{"id":41661,"date":"2024-12-10T16:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41661"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:53:28","slug":"ihbc-welcomes-new-addition-to-members-publications-listing-dr-kathryn-davies-ihbc-on-vernacular-wall-paintings-in-the-welsh-marches-1550-1650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41661","title":{"rendered":"IHBC welcomes new addition to members\u2019 publications listing: Dr Kathryn Davies IHBC on \u2018Vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550\u20131650\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kathryn Davies\u2019 Artisan Art: Vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550\u20131650<\/em> is a revised & updated edition (August 2024) of the original 2008 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

This richly-illustrated book explores and describes the rich diversity of decoration found in domestic wall paintings, the materials used, the craftsmen responsible and the costs involved.
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Publisher LogastonPress writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This richly-illustrated book explores and describes the rich diversity of decoration found in domestic wall paintings, the materials used, the craftsmen responsible and the costs involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the late sixteenth century and first decade or so of the seventeenth century, most households, even those of limited means, had painted decoration in their homes, in the form of wall paintings. This short-lived but widespread phenomenon offers rare insights into the lives of ordinary people, the visual culture of the time, the nature of art and design in the domestic context, and the messages that house owners wished to communicate through the commissioning and displaying of wall paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book considers the types of decoration found in domestic wall paintings, the materials used, the local craftsmen likely to have done the paintings and the costs involved. Using extensive research, wall paintings are explored through reference to probate inventories, craftsmen with painting skills, painting techniques, materials and pigments and design sources. A detailed gazetteer, covering a broad sweep of the Welsh Marches \u2013 from Gloucestershire through Monmouthshire and Radnorshire to Cheshire \u2013 includes photographs of the paintings, and places them in their building context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Professor Malcolm Airs expounds, the book is: \u2018meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated. It should be read by all who are interested in the social and cultural history of the Tudor and Stuart age.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathryn Davies\u2019 book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand, conserve or even find wall paintings \u2013 because there are more than we know of, even with the expanded gazetteer in this new edition. The author knows her subject and makes connections with social and economic history high and low. Though rooted in the Marches, this study is based on wide reading and long practical experience. The material culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, often bold, crude, snobbish and demonstrative, is revealed as both more colourful and quirkier than we usually suppose. Ostriches, codpieces, rabbits and knots riot across the page\u2026<\/em>. David Brock, Historic England<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Kathryn Davies works as an independent consultant for planning and historic environment issues, including work for Historic England, historic buildings advice, conservation area work and advising on wall paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 For a review copy, to contact the author or for further information, please contact Su Wheeler on 01544 327182, mobile 07957 898963 or email info@logastonpress.co.uk On Twitter @LogastonPress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See more books by IHBC members HERE<\/a> and for more background on how to get your book promoted on the IHBC\u2019s website at see the NewsBlog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See more IHBC member publications<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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