Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art

Robert Branner (1927-1973) was an art historian specializing in Gothic architecture and manuscript illumination. Active as an excavator, he made important discoveries in the chronology and style of French cathedrals, incorporating cultural historical tools into the method of design analysis that had more traditionally dominated architectural history.

Branner is remembered through the Robert Branner Forum, a student-run symposium sponsoring lectures several times a year that are open to the public. The Forum originated as a series of visiting lectures organized by Branner's graduate students immediately after his death during the academic year as a way of continuing his courses. It has been supported by his family since that time.

For the 2021-2022 series, the fall lectures will be held remotely over Zoom. The format of spring lectures will be reassessed closer to 2022.

Fall 2021 – Spring 2022

Emanuele Lugli (Stanford University)
"Dragon Breath: On Paolo Uccello’s Saint George in London’s National Gallery"
Thursday, October 21, 2021, 3:00 pm
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Postponed
Antony Eastmond (Courtauld)
"The image is not god."
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 12:00pm EST
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Postponed
Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
Friday, November 19, 2021, 12:00 pm EST
"Silk in Stone. Mediums of Labor, Craft, and Art”
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Fall 2020 – Spring 2021

Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Fall 2018 – Spring 2019

Fall 2017 – Spring 2018

Fall 2016 – Spring 2017

Fall 2015 – Spring 2016

Fall 2014 – Spring 2015

Fall 2012 – Spring 2013

Fall 2011 – Spring 2012

Fall 2010 – Spring 2011

Fall 2009 – Spring 2010