Chris Swithinbank

The most re­cent edi­tion of the CeReNeM Jour­nal, run by post­grad­u­ates at the Uni­ver­sity of Hud­der­s­field, con­tains an ar­ti­cle I wrote about the painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Swedish com­poser Lisa Stre­ich, ex­plor­ing the trope of the Pietà in their works. Thanks go to Pedro Al­varez for in­sti­gat­ing the pro­ject and edit­ing this vol­ume, and to Tim Ruther­ford-John­son for his ea­gle-eyed proof-read­ing.

Lisa’s music is won­der­ful, you should go lis­ten to it, and as a small bonus if you are read­ing the ar­ti­cle on­line, you can refer to this se­lec­tive time­line of Bouguereau’s paint­ings, which I cre­ated as an aid to my re­search.