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Strong, Sandford Arthur

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Strong, Sandford Arthur

Other Names:

Sandford A. Strong

Gender: male

Date Born: 1863

Date Died: 1904

Place Born: London, Greater London, England, UK

Place Died: London, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Arabic (style), British (modern), and catalogues raisonnés

Career(s): librarians

Overview

Librarian and Arabic scholar; helped identify and catalog masterworks in British collections. Strong was the son of Thomas Banks Strong, a War Office official, and Anna Lawson (Strong), a scholar of Hebrew. As a boy he studied drawing from Albert Varley, who gave him an edition of the Dictionary of Painters by Matthew Pilkington. Strong made a study of these artists, visiting to the National Gallery, London to supplement his interest. He attended St. Paul’s School in London, in 1877 but almost immediately left to become a clerk at Lloyd’s and attending classes at King’s College, London, before entering St. John’s College Cambridge, in1881 on a scholarship. At the suggestion of Edward Byles Cowell (1826-1903) he studied Sanskrit under Cecil Bendall (1856-1906). Strong graduated in 1884 in classics, but felt so ignored at Cambridge that he switched to Oxford in 1885 for intended graduate work. There he worked in the library of the Indian Institute. His contact with the Oxford scholars there led to him study in France and Germany under James Darmesteter (1849-1894) at Paris and Schrader at Berlin. Returning to London, he continued scholarly activity, reviewing for The Athenaeum and The Academy and creating an edition of the Maha-Bodhi-Vamsa for the Pali Text Society in 1891 and the Futah al-Habashah (or Conquest of Abyssinia) in 1894 for the Royal Asiatic Society’s monographs. A bid for the chair of Arabic at Cambridge failed, but in 1895 he was appointed professor of Arabic at University College, London. At the recommendation of Sidney Colvin, Strong took the position of librarian at Chatsworth to the duke of Devonshire, replacing Sir James Lacaita (1813-1895). Strong made several discoveries among the paintings collection at Chatsworth, the result of his boyhood study. In 1897 Strong married Eugénie Sellers Strong a distinguished archaeologist and art historian, and was appointed librarian at the House of Lords, a position he held concurrently with Chatsworth. His librarian duties included the cataloging of the general library and of the law books in printed editions. His successes led to an appointment of librarian to the duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, then the earl of Pembroke at Wilton, and finally Lord Wantage at Lockinge. He published analyses of these collections between 1900 and 1904. He assisted on the expanded second edition of History of Painting in Italy (1903 ff.) by Joseph Archer Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle. Strong suffered a chronic illness and died early in 1904. He is buried in Brompton cemetery. The Arthur Strong Oriental Library at University College, London, was named in his honor, built from volumes begun in his memory by his widow. Although the library was later dispersed to the university collection, a core of the titles formed the later library of the new School of Oriental Studies, founded in 1916. As an Italianist, Strong’s views were questioned by the Italian advisors to the Burlington Magazine, where Strong published. Roger Fry considered some of Strong’s attributions in the catalog of the Chatsworth old master drawing collection to be ridiculous and that the book’s review in the magazine was much gentler than it should have been because Strong controlled the plates (photographs) of the paintings needed to be published. Strong generally sided with R. Langton Douglas against Bernard Berenson in the quarrels, in part, according to Ernst Samuels, because of Strong’s wife’s affection for Berenson in the years before her marriage.

Selected Bibliography

[complete bibliography:] “Arthur Strong’s Original Contributions to Orientalism,” and “Articles by Arthur Strong not Reprinted in this Volume.” in, Strong, Sanford Arthur. Critical Studies and Fragments. London: Duckworth, 1905, pp. 348-50; edited 2nd edition, with Douglas, Langton, of Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Cavalcaselle, Giovanni. A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena, from the Second to the Sixteenth Century. 6 vols. London: J. Murray, 1903-1914; The Masterpieces in the Duke of Devonshire’s Collection of Pictures. London: F. Hanfstaengl, 1901; Futuh al-Habashah, or The Conquest of Abyssinia. London, 1894; edited Englsih edition, Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901; and Redford, George, and Temple, Alfred George. Catalogue of Pictures Forming the Collection of Lord and Lady Wantage at 2 Carlton Gardens, London, Lockinge House, Berks, and Overstone Park and Ardington House. London: F. Wetherman, 1902.

