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CV | ContactJonathan J. G. Alexander
Sherman Fairchild Professor of Fine Arts

D.Phil. 1964, M.A. 1963, B.A. 1960, Oxford.


Research Interests

Medieval European art, especially manuscript illumination.


Sample courses

Religious Devotion in Later Medieval Europe and the Patronage of the Arts
Picturing Poetry: David, Virgil, Dante, Machaut and Chaucer
European Art of the Fourteenth Century
Women and Art in the Middle Ages
Early Medieval Art in Europe


Selected publications

Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination. London: Pindar Press, 2002.

The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, editor and contributor. Munich: Prestel, 1994.

Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Alexander, J. J. G. A. and Paul Binski, eds. Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400. London: Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.

Insular Manuscripts 6th - 9th Century. London: Harvey Miller, 1978.


Selected honors

J. Clawson Mills Art History Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002.
Fellow, Medieval Academy of America, 1999.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995-1996
Honorary Fellow, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995
Fellow, British Academy; Fellow, 1985