Full Name: Priest, Alan
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): art theory, Gothic (Medieval), and Medieval (European)
Career(s): clergy
Overview
Priest continued and refined the analysis of Wilhelm Vöge. His essay on the masters of the west facade of Chartres cathedral, 1923, follow A. Kingsley Porter was the first important venture into the history of Gothic sculpture [in the United States] (Branner).
Selected Bibliography
“The Masters of the West Facade at Chartres.” Art Studies 1 (1923).
Sources
“Alan Priest.” Chartres Cathedral: Norton Critical Studies in Art History.New York: W. W. Norton, 1969, p. 149.