Sources

Lord Balcarres. “Memoir.” in Strong, Sanford Arthur. Critical Studies and Fragments. London: Duckworth, 1905, pp. 1-25; Leahy, Helen Rees. “The Burlington Magazine, 1903-1911.” in, Mansfield, Elizabeth, ed. Art History and its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 232-233; Cotton, J. S., and Katz, J. B. “Strong, Sandford Arthur (1863-1904).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004; [obituary:] Times (London) January 19, 1904; Lowndes, M. E. “A Distinguished Librarian.” (June 1905); Samuels, Ernest and Samuels, Jayne Newcomer. Bernard Berenson: the Making of a Legend. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1987, p. 145.

Contributors: Lee Sorensen

Strong, Roy C.

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Strong, Roy C.

Gender: male

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: unknown

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Overview

Director of the (British) National Portrait Gallery and controversial director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1974-1987. Strong gained a first in history at Queen Mary College. He received a scholarship to research a doctorate on Elizabethan court pageantry. In 1959 he joined the National Portrait Gallery, London and by 1966 was appointed director. He married the theatre designer Julia Trevelyan Oman in 1971. Always a dandy and now armed with a pedigree for the fashion set, Strong embarked upon a mixture of snobbery and populism that marked his museum administration. One famous slogan was, “Martinis with the Bellinis.” In 1974, at age 38, he succeeded John Pope-Hennessy as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in a controversial decision. The two men could not have been more different; both their subsequent memoirs made it a point to deprecate the other. Though Strong’s appointment was initially a popular with the V&A staff, Strong was aloof and irascible. He cancelled redevelopment plans for the Museum, a huge moral blow to the staff. Though he appointed new department heads, it was not overall enough to turn the museum around. The new Labour government insisted that the civil-service-run museum cut its staff by 25%. Rather than cut departments broadly, Strong gambled by closing the circulation department of the museum, which lent works to other institutions. Other cuts instituted by Strong included closing the Museum on Friday. In retaliation to another (Labour) government initiative, the wealth tax, Strong launched the exhibition “The Destruction of the English Country House 1875-1975,” a polemic against the government. In 1983 the new Henry Cole wing opened, and the Museum achieved the long-deserved independent status, removing it from the department of education and science, and giving it a board of trustees. Strong, however, argued with the trustees from the first. At a dwindling of attendance numbers, Strong introduced voluntary admission charges to the Museum in 1985, a controversial move. The Museum continued to lose money and now attendance as well and, many thought, losing sight of the populist mandate with which the Museum had been created. Though Strong irritated politicians, advisory councils and trustees, he understood the media. He perfected the blockbuster exhibition, “The Destruction of the Country House” and “The Garden” were huge successes. Strong created the Friends of the V&A [support group] and brought new external money in. Eventually, his disagreements with the board of trustees resulted in his resignation from the V&A in 1987. Strong was succeeded by Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, who further consolidated the Museum staff. His predecessor, Pope-Hennessy, described his tenure as “a 13-year regime that reduced the museum and its staff to a level from which it will not recover for many years.”

Sources

Hewison, Robert. “A Strong Case for Revenge.” The Times (London), May 4, 1997; Bayley, Stephen. “Vitrol & Ambition: It’s One of the World’s Great Museums [etc.].” The Independent (London), July 28, 2000, p. 1.

