Art, Style and Design in the service of King and Church: the Bologna Cope, a masterpiece of ‘opus anglicanum’
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Monday 11 December 2023
(6-7pm) - Online Zoom Event, link details will be emailed to attendees on the morning of the event
- Lecturer: Michael A. Michael
The Bologna Cope was one of the stand-out items at the 2016 V&A exhibition on Opus Anglicanum. Created in England and rich with the imagery of Christ’s life and the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket at the time it was dated to between 1310 and 1320 during the papacy of Pope Benedict XI (recent archival research has pin-pointed that the cope, now housed in the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna was created during the short papacy of Pope Benedict XI before 1304). Its iconographic programme and the problems associated with its conservation will be considered.
Lecturer
Professor Michael A. Michael is an art historian who has lectured and written widely on medieval and Renaissance art. He studied History of Art and Architecture at the University of East Anglia (Norwich) and subsequently took a PhD at Westfield College, London, writing on illuminated manuscripts made for the court of Edward III. After working for the British Academy on the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi recