Stephen Murray

Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History

Medieval Art, Gothic Architecture, Social and Cultural History and the Application of Digital Media to Art History
Ph.D., University of London, 1973

Contact Information

Phone: (212) 854-8521
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Office: 605 Schermerhorn Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10-12

Biography

Stephen Murray was educated at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1986. His publications include books on the cathedrals of Amiens, Beauvais and Troyes; his current work is on medieval sermons, story-telling in Gothic, and the Romanesque architecture of the Bourbonnais. His field of teaching includes Romanesque and Gothic art, particularly involving the integrated understanding of art and architecture within a broader framework of economic and cultural history. He is currently engaged in projecting his cathedral studies through the electronic media using a combination of three-dimensional simulation; digital imaging.