medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Jim, just to clarify, AKP (as you know) was at Harvard (where his photo collection is located).
> But Schapiro may have studied with Porter, as with that (also non-Columbia) Ancient art
> historian whose name escapes me at the moment--and who (polemically) would have informed
> Schapiro's thinking about "archaism" in romanesque aesthetics. Of interest, perhaps, Schapiro
> also wrote his Master's thesis paper on Moissac--its at Columbia's Avery Fine Arts Library, and
> worth a read if you're ever in NY. I wrote a rather long footnote in a recent article (on the
> Moissac cloister) regarding some problems/issues/questions about the publication of his
> dissertation and his year of graduation, which fyi was not 1929 (when the diss was "approved")--
> but 1935.
Leah,
I stand happily corrected. Besides Porter, Schapiro also acknowledges the criticism
of Charles Rufus Morey; I may have jumped to an unwarrented conclusion in
interpreting his acknowledgement of AKP as indicating a supervisory function.
>
> See, Der mittelalterliche Kreuzgang : Architektur, Funktion und Programm = The medieval
> cloister = Le cloître au Moyen Age / Peter K. Klein (Hrsg.). Regensburg : Schnell + Steiner,
> 2004.
This sounds very interesting.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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