Strong, Eugénie Sellers

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Strong, Eugénie Sellers

Other Names:

Eugénie Sellers Strong

Gender: female

Date Born: 1860

Date Died: 1943

Place Born: London, Greater London, England, UK

Place Died: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), archaeology, Classical, and Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)

Overview

Archaeologist and art historian of Greek and Roman art; first female student admitted to the British School in Athens. Sellers’ parents were Frederick William Sellers (d. 1877) and Anna Oates Sellers (d. 1871). Her father was a wine merchant and her mother stemmed from nobility in the Périgord (Dordogne) region of France. Sellers was educated at Valladolid, Spain, before schooling by the Sisters of St. Paul convent in Dourdan, France. She entered Girton College, Cambridge, already parentless, graduating with a degree in the classics in 1882. At Girton she met another classics student, Katharine Jex-Blake (1860-1951), who would collaborate with her on a later publication. After teaching briefly at St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews, Scotland, Sellers moved to London to pursue classical archaeology under the vase scholar Charles T. Newton of the British Museum. She met and associated with the major British artists of the era, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Edward Burne Jones, and Lawrence Alma Tadema. During the 1890-1891 academic year she taught university extension courses and lectured on Greek art at the British Museum. She came into friendship–and perhaps relationships–with two other female art historians in London, Jane Ellen Harrison and Violet Paget. Later that same year she entered the British School in Athens, its first female student. The same year she published her translation of Carl Schuchardt’s book on the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. Sellers continued her archaeological studies under the finest scholars in Germany, Adolf Furtwängler and Ludwig Traube (1861-1907), in Munich. The renowned archaeologist Ludwig Curtius became a life-long friend. She published a translation of Furtwängler’s Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik in 1895 as Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture. The following year her commentary to Pliny the Elder‘s Chapters on the History of Art appeared, the Latin text translated by Jex-Blake. Sellers married the art historian and librarian to the duke of Devonshire, Sandford Arthur Strong in 1897. Sellers next translated the work of another important art historian, Franz Wickhoff, his book on the Vienna Genesis, as Roman Art. After only six years of marriage, her husband died in 1904 she was appointed his successor at Chatsworth House library. Sellers, now Mrs. Strong, was now thoroughly a Romanist. She published Roman Sculpture from Augustus to Constantine in 1907, culled from her lectures. It became her most important book. On the strength of that book, she was appointed assistant director of the British School at Rome in 1909 under Thomas Ashby. There Strong built both her and the School’s reputation. Girton College awarded her a life research fellow in 1910. She delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures of the Archaeological Institute of America in 1913. These lectures later appeared as Apotheosis and After Life (1915), an examination of Roman religion. A lapsed Roman Catholic, she reaffirmed her faith in 1917. Strong gave the Rhind lectures in Edinburgh in 1920. She revised and published her Roman Sculpture book in an Italian edition in 1923 and published her guide to Santa Maria in Vallicella, La chiesa nuova. Strong lived on the via Balbo near Santa Maria Maggiore. Her weekly salons attracted scholars, students, and notables to hear the “dominating doyenne.” As assistant director of the School, Strong was better at handling the operational issues than Ashby. Ashby’s domineering wife from the first saw a power struggle and fought Strong through her husband. When frictions became pronounced, the School’s board in England terminated both Ashby and Strong in 1925. She was appointed CBE in 1927. A two-volume Art in Ancient Rome from the Earliest Times to Justinian appeared in 1929. Strong wrote two essays for the Cambridge Ancient History, “The Art of the Roman Republic,” and “The Art of the Augustan Age.” She remained in Rome throughout World War II and an ardent supporter of Benito Mussolini, largely because of his archaeological policies. For her support, she received the gold medal of the city of Rome in 1938. Strong completed a manuscript on the history of the Vatican palace, but remained unpublished. She died at the Polidori Nursing Home, shortly after the dictator’s fall, unreconciled with Mussolini’s defeat, and is buried in the campo Verano cemetery, Rome.

Strong was a major publicist for serious scholarship on ancient Rome. She was responsible for bringing the most important German-language scholars into English translation. Her Roman Sculpture from Augustus to Constantine, the first history of Roman sculpture in English, argued for Roman art as a distinct subject as opposed to its view as a derivative of Greek art. She emphasized the range of Roman accomplishment in both Italy and the provinces, native and original creativity. Eccentric, name-dropping and impossibly domineering (Beard), her respect toward all things Roman led to an appreciation of Bernini’s work and the baroque at at time when it was still berated in England. Her physical beauty, especially in her youth, was remarked upon by several otherwise staid scholar-friends; Salomon Reinach‘s infatuation with her was greater than most. Her eccentricities and support for fascism marred her reputation for years after her death.

