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 2012 – Spring 2013

"of great size and ferocious appearance...": Medieval Monsters and Modern Monster Studies
Asa Mittman
Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 6:30 p.m.

Louis IX, Robert Branner, and the Wall Paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle
Emily Guerry
Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 6:30 p.m.

"In Its Extraordinary Arrangement": Hugh of Saint Victor, the History of Salvation, and the World Map of The Mystic Ark
Conrad Rudolph
Thursday, May 2, 2013, 6:30 p.m.

Fall 2011 – Spring 2012

Fall 2010 – Spring 2011

Fall 2009 – Spring 2010