Londýn: Zemřel Paul Crossley (1945-2019), velký znalec katedrální gotiky

V pátek 13. prosince 2019 oznámil Courtauld Institute of Art v Londýně, že jeho dlouholetý pracovník profesor Paul Crossley zemřel po dlouhé nemoci. Crossley vystudoval dějiny umění v Anglii a v Polsku. Jeho první velkou knihou je publikace o architektuře v Polsku za Kazimíra Velikého ve 14. století: Gothic architecture in the reign of Kasimir the Great: church architecture in lesser Poland, 1320 – 1380 (Krakov 1985).

Psal především studie o gotické architektuře ve Francii, Anglii a také ve střední Evropě. Jako jeden z mála anglických odborníků měl široký a detailní přehled o gotické architektuře od Londýna po Prahu a od Paříže po Krakov.

Podílel se mj. na katalogu k výstavě Karla IV. v Praze, který vyšel česky v roce 2006. A jedna z jeho posledních studií je recenze na knihu Richarda Němce o rezidencích Karla IV. (Architektur - Herrschaft - Land: die Residenzen Karls IV. in Prag und den Ländern der Böhmischen Krone / Richard Němec, The Burlington magazine, 2016).

Vynikají a zcela příkladnou je jím připravená nová edice slavné knihy Paula Frankla Gothic architecture (New Haven 2000, edice Pelican history of art), kde klasický text z roku 1962 Crossley citlivě aktualizoval a doplnil podrobnými komentáři.

Inspirativní je také jeho bádání o vazbě Petra Parléře k anglické gotické architektuře. Crossley měl velmi rád Krakov a Prahu a gotickou architekturu v Čechách a v Polsku. Měl u nás řadu přátel a známých – a jsem rád, že jsem k nim také patřil.

Peter Kováč

Professor Paul Crossley

It is with huge sadness that we announce the death of our much-loved former colleague, Paul Crossley, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art.

Paul was an eminent historian of medieval art and architecture. An undergraduate at Trinity College Cambridge, Paul completed his PhD on medieval architecture in Poland. His academic career began at the University of Manchester, where he taught from 1971 until 1990, when he came to The Courtauld. Here he remained until his retirement in 2011.

Paul was a Fellow of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and was Slade Professor in the History of Art at Cambridge University (2011-2012). His book on fourteenth-century Polish Gothic Architecture in the Reign of Kasimir the Great was published in 1985. His second and much expanded edition of Paul Frankl’s Gothic Architecture (Yale, 2000) made a significant contribution to medieval art history, with much erudition and insight packed into footnotes, and numerous articles on Gothic architecture advanced the field though meticulous, historically sensitive and theoretically sophisticated research. He was appointed Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.

Under Paul’s guidance and by his example, Manchester and The Courtauld became two of the great powerhouses for the study of Gothic architecture for many decades, and Paul’s many pupils now fill equivalent positions here and in other university departments. His legacy will be felt for many years to come, and his deep intelligence and warm-hearted humanity will be deeply missed by all who knew him.

The Courtauld sends its deepest sympathy to Paul’s wife and their family, as well as to his friends and former students.

Zdroj:

https://courtauld.ac.uk/professor-paul-crossley-1945-2019

Paul Crossley - bibliografie:

Monographs and exhibition catalogues

-- Gothic Architecture in the Reign of Kasimir the Great: Church Architecture –– in Lesser Poland, 1320-1380 (Biblioteka wawelska, 7), Krakow, 1985.

–– Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures in the North West, (exhibition catalogue, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 15.1.-28.2.1976), Richmond, 1976 (with Jonathan Alexander).

–– Medieval Architecture and Sculpture in the North West, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1976 (with David Griffiths & Peter Milburn). Edited and co-edited volumes

–– Architecture and Language: Constructing Identity in European Architecture, c. 1000 – c. 1650, Cambridge, UK, 2000 (with Georgia Clarke).

–– Paul Frankl, Gothic Architecture, revised edition (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art), New Haven, 2000.

–– Medieval Architecture and Its Intellectual Context: Studies in Honour of Peter Kidson, London, 1990 (with Eric Fernie).

Articles in journals

–– “The Reshaping of French Gothic”, in The Burlington Magazine, 152, 2010, p. 177-179.

–– “England trifft auf Deutschland: Der Fall Nikolaus Pevsner”, in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, 62, 2008, p. 247-256.

–– “Peter Parler and England: A Problem Re-Visited”, in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, 64, 2003, p. 53-82.

–– “‘Bohemia Sacra’ and ‘Polonia Sacra’: Liturgy and History in Prague and Cracow Cathedrals”, Folia historiae artium, new series, 2001, 7, p. 49-69.

–– “Powrót do lasu : architektura naturalna i niemiecka przeszlosc w czasach Dürera”, Dziela i interpretacje, 2, 1994, p. 119-126.

–– “Medieval Architecture and Meaning: The Limits of Iconography”, The Burlington Magazine, 130, 1988, p. 116-121.

–– “Katedra krakowska na tle czternastowiecznego gotyku w Europie Srodkowej”, Sprawozdania o/ PAN w Krakowie, XVIII/1, 1975, p. 139-141

–– “Neo-medieval magic. A look at All Saints, Jesus Lane”, Trinity Review, 1968, p. 6-8.

Articles in books and exhibition catalogues

–– “Bristol Cathedral and Nikolaus Pevsner: Sondergotik in the West Country”, in The Medieval Art and Architecture of Bristol Cathedral, ed. Jon Cannon & Beth Williamson (Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures), Woodbridge, 2011 (forthcoming).

–– “Ductus and memoria: Chartres Cathedral and the Workings of Rhetoric”, in Rhetoric beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages, ed. Mary Carruthers (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 78), Cambridge, 2010, p. 214-249.

-- “Introduction/Einführung” to the chapter Prague “Hauptstadt des Weltreiches” –– (with Michael Menzel), in Kunst als Herrshaftsinstrument: Böhmen und das Heilige Römische Reich unter den Luxemburgern im europäischen Kontext, ed. Jiří Fajt & Andrea Langer, Berlin & Munich, 2009, p. 4-5.

–– “The Integrated Cathedral: Thoughts on ‘Holism’ and Gothic Architecture”, in The Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness, ed. Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Elizabeth Carson Pastan & Ellen M. Shortell, Farnham, 2009, p. 157-173.

–– “Our Lady of Nuremberg, All Saints Chapel in Prague, and the High Choir of Prague Cathedral”, in Prague and Bohemia: Medieval Art, Architecture and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe, ed. Zoë Opačić (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 32), Leeds, 2009, p. 64-80.

–– “Between Spectacle and History: Art History and the Medieval Exhibition”, in Late Gothic England: Art and Display, ed. Richard Marks, Donnington & London, 2007, p. 138-153.

–– “Introduction”, in The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture, ed. Alexandra Gajewski & Zoë Opačić (Architectura Medii Aevi, 1), Turnhout, 2007, p. 9-16.

–– “The Wernerkapelle in Bacharach”, in Mainz and the Middle Rhine Valley. Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology, ed. Ute Engel & Alexandra Gajewski (The British Archaeological Association Transactions, 30), Leeds, 2007, p. 167-192.

–– “Salem and the Ogee Arch”, in Architektur und Monumentalskulptur des 12. – 14. Jahrhunderts: Produktion und Rezeption; Festschrift für Peter Kurmann zum 65. Geburtstag = Architecture et sculpture monumentale du 12e au 14e siècle: production et réception; mélanges offerts à Peter Kurmann à l‘occasion de son soixante-cinquième anniversaire, ed. Stephan Gasser, Christian Freigang & Bruno Boerner, Bern, 2006, p. 321-342.

–– “‘Ara patriae’: Saint Stanislaus, the Jagiellonians and the Coronation Ordinal for Cracow Cathedral”, in Künstlerische Wechselwirkungen in Mitteleuropa, ed. Jiří Fajt (Studia Jagiellonica Lipsiensia, 1), Ostfildern, 2006, p. 103-121.

–– “Die Krone des böhmischen Königtums”, in Karl IV., Kaiser von Gottes Gnaden: Kunst und Repräsentation des Hauses Luxemburg 1310-1437, (exhibition catalogue, Pražský hrad, Prague), ed. Jiří Fajt, Munich, 2006, p. 196-217 (with Zoë Opačić). Published also in the Czech version as: “Koruna Českého království”, in Karel IV. Císař z boží milosti. Kultura a umění za vládý Lucemburků 1310-1437, (exhibition catalogue, Pražský hrad, Prague), ed. Jiří Fajt, Prague, 2006, p. 196-217.

–– “Anglia perdita: English Medieval Architecture and Neo-Romanticism”, in Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture, ed. Susan L’Engle & Gerald B. Guest, London, 2006, p. 471-485.

–– “Prague as a New Capital”, in Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, (exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), ed. Barbara Drake Boehm & Jiří Fajt, New York, 2005, p. 58-73 (with Zoë Opačić).

–– “‘Der Soldat der Wissenschaft’: Paul Frankl und die gotische Kathedrale”, in 100 Jahre Kunstgeschichte an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg: Personen und Werke, ed. Wolfgang Schenkluhn (Hallesche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, 5/6), Halle: 2004, p. 71-82.

–– “Peter Parler and England: A Problem Re-Visited”, in Parlerbauten: Architektur, Skulptur, Restaurierung, ed. Richard Strobel (Arbeitsheft, Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, 13.2004), Stuttgart, 2004, p. 155-179.

–– “Introduction”, in Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner, ed. Peter Draper, Aldershot, 2004, p. 1-25.

–– “‘The Soldier of Science’: Paul Frankl and the Gothic Cathedral”, in Magistro et Amico amici discipulique: Lechowi Kalinowskiemu w osiemdziesiolecie urodzin, ed. Jerzy Gadomski, Krakow, 2002, p. 23-34.

“The Nave of –– Stone Church in Kent”, in Essays in Architectural History Presented to John Newman (Architectural History, 44, 2001), London, 2001, p. 195-211.

–– “England and the Baltic: New Thoughts on Old Problems”, in England and the Continent in the Middle Ages: Studies in Memory of Andrew Martindale; Proceedings of the 1996 Harlaxton Symposium (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 8), ed. John Mitchell & Matthew Moran, Stamford, 2000, p. 113-128 (with Steffani Becker-Hounslow).

–– “‘Monuments to the Mighty Will of Their Builders’: A Note on Prussian ‘Backsteingotik’ and the Problem of ‘German’ Vaults in the Territory of the Teutonic Knights”, in Borders in Art: Revisiting ‘Kunstgeographie’, ed. Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Warsaw, 2000, p. 161-173.

–– “The Politics of Presentation: The Architecture of Charles IV of Bohemia”, in Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe, ed. Sarah Rees Jones, Richard Marks & Alastair J. Minnis, York, 2000, p. 99-172.

–– “Architecture”, in The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 6, c. 1300 - c. 1415, ed. Michael Jones, Cambridge, 2000, p. 234-256.

–– “Bohemia sacra: Liturgy and History in Prague Cathedral”, in Pierre, lumière, couleur: Études d’histoire de l’art du moyen âge en l’honneur d’Anne Prache, ed. Fabienne Joubert & Danny Sandron (Cultures et civilisations médiévales, 20), Paris, 1999, p. 341-365.

–– “The Man from Inner Space: Architecture and Meditation in the Choir of St. Laurence in Nuremberg”, in Medieval Art: Recent Perspectives, ed. Gale R. Owen-Crocker & Timothy Graham, Manchester, 1998, p. 165-182.

–– “Architecture and painting”, in The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 7, c. 1415 - c. 1500, ed. Christopher Allmand, Cambridge, 1998, p. 299-318.

–– “The Architecture of Queenship: Royal Saints, Female Dynasties and the Spread of Gothic Architecture in Central Europe”, in Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe, ed. Anne Duggan, Woodbridge, 1997, p. 263-300.

–– “Kraków Cathedral and the Formation of a Dynastic Architecture in Southern Central Europe”, in Polish and English Responses to French Art and Architecture: Contrasts and Similarities; Papers Delivered at the University of London / University of Warsaw History of Art, ed. Frances Ames- Lewis, London, 1995, p. 31-46.

–– “The Return to the Forest: Natural Architecture and the German Past in the Age of Dürer”, in Künstlerischer Austausch: Akten des XXVIII. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 15. - 20. Juli 1992, ed. Thomas W. Gaethgens, Berlin, 1993, p. 71-80.

–– “Lincoln and the Baltic: The Fortunes of a Theory”, in Medieval Architecture and Its Intellectual Context: Studies in Honour of Peter Kidson, ed. Paul Crossley & Eric Fernie, London, 1990, p. 169-180.

–– “The Early Middle Ages”, in Art of the Western World, ed. Denise Hooker, London, 1989, p. 58-93.

–– “The Vaults of Kraków Cathedral and the Cistercian Tradition”, in Podlug Nieba i zwyczaju polskiego: Studia z historii architektury sztuki i kultury ofiarowane Adamowi Milobedzkiemu, ed. Zbigniew Bania, Warsaw, 1988, p. 63-72.

–– “Kasimir the Great at Wiślica”, in Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki, ed. Neil Stratford, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 39-48.

–– “English Gothic Architecture”, in The Age of Chivalry. Art and Architecture in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski (exhibition catalogue Royal Academy, London), London, 1987, p. 60-73 (also several catalogue numbers in the same volume)

–– “In Search of an Iconography of Medieval Architecture”, in Symbolae historiae artium: Studia z historii sztuki Lechowi Kalinowskiemu dedykowane, Warsaw, 1986, p. 55-66.

“Wells, the West Country, and Central European –– Late Gothic”, in Medieval Art and Architecture at Wells and Glastonbury, ed. Nicola Coldstream & Peter Draper (The British Archaeological Association Transactions, 4), Leeds, 1981, p. 81-109.