John Piper - ACE004.2

Credits. Piper looking at books in his studio, near Henley on Thames. Details of décor, including some of Piper’s abstract paintings, decorative letters, etc. Some of his architectural paintings – Windsor Castle 1942, Windsor Town Hall – painting by Poussin, Bacchanal: the Andrians (1628-1630) which has formed the basis for one of his costume studies Variation Poussin Dancers (1952). A reclining nude. Designs for stained glass window for chapel at Oundle School (1954). Lithograph designed for restaurant chain, with costumes taken from Elizabethan period. Costume designs for Lucretia (for Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia) and others. Set design for Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. Piper with director Basil Coleman at Sadler’s Wells, 1954. Still from production of Gloriana (1953). Designs and stills for The Pearl Fishers (1954) and others. Carving on Piper’s studio wall. Paintings. Piper reading. Drives away from his house. Country church in Yorkshire – Piper’s painting of it. Details of church, churchyard, brasses, effigy, mediaeval stone carving, details from some of Piper’s paintings. The Coventry Monuments, Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire, 1953 (originals designed by Capability Brown and Robert Adam); Piper looking around. Sketches and part of effigy on tomb of Margaret Coventry, turning his picture into a "Madonna and Child".