Full Name: Prior, Edward S.
Other Names:
- Edward Schröder Prior
Gender: male
Date Born: 1852
Date Died: 1932
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Medieval (European), and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Medievalist art and architectural historian. Nikolaus Bernard Leon Pevsner characterized him as, “the best English interpreter of the Gothic style.”
Selected Bibliography
A History of Gothic Art in England. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1900; An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England. Cambridge, University Press, 1912; The Cathedral Builders in England. London: Seeley and Co/New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905; Eight Chapters on English Medieval Art: a Study in English Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.
Sources
Pevsner, Nikolaus. Matthew Digby Wyatt: the First Cambridge Slade professor of Fine Art: an Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950, p. 23; Watkin, David. The Rise of Architectural History. London: Architectural Press, 1980, pp. 105-108.