British art historian (1945–2019)
(Bernard) Paul Crossley ,
FBA (19 July 1945 – 11 December 2019)
[1] was
professor of the
history of art at the
Courtauld Institute of Art , University of London.
[2] He was elected a fellow of the
British Academy in 2016. He was a specialist in the architecture of medieval central Europe.
[3]
Academic education
Crossley was educated at
Downside School and
Trinity College, Cambridge , where he was elected President of the
Cambridge Union . He studied law between 1963 and 1965 before switching to History of Art, graduating in 1967.
[4]
Career
Before joining the
Courtauld Institute he was Reader in the History of Art at
Manchester University
[1] from 1971 to 1990. He was
Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge between 2011 and 2012.
[2]
During his career he was Vice President of the
British Archaeological Association , Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries and Fellow of the
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences .
[5]
Photographs taken by Crossley are held in the
Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute, and are currently being digitised.
[6]
Scholarship
Matthew Reeve suggests that "from its beginning, Paul Crossley's scholarship offered a wholly catholic vision of late medieval art".
[7] Crossley's PhD thesis focused on the architectural patronage of King
Casimir III the Great (1320–80), "research that, to a large extent, introduced the architecture of Poland to British scholarship".
[7]
Zoë Opačić and
Achim Timmermann edited two
Festschrifts in honour of Crossley: Architecture, Liturgy and Identity: Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley (Studies in Gothic Art 1), and Image, Memory and Devotion: Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley (Studies in Gothic Art 2).
[7]
Personal life and death
He was married to Joany and had two children, Nick and Kate.
[8] Crossley died on 11 December 2019 at the age of 74.
[9]
Bibliography
Gothic Architecture in the Reign of Kasimir the Great: Church Architecture in Lesser Poland, 1320-1380 , 1985, Kraków, Ministerstwo Kultury i Sztuki Zarza̜d Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Courtauld Institute of Art , 2008, Warburg Inst
Medieval Architecture and Sculpture in the North West , 1978, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
The Man from Inner Space: architecture and meditation in the choir of St. Laurence in Nuremberg. , 1988, University of Manchester Press
Revised ed. of Paul Frankl's
Gothic Architecture , 2000 Yale
Festschrifts
References
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a
b
"Crossley, Prof. (Bernard) Paul" .
Who's Who & Who Was Who . Vol. 2020 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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b
Paul Crossley FSA. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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Professor Paul Crossley. British Academy. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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"Professor Paul Crossley (1945–2019)" . The Courtauld Institute of Art . 13 December 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2020 .
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"Cody, Rev. Henry John, (6 Dec. 1868 – 27 April 1951), Hon. Fellow of Toronto Academy of Medicine, 1937; Fellow Canadian and American Geographical Societies and Polish Institute of Arts and Science" , Who Was Who , Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007,
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u235887 , retrieved 4 February 2021
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"Who made the Conway Library?" . Digital Media . 30 June 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2021 .
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a
b
c Reeve, Matthew (2014).
"Review of Architecture, Liturgy and Identity: Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley . (Studies in Gothic Art 1); Image, Memory and Devotion: Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley . (Studies in Gothic Art 2), Zoë Opačić, Achim Timmermann" . Speculum . 89 (3): 812–814.
doi :
10.1017/S0038713414001341 .
ISSN
0038-7134 .
JSTOR
43577088 .
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"Professor Paul Crossley (1945-2019)" . The Courtauld Institute of Art . 13 December 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2021 .
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