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Robert A. Maxwell (Ph.D., Yale; A.B. Princeton) teaches the art of the Middle Ages, specializing in the sculpture, architecture, and manuscripts of the Romanesque and Early Gothic periods, while also pursuing an interest in medieval art's historiography.
His research has appeared in Art Bulletin, Art History, Bulletin monumental, Congrès archéologique, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, as well as in catalogues and collected volumes. Recent and forthcoming articles include studies of pilgrimage architecture and urban organization; the ethnicity of Romanesque art; the search for Romanesque sculpture's "origins" in 20th-century historiography; and a monographic article on the 12th-century church at Parthenay-le-Vieux.
His first book, The Art of Urbanism in Medieval France (2007), considers the role of monumental sculpture and architecture in defining the early medieval cityscape. He is also completing a book on the pictorial invention of sacred and secular histories in illuminated legal manuscripts (e.g., charters, cartularies). Professor Maxwell has also collaborated with several Philadelphia museums, serving as consulting curator to an exhibition of incunabula for the Rosenbach Museum & Library, and as a contributor to the installation of Romanesque sculpture and Gothic stained glass for the Glencairn Museum.
Membership in other Graduate Groups:
Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW)
See also:
Medieval Studies @ Penn
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