{"id":153004,"date":"2025-11-22T02:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153004\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:30:13","slug":"dorset-museums-3-5m-race-to-save-sherborne-almshouse-triptych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153004\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset Museum&#8217;s \u00a33.5m race to save Sherborne almshouse triptych"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts identified the triptych, depicting five miracles of Christ, as the only surviving work of an unknown painter who was active in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been described as &#8220;exceptionally rare&#8221;, having survived through religious purges and political upheaval for more than 500 years in the almshouse chapel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Museum executive director Claire Dixon said: &#8220;We have no objects or artworks in our collection related to the Reformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This would be the earliest artwork in our collection, in terms of paintings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The museum has previously used export deferrals for artefacts worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, but never millions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;The scale is enormous, I don&#8217;t know if we are going to be able to do it but I just think, what are we here for if we don&#8217;t try?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it has ever left Dorset &#8211; its significance to the county is really important.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts identified the triptych, depicting five miracles of Christ, as the only surviving work of an unknown painter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-153004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}