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The Chapel is on Fire: Recollections of Growing Up. - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, Feb, 2001
The Chapel is on Fire: Recollections of Growing Up. Michael Levey. Jonathan Cape. [pound]16.99. 268 pages. ISBN 0-224-05156-3. The author of these memoirs, Sir Michael Levey, was for thirteen years Director of the National Gallery and also Slade Professor of Fine Art at both Oxford and Cambridge.
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He has also written several important books on the history of art and on various collections and, finally, has three novels to his credit. He begins these memoirs with his upbringing in a London suburb as the child of an intolerant Roman Catholic and ends them with his appointment to a position in the National Gallery in 1951. In between he movingly discusses his time in the Army during the Second World War, briefly discusses his time at Oxford and describes his loss of religious faith. The 'burning chapel' of the title refers both to a real school chapel that burned down and to the author's Catholic faith.
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