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Darrelyn Gunzburg studied at the Open University (BA Hons. History of Art) and then at the University of Bristol (PhD, History of Art). She taught at the University of Bristol 2010-2014 and has been a tutor for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David since 2009 where she contributes the visual art historical expression of the sky in culture. Specialist units include ‘History of Astrology’ (module tutor), ‘Heavenly Discourses’ and ‘Foundations in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology’. She also contributes to ‘Sacred Geography’ and ‘Skyscapes, Cosmology and Archaeology’. She is the editor of The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives (Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2016) and has written extensively for The Art Book (Wiley-Blackwell) and Cassone.
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In western celestial cartography there is a grouping of three birds which are the constellations of Cygnus the Swan, Aquila the Eagle, and Lyra the Lyre, all found north of the ecliptic. Within each constellation, the three bright stars of Deneb Adige in Cygnus, Altair in Aquila, and Vega in Lyra constitute what is known today as the Summer Triangl...
This article investigates whether astrology is an alternative spiritual
practice associated with divination, an occurrence beyond normal human experience. Between July 2015 and July 2016 I conducted semi-structured interviews with seven astrologers who had each been practicing, writing, and teaching astrology for twenty-five years or more. The inte...
The inspiring story of two men’s struggle to release nine digital Warhol images trapped in 1980s’ technology that nobody has seen before, lost since 1985.
A review of An Art Lover’s Guide to Florence by Judith Testa, published by Northern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Darrelyn Gunzburg introduces the latest issue of Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
Giotto's frescos in the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, were painted across three registers. The upper register contains celestial astronomical imagery that few scholars have been able fully to understand. Using two sections of this upper register as case studies, I reconstructed the skies over Padua in the medieval period using astrono...
This paper is focused on how meaning is drawn from a natal horoscope based on interviews with contemporary western astrologers who work with natal horoscopes. Some authors of astrological texts suggest that the activity of reading a natal horoscope for a client evokes mystery or the divine. Many astrologers think that reading a chart is a ritual. T...
This paper offers a thematic study of how a contemporary female audience may have encountered the direct gaze in Italian religious paintings of the mid- Quattrocento. Specifically it contrasts two works by Fra Angelico (born c. 1387-1400, died 1455) - the publicly viewed San Marco Altarpiece (The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels and Saints c....
Interview with Michael Liversidge, Emeritus Dean of Arts and a former head of art history at Bristol University, who successfully identified two panels, measuring fifteen inches by five inches, each depicting a saintly Dominican, as being from the frame of Fra Angelico's altarpiece for the high altar of the church and convent of San Marco, Florence...
