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Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich (1342-c 1416) was the most important English mystic of the 14th century. Her spirituality is strongly Trinitarian and basically Neoplatonic. In her Revelations of Divine Love Julian relates that in May 1373, when she was 30 years old, she suffered a... Read more |
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Norwich
Norwich , city (1991 pop. 32,664) and district, county seat of Norfolk, E England, on the Wensum River just above its confluence with the Yare. Norwich is a principal city market for cattle and grain. It is also a center for shopping and entertainment, as well as administration. Since the 11th... Read more |
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Norwich School
Norwich School. A group of English landscape painters associated with the Norwich Society of Artists, which was founded in 1803. It held annual exhibitions 1805–25 and again in 1828–33 after it had been reformed as the Norfolk and Suffolk Institution for the Promotion of the Fine... Read more |
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Henry Despenser
Norwich Crusade, 1383. Led by Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich (1370–1404), this ‘crusade’ had scandalously mixed ecclesiastical, commercial, and political motives—with disastrous results. Supported by Pope Urban VI (Rome) in his move against Pope Clement VII... Read more |
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John Crome
John Crome 1768-1821, English landscape painter, b. Norwich. Crome was the principal painter of the Norwich school. He is often called Old Crome to distinguish him from his son who painted in the same manner but with less mastery. He was born into poverty but rose to the position of a provincial... Read more |
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Bernard Meadows
Meadows, Bernard (1915–2005). British sculptor, mainly in bronze, born in Norwich. After studying at Norwich School of Art, 1934–6, he was studio assistant to Henry Moore in London, 1936–9. He had two periods of study at the Royal College of Art, 1938–40 and... Read more |
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Sir Alfred Munnings
Munnings, Sir Alfred (1878–1959). English painter, a specialist in scenes involving horses, which he loved passionately. He was born at Mendham, Suffolk, the son of a miller and a farmer's daughter, and trained as a lithographer, 1893–8, whilst studying in the evenings at Norwich... Read more |
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John Sell Cotman
John Sell Cotman , 1782-1842, English landscape painter and etcher. He was a leading representative of the Norwich school. Cotman studied in London and in 1806 settled in Norwich where he opened an art school. He suffered periods of melancholia throughout his life. He took up etching c.1810 and... Read more |
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Derrick Greaves
Greaves, Derrick (1927– ). British painter and graphic artist, born in Sheffield. After an apprenticeship with a signwriter, he studied at the Royal College of Art, 1948–52. In the 1950s he was a leading figure of the Kitchen Sink School, depicting dour subjects including views of his... Read more |
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diocese of Norwich
Norwich, diocese of. The see, conterminous with Norfolk, was founded in 1094. Herfast (1070–85) moved the East Anglian see of Elmham to Thetford c.1072 to comply with the Council of London, but Herbert Losinga (1091–1119), monk of Fécamp and former abbot of Ramsey, moved it again... Read more |
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