Selected Bibliography

translator, Schuchardt, Karl. Schliemann’s Excavations: an Archaeological and Historical Study. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891; translator, Furtwängler, Adolf. Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: a Series of Essays on the History of Art. London: W. Heinemann, 1895; translator, Wickhoff, Franz, and Hartel, Wilhelm August, Ritter von. Roman Art: Some of its Principles and their Application to Early Christian Painting. London: W. Heinemann, 1900; Roman Sculpture from Augustus to Constantine. London: Duckworth and Co., 1907; translator, Amelung, Walther, and Holtzinger, Heinrich. The Museums and Ruins of Rome. 2 vols. London: Duckworth & Co., 1912; Apotheosis and After Life: three Lectures on Certain Phases of Art and Religion in the Roman Empire. London: Constable, 1915; Art in Ancient Rome. Ars una: species mille. General History of Art (series) 5, pt 1: From the Earliest Times to the Principate of Nero. pt. II: From the Flavian Dynasty to Justinian, with Chapters on Paintings and the Minor Arts in the First Century, A.D. New York: Scribner, 1928.

Sources

Praz, Mario. “La Signore Strong,” in, La Casa della Fama. Milan: R. Ricciardi, 1952; Wiseman, Timothy Peter. A Short History of the British School at Rome. London: British School at Rome, 1990; Medwid, Linda M. The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work. New York: Humanity Books, 2000 pp. 280-1; Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000; Beard, Mary. “Mrs. Arthur Strong, Morelli, and the Troopers of Cortés.” in, Donohue, A. A. and Fullerton, Mark D., eds. Ancient Art and its Historiography. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 148-170; Dyson, Stephen L. Eugenie Sellers Strong: Portrait of an Archaeologist. London: Duckworth, 2004; Berenson, Bernard. The Selected Letters of Bernard Berenson. Edited by A. K McComb. London: Hutchinson, 1963. p. 31 [mentioned]; [obituaries:] Toynbee, Jocelyn. Antiquaries Journal 23 (1943): 188-189; Richter, Gisela M.A. American Journal of Archaeology, 2nd ser., 48 (1944): 79-81; Times (London) September 21, 1943.

Strong, D. E.

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Strong, D. E.

Other Names:

Donald Emrys Strong

Gender: male

Date Born: 1927

Date Died: 1973

Place Born: Pembrokeshire, Wales, England, UK

Place Died: İznik, Turkey

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Overview

Strong attended Haverfordwest school studied as an open scholar at Brasenose College. Although his performance in Greats was unspectacular (owning to his entrance from outside the university-track education), he excelled in his concentration in Archaeology in which his diploma was awarded. He was awarded a scholarship to study archaeology at the British School in Rome in 1952. His Ph.D. was granted in 1954 writing his dissertation on Roman architectural ornament under J. M. C. Toynbee. He worked at the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments. Bernard Ashmole hired Strong at the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum as Assistant Keeper. He authored the Museum handbook on carved amber in 1966. Strong was appointed the first Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London in 1968. By all accounts, this was his forte. A strong lecturer, he expanded the Roman studies to include provincial Imperial studies. He emphasized the practical aspects of field work. In the early 1970s, Nikolaus Bernard Leon Pevsner contacted Strong to write the volume on Roman art for his Pelican History of Art series. He married Shirley Twallin. His death in Turkey at age 46 stunned his colleagues. He died in İznik, Turkey, which was formerly Nicaea. His mentor, J. M. C. Toynbee, edited the manuscript, largely completed, for his Roman Art volume, which appeared in 1976.

