clopton (1325). The original image suggests to...
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Alex Naszados
- Jul 4, 2016
- 2 min
Ermine Spots and Rampant Lions: Sir Robert de Bures
At the left is the next piece in the medieval monument group (now in the early carving stage). The similarities to the (now complete)...
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Alex Naszados
- May 27, 2016
- 2 min
Work on the First "Medieval Effigies" Piece Progresses...
I have graduated from carving to painting with the first piece in the "Medieval Effigies" project. The man here is Sir Robert de Septvans...
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