Moonlight Sonata
16. Over the rooftops

oil on canvas, 40 cm x 30 cm, Iain White £340

This view looks across the rooftops of damaged buildings in Broadgate and the High Street towards the stricken Cathedral of St Michaels with the surviving tower and steeple rising above the inferno.

Piper - 1
 

Interior of Coventry Cathedral, 15 November 1940
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

John Piper (1903–1992)

John Piper, one of the artists officially commissioned by the government to record Britain at war, drove to Coventry the morning after the air raid of 14 November to record the damage. The fires were still burning in the Cathedral when he arrived.

After the war Piper was asked to design the stained glass Baptistery Window in the new Cathedral. With 198 brightly coloured glass panels and measuring 26 metres high it was described by Basil Spence, the architect, as a masterpiece..

16. Over the rooftops

oil on canvas, 40 cm x 30 cm, Iain White £340

This view looks across the rooftops of damaged buildings in Broadgate and the High Street towards the stricken Cathedral of St Michaels with the surviving tower and steeple rising above the inferno.

Piper - 1
 

Interior of Coventry Cathedral, 15 November 1940
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

John Piper (1903–1992)

John Piper, one of the artists officially commissioned by the government to record Britain at war, drove to Coventry the morning after the air raid of 14 November to record the damage. The fires were still burning in the Cathedral when he arrived.

After the war Piper was asked to design the stained glass Baptistery Window in the new Cathedral. With 198 brightly coloured glass panels and measuring 26 metres high it was described by Basil Spence, the architect, as a masterpiece..