Selected Bibliography

[dissertation:] Roman Architectural Ornament in the Augustan Age. Oxford University, 1954; [collected essays and complete bibliography:] “A Bibliography of Professor D. E. Strong (1927-73).” Roman Museums: Selected Papers on Roman Art and Architecture. London: Pindar Press, 1994, pp. 325-337; Catalogue of the Carved Amber in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: British Museum, 1966; and Toynbee, Jocelyn M. C. Roman Art. Pelican History of Art 39. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976; Roman Imperial Sculpture. London: A. Tiranti, 1961; Catalogue of the Carved Amber in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: British Museum, 1966; translated, Coarelli, Filippo. Greek and Roman Jewellery. Feltham: Hamlyn, 1970; and Ashmole, Bernard, and Cook, B. F. Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Sources

Pevsner, Nikolaus. “Editor’s Foreword.” Strong, Donald Emrys. Roman Art. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, xvii-xviii; [frontispiece] Strong, Donald Emrys. Roman Art. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988; “Dr R. [sic] E. Strong, Archaeologist of Vision.” The Times (London) September 28, 1973, p. 20; F H T “Dr. D. E. Strong.” The Times (London) October 3, 1973, p. 17.

Street, George E.

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Street, George E.

Other Names:

George Edmund Street

Gender: male

Date Born: 1927

Date Died: 1973

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Medieval (European)

Overview

Medievalist art historian.

Sources

mentioned, Saunders, Susanna Terrell. “Georgiana Goddard King (1871-1939): Educator and Pioneer in Medieval Spanish Art.” in Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820-1979. Sherman, Claire Richter and Holcomb, Adele M., eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981, pp. 210, 226. Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of a Tour in the North of Italy. London: John Murray, 1855; and Seymour, Edward Roe. The Cathedral of Holy Trinity, Commonly called Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. London: S. Sharpe and Co., 1882; and King, Georgiana, editor. George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1916; Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain. London: J. Murray, 1865, 2nd ed., and King, Georgiana, editor, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1914.

Medievalist art historian.

Strauss, Walter L.

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Strauss, Walter L.

Gender: male

Date Born: 1824

Date Died: 1881

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): prints (visual works)

Institution(s): Abaris Books

Overview

Prints scholar and book publisher.

Selected Bibliography

and Oberhuber, Konrad, and Felker, Tracie. Drawings Defined. New York: Abaris Books, 1987.

Sources

Liedtke, Walter. “The Study of Dutch Art in America.” Artibus et Historiae 21, no. 41 (2000): 215-216.

Contributors: Lee Sorensen

Prints scholar and book publisher.

Strauss, Ernst

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Strauss, Ernst

Gender: male

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: unknown

Home Country/ies: Germany

Overview

Assistant to Wilhelm Pinder in Munich, who was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933 for being a Jew.

Sources

[transcript] “Otto von Simson, interviewed by Richard C’ndida Smith.” Art History Oral Documentation Project. Getty Research Institute, Malibu, CA, p. 12.

Assistant to Wilhelm Pinder in Munich, who was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933 for being a Jew.

Stratton, Arthur James

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Stratton, Arthur James

Gender: male

Date Born: 1872

Date Died: 1955

Place Born: London, Greater London, England, UK

Place Died: Pulborough, West Sussex, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Baroque, and sculpture (visual works)

Overview

Architectural historian; one of the first in the English-speaking world to treat Baroque architecture as an epoch worthy of study. Stratton trained as an architect under Leonard A. S. Stokes (1858-1925). In 1895 he joined the Liverpool University College’s School of Architecture as a lecturer in the practice (“Demonstrator”). Architectural history, not practice, was his passion, however, and he won a silver medal from the Architecture Association the following year for his essay, “The Life and Work of Wren.” He published this as a small book, replete with personal sketches he made. Stratton returned to London to teach at King’s College School of Architecture under Ravenscroft Elsey Smith (1859-1930). The school was absorbed into the Bartlett School and he with it, now under the direction of A. E. Richardson (1880-1964). There he lectured on all areas of architectural history, his interest being in Tudor and Renaissance periods. Stratton assumed co-authorship with Thomas Garner for a folio study of Tudor architecture. Garner died in 1906 and Stratton was largely responsible for the text. His fame as an architectural historian in England was such that his English Interior book attracted 1500 subscribers (pre-publication orders). In 1927 he edited and published the 5th edition of the popular The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy by William J. Anderson, significantly adding a chapter on Baroque architecture, making it one of the first surveys to treat this maligned period. In this, he joined Fiske Kimball and George Harold Edgell whose 1918 History of Architecture conceded the same point. He retired in 1930 and moved to Pulborough in Sussex where he designed personal buildings and domestic architecture. Stratton helped overturn the previous generation of architectural historians’ notion that Baroque architecture was the height of bad taste (Jones). Anderson’s disgust for the period was such that his survey had omitted the period all together. Stratton wrote, “the architecture of the seventeen-century in Italy can no longer be dismissed as wholly decadent, and there is much to be learnt from that of the eighteenth century, which saw many a versatile Baroque at the height of his powers.” (5th ed, p. 238).

Selected Bibliography

5th ed. and Anderson, William J. The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy: a General View for the Use of Students and Others. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons/London: B. T. Batsford, ltd., 1927; and Garner, Thomas. The Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period. 2 vols published in 3 parts. London: B.T. Batsford, 1908-11

Sources

mentioned, Wohl, Helmut. “Robert Chester Smith and the History of Art in the United States.” in, Sala, Dalton, and Tamen, Pedro, et al. Robert C. Smith, 1912-1975: A investigação na História de Arte/ Research in History of Art. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2000, p. 24; mentioned, Watkin, David. The Rise of Architectural History. London: The Architectural Press, 1983, p. 103; [obituaries:] Jones, Ronald P. Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 62 (August 1955): 430; Builder 188 (May 6, 1955): 761.

Stratford, Neil

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Stratford, Neil

Gender: male

Date Born: 1938

Place Born: London, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Antique, the, antiquities (object genre), and Medieval (European)

Career(s): curators

Overview

Medievalist; Keeper of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum, 1975-1998. Stratford attended Manor House school, Horsham, Sussex from 1946-1951 before entering Marlborough College in 1951 where he studied Classics. He served in the British military (Coldstream Guards) between 1956 and 1958. In 1958 he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge University, receiving his B. A. in 1961. Stratford continued study at the Courtauld Institute in 1963 working on a dissertation (never completed) under Christopher Hohler on the Romanesque sculpture at the Church of La Madeleine, Vézelay. In 1969 he joined Westfield College, London, as a lecturer. Stratford was appointed Keeper of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum in 1975. He participated as a member of the committee to develop the Corpus of Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland and online inventory of Romanesque art, begun in 1988. As the Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow at the British Academy in 1991, he worked on the international project, Corpus de la sculpture de Cluny. Stratford remained at the British Museum until 1998 when he retired as Keeper Emeritus. The following year he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In 2002-2003 he was visiting professeur d’histoire de l’art du Moyen-âge at the École des Chartes. Stratford’s work on Vézelay and Saint-Lazare d’Autun resulted in a more precise chronology of those sculptural monuments.

Selected Bibliography

[dissertation, never completed:] Romanesque Sculpture of Vézelay. Courtauld Institute, University of London, 1969; Northern Romanesque Enamel. volume 2 of, Catalogue of Medieval Enamels in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press, 1993; Medieval Enamels: Masterpieces from the Keir Collection. London: British Museum, 1981; edited, Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki. 2 vols. Wolfeboro, NH: Boydell Press, 1987; and Oddy, W. A., and La Niece, Susan. Romanesque Metalwork: Copper Alloys and their Decoration. London : British Museum Publications, 1986; and Saulnier-Pernuit, Lydwine. La sculpture oubliée de Vézelay. Geneva: Droz, 1984; The Lewis Chessmen and the Enigma of the Hoard. London : British Museum Press, 1997; Studies in Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture. 2 vols. London: Pindar Press, 1998.

Sources

[personal information]; Membres de l’Académie Francais, 2002, http://www.aibl.fr/fr/membres/archives/arch_nominations.htm;

Stout, George

November 8, 2023March 29, 2024

Full Name: Stout, George

Other Names:

George Leslie Stout

Gender: male

Date Born: 1897

Date Died: 1972

Place Born: Winterset, Madison, IA, USA

Place Died: Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Institution(s): International Institute for Conservation

Overview

Selected Bibliography

ed., Technical Studies in the Field of Fine Arts.ed., Art and Archaeology Abstracts (formerly Abstracts of the International Institute for the Conservation of Museum Objects. 1955-

Sources

KMP, 39

Contributors: Lee Sorensen

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