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The Heritage Trust
Preserving the Past for the Future
About Me
- Littlestone
- Studied art and design at Swindon School of Art, Wiltshire, England and afterwards Japanese painting and calligraphy at Kyoto University of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan. In 1966 I was a lay monk at the Zen Buddhist temple of Ryozen-an in Kyoto and practiced under the guidance of its Director, Ruth Fuller-Sasaki and senior monk Dana R Fraser (co-translator of Layman P'ang: A Ninth Century Zen Classic). Also present at Ryozen-an was the author and poet Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder was one of the first Westerners in Japan to study Zen Buddhism and was the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's book, The Dharma Bums. I was assistant conservator (paintings) at Kyoto National Museum from 1969-1980 and Chief Conservator (Eastern Pictorial Art) at the British Museum from 1980-1986. Japan Foundation Fellow 1973-1974 and Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works since 1985.
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This 16th century painting, formerly in the Church of Saint Merry in Paris and now in the Musèe Carnavalet, shows Saint Geneviève surrounded by her sheep within a circle of standing stones. The city in the background is presumably Paris which, according to ledged, Geneviève saved from destruction at the hands of Attila in 451. The black dog (or is it a black sheep?) may be a representation of the devil (there also seems to be a devil's head on top of the Saint's staff).
sam, on The Modern Antiquarian, writes, "...I think the circle was in Nanterre, not Paris. It still existed into the mid 18th century, but now exists as field boundary stones near the railway, so was possibly destroyed during the building of the railway."
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