Madeline H. Caviness

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Professor Emeritus

Madeline Harrison Caviness
Born1938 (age 8485)
AwardsFMAoA, FRS
Academic background
Alma mater University of Cambridge and Harvard University
Institutions Tufts University

Madeline Harrison Caviness, FMAoA, FSA (born 1938) is a British-American scholar of European medieval art, and an expert on glass painting and medieval women as viewers of art. She is a Professor Emeritus at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

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Education

Caviness attended Cambridge University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a master's degree in 1963. She earned her Ph.D. in fine arts from Harvard University in 1970. [1]

Career

Caviness is a Professor Emeritus at Tufts University. [2] She is considered an expert on European medieval stained glass. [3] She has participated in efforts to find and catalog stained glass works that were collected by Americans. Some of the earliest pieces she has discovered in the United States date back to the 12th century. [3]

Caviness was president of Corpus Vitrearum, an international scholarly organization dedicated to the study of medieval stained glass, from 1987 to 1995. [4] She served as president of the Medieval Academy of America from 1993 to 1994. [5]

Caviness's contributions to the study of medieval art were celebrated in the collection The Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness, edited by Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, and Ellen Shortell, and published by Ashgate in 2009. [6]

Caviness's 1980s academic inference that 4 stained glass panels in Canterbury Cathedral predated others and a destructive fire was confirmed by technology in 2021. [7]

Selected works

Books

Articles

Photography and Digital scholarship

Caviness has contributed over 1400 images of stained glass to the Artstor Digital Library. [5]

Caviness has contributed photographs to the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art. [9]

Awards and honors

Caviness was appointed Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [2] She is an elected member of the Society of Antiquaries in London (1980) [10] and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. [5] Caviness has been the recipient of the John Nicholas Brown Prize and the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America. [11]

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Richard Marks, is a British art historian. He has held a number of curating and academic posts in art history in the United Kingdom and researched and written extensively on medieval religious images in a variety of media, including stained glass and illuminated manuscripts.

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Madeline Harrison Caviness". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 Franckling, Ken (12 February 1986). "Fine arts sleuths tracking down missing medieval stained glass". The Orlando Sentinel. UPI. p. 44. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  4. Hourihane, Colum P. (6 February 2012). Corpus Vitrearum. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t2216808. ISBN   978-1-884446-05-4.
  5. 1 2 3 "Caviness, Madeline: Medieval Stained Glass". Artstor. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  6. The four modes of seeing : approaches to medieval imagery in honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness. Lane, Evelyn Staudinger., Pastan, Elizabeth Carson, 1955-, Shortell, Ellen M., Caviness, Madeline Harrison, 1938-. Farnham, England: Ashgate. 2009. ISBN   978-1-351-54451-1. OCLC   741712189.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Livia Gershon (28 July 2021). "Canterbury Cathedral's 12th-Century Stained Glass May Be England's Oldest". Smithsonian Magazine.
  8. Nolan, Kathleen (1 July 2003). "Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and the Scopic Economy". The Catholic Historical Review. 89 (3): 542. ISSN   0008-8080.
  9. "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  10. "Emeritus Professor Madeline Caviness". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  11. "Madeline Harrison Caviness". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 21 June 2020.