Kenneth John Conant
Kenneth John Conant | |
|---|---|
_-_1975.52_-_Fogg_Museum.jpg) Painting of Kenneth John Conant by Educator | |
| Spouse | Marie Schneider |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | John F. Conant Lucie Mickelsen |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Early Architectural History of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (1925) |
| Influences | Herbert Langford Warren Charles Eliot Norton John Ruskin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medieval architecture |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Kenneth John Conant (June 28, 1894 – March 3, 1984) was an American
Career
Born in
Conant's lifework was the study of the Cluny Abbey in France, which he excavated beginning in 1927, funded by his first of five separate Guggenheim Fellowships. He considered Cluny the preeminent accomplishment in all of architectural history.[4]
Conant was an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[5][6] He taught architectural history at Harvard from 1924 to 1955, the year of his retirement.[7]
Legacy
In 1916, Denman Ross painted a portrait of Conant, now in the Harvard Art Museums.[8]
In 1940, a group of students, who studied under Conant, formed the Society of Architectural Historians under his influence.[9]
References
- S2CID 192104410.
- ^ Conant, Kenneth John (1959). Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800-1200. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books.
- ^ Conant, Kenneth John (1926). The early architectural history of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
- S2CID 162194647.
- ^ "Kenneth John Conant". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
- JSTOR 42620506.
- ^ "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Kenneth J. Conant (1894-1984)".
- JSTOR 990000.
