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Date(s) - 7 Apr 2014
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
Location
Schermerhorn Hall
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Please join us in the Department of Art History and Archaeology for the sixth event of the 2013-2014 Bettman Lecture Series:
“The Myth of the Cathedral“
Paul Crossley
Emeritus Professor
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Monday, April 7
6 pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University
Inaugurated in 2004, the Bettman Lectures are an annual program of monthly lectures in art history sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology. Endowed with a bequest from Linda Bettman, a former graduate student of the department, the lectures are named in her honor.
Professor Paul Crossley was educated at Downside School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he read Law and History of Art. He completed his doctorate, on the history of Polish Medieval architecture, at Trinity College and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. From 1971 to 1990 he was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at Manchester University. In 1990 he joined the teaching staff of The Courtauld Institute, first as a Senior Lecturer and then (from 2002) as a Professor. Professor Crossley was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University (England) in 2012 and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Foreign Fellow of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests include the relationship of architecture to medieval rhetoric, the historiography of medieval architecture, and medieval architecture in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of ‘The Architecture of Kasimir the Great. Gothic architecture in Lesser Poland 1320-1370’, 1985. He is the co-author with Paul Frankl of the book ‘Gothic Architecture’ in the Pelican History of Art series, published in 2000.