The Ancestors

Du 18 mai au 23 août 2015

Canterbury Cathedral is preparing to stage a major exhibition of some of its earliest and most important surviving stained glass.

Canterbury Cathedral’s great treasure of medieval stained glass is crowned by a series of life-size figures representing the Ancestors of Christ, which date to the late 12th and early 13th centuries. An exhibition in the Cathedral’s Chapter House, entitled The Ancestors, will provide a unique opportunity to view these major works of medieval art at close quarters. The exhibition will run from Monday 18 May – Sunday 23 August, 2015*.

After two hugely successful exhibitions in the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the exhibition now gives British and continental audiences the opportunity to ‘meet the Ancestors’ face-to-face, before they return to the re-built Great South Window later this year.

See more : http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/