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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 sketch of Stonehenge in the Scala Mundi manuscript of 1440 is possibly the earliest detailed pictorial record of the monument we have. Thanks to Nigel Swift for drawing it to my attention. More info at - http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1957926,00.html
See also the British Archaeology magazine for January-February 2006-2007 which carries a six-page article by Christian Heck on the newly discovered sketch. There is a full-page colour illustration of the leaf containing the illustration, as well as three other illustrations of Stonehenge from early sources, one of which is a second full-page illustration of Stonehenge in the Douai manuscript which is now in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The English translation of the Latin text immediately below the sketch of Stonehenge in the Scala Mundi manuscript reads -
That year Merlin, not by force but art, brought and erected the giants' round from Ireland, at Stonehenge near amesbury.
The article concludes with a two-column postscript by Mike Pitts entitled, Was Geoffrey Right?
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