Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art
Robert Branner (1927-1973) was an art historian specializing in Gothic architecture and manuscript illumination. Active as an excavator, he made important discoveries in the chronology and style of French cathedrals, incorporating cultural historical tools into the method of design analysis that had more traditionally dominated architectural history.
Branner is remembered through the Robert Branner Forum, a student-run symposium sponsoring lectures several times a year that are open to the public. The Forum originated as a series of visiting lectures organized by Branner's graduate students immediately after his death during the academic year as a way of continuing his courses. It has been supported by his family since that time.
All events take place in Schermerhorn Hall, room 612.
Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
Building-in-Time: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Era
Marvin Trachtenberg, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
The Role of the Village Churches in Romanesque Architecture: Type,
Invention, and the Integrated Interior
James Addiss, Independent Scholar
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
The Craft of Royal Virtue on the Reverse Facade of Reims Cathedral
Donna Sadler, Agnes Scott College
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
"Nothing Compares to Paris": A Reassessment of the Rayonnant Capital
Meredith Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
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