Christina J Faraday

My essay 'The Elizabethan and Jacobean Monuments in Gonville and Caius College Chapel, Cambridge' has won the Church Monuments Society...

My exhibition on 1 Corinthians 12:12–31 for the Visual Commentary on Scripture is now online, including Louise Bourgeois, Give or Take...

I spoke about Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (c.1515) in the prom interval on BBC Radio 3 on 12th August, the inspiration...

My article on 'Talking Pictures', which appeared in the June issue of Apollo magazine, is now online: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/eli...

Dr Christina Faraday talks about her passion for communication through art, her Tudor research, admissions – and dinosaurs, in this...

I am delighted to be one of PlaceCloud app's experts in its new incarnation. Subscribe for just £2.99 per month to listen to geo-located...

My poem 'Relics: A Kitchen in Assisi' has been published in the May issue of Franciscan, the Journal of the Society of St Francis:...

My essay 'Heirs of All Eternity: New Discoveries in Tudor Portraiture' has been published online to coincide with the Philip Mould & Co...

Natalie Grueninger talks all things Tudor art with Dr Christina Faraday in episode 103 of Talking Tudors podcast. Listen here:...

Read my article about art on the radio for Apollo Magazine here, featuring Jerry Brotton's series of The Essay, 'Blood and Bronze' for...

My article about the fatally-flawed proposals for rearranging the V&A's curatorial and conservation departments is out in the Telegraph:...

I wrote about the recent discovery of a gold figure of Henry VI in a field in the Midlands for Apollo Magazine, article online now:...

My review of Marking Time: Objects, People and their Lives, 1500-1800, ed. Ed Town and Angela McShane (Yale University Press, 2020) is...

Last week I recorded an episode of the podcast Talking Tudors with Natalie Grueninger, on 'Tudor Neuroscience' or what Tudor people...

I gave an interview to The Leader, the Evening Standard Podcast, on the new sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft by Maggi Hambling. Catch up...

The Royal College of Physicians is considering proposals to sell off its superb collection of rare books to plug a funding hole. I wrote...

My article 'Lively Limning: Presence in Portrait Miniatures and John White's Limnings of the New World' was published in the September...

My article 'Two Newly-Discovered Flap Engravings by Thomas Gemini' was published in the September edition of Print Quarterly, vol XXXVII,...

Elizabeth I was meant to be a boy; how did artists deal with representing this unprecedented monarch? Read my take on portraits of...

What did Tudor people think went on in the brain? What does a memory worm have to do with it? I'm delighted to be presenting my talk...