Winchester’s Holy Sepulchre Chapel and Byzantium
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Tuesday 2 October 2018
(6 pm) - The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT
- Lecturer: Cecily Hennessy
It is widely recognised that Byzantine iconography is present in a small chapel set into the north aisle of Winchester Cathedral known as the Holy Sepulchre Chapel, due to its iconography and its supposed function in connection with the Easter liturgy.
This paper connects features of the iconography to events in Constantinople during the reign of Manuel I (1143-80) and goes further to suggest a western patron who had close connections with Manuel and the East.
Lecturer
Dr Cecily Hennessy received her doctorate in Byzantine Art History from the Courtauld Institute and after working at the Courtauld joined Christie’s Education, where she became Academic Director. She has taught and published widely on representations of children and the family in yzantine art as well as on the architecture and paintings of Constantinople, Jerusalem and Ravenna. She has also focused on connections between Byzantine and western art. She has recently co-edited a book published by Courtauld Books Online on the Cloisters Cross (2026), and published a book on imperial child brides in Byzantium and beyond with Arc Humanities (2026).
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