{"id":183,"date":"2006-12-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/late-15th-century-altar-paintings-now-on-display\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:00:00","slug":"late-15th-century-altar-paintings-now-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/late-15th-century-altar-paintings-now-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Late 15th century altar paintings now on display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pair of late 15th Century altar paintings are going on display in London after a 450-year absence.<br \/>The panels, thought to have furnished a chapel at Westminster Abbey, passed intact through the upheavals of the Reformation.<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>They are now on display at the Museum of London.<\/p>\n<p>They are thought to have been removed from Westminster Abbey either in 1536, when it was stripped of its shrines and images, in 1540, when it briefly converted into a cathedral, or in around 1547 during the strict Protestantism of Edward VI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/london\/6164519.stm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>24 Hour Museum also has an article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourmuseum.org.uk\/nwh_gfx_en\/ART42020.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Museum of London Aquires Rare Medieval Altar Panels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both articles have pictures of the panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: A pair of late 15th Century altar paintings are going on display in London after a 450-year absence.The panels, thought to have furnished a chapel at Westminster Abbey, passed intact through the upheavals of the Reformation.&#8230;They are now on display at the Museum of London. They are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/late-15th-century-altar-paintings-now-on-display\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}