J. J. G. Alexander
Jonathan James Graham Alexander,
Education and career
Jonathan Alexander matriculated at the University of Oxford in the 1960s (BA, MA, D.Phil.)[2] before becoming a Lecturer and Reader in History of Art at the University of Manchester from 1971 to 1987.[3]
Alexander edited the Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles from 1975 onwards
In 1987 Alexander worked on the exhibition Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400 at the Royal Academy of Arts[7] and co-edited the catalogue with Paul Binski (see below).
He moved to New York in 1988 becoming Professor of Fine Arts at New York University Institute of Fine Arts[3] and was awarded the Sherman Fairchild Professorship of Fine Arts [8] in 2002. He is now Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts following his retirement from university life in 2011.[9]
Honours
1981 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries[10]
1985 Fellow, British Academy[3]
1995 Honorary Fellow,
1995-1996 Guggenheim Fellowship
1999 Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
2002 J. Clawson Mills Art History Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[2]
The
Selected works
- (ed. with Otto Pächt) Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols.1966
- Italian Renaissance Illuminations, New York: Braziller, 1977, ISBN 9780807608647
- Insular Manuscripts, 6th to the 9th century, London: H. Miller, 1978. Survey of manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles vol. 1, ISBN 0198173814
- The Decorated Letter, New York: Braziller, 1978, ISBN 0500271380
- (ed. with T. Julian Brown and Joan Gibbs) Collected writings of Francis Wormald. 2 vols, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984–88.
- (with ISBN 0198173814
- (ed. with Paul Binski) Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987, ISBN 0297791826
- Medieval Illuminators and their methods of work, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994
- (ed.) The Painted Page : Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, 1450-1550, New York: Prestel, 1994, ISBN 3791313851
- (ed. with James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler) The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, New York: New York Public Library, 2005, ISBN 190537500X
Professor Alexander wrote the obituary of T. S. R. Boase, a former director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, for The British Academy.[12]
Alexander has also contributed photographs to the
References
- ^ Christopher de Hamel, review of Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander, From: The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Vol. 10., No. 4, 2009.
- ^ a b "NYU The Institute of Fine Arts".
- ^ a b c "Professor Jonathan Alexander FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ Alexander, Jonathan J[ames] G[raham], Dictionary of Art Historians Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Collaboration in Special Collections, Parker Library" (PDF).
- ^ "Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge. Part 1, vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Austria (256 pp, 358 color illus.). Part 1, vol. 2: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands (296 pp, 389 color illus.)". Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ "The Making of the Age of Chivalry | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File
- ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ "Professor Jonathan Alexander". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- S2CID 144285706.
- ^ "The British Academy T.S.R.Boase obituary" (PDF).
- ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Archived from the original on 2020-07-03. Retrieved 2020-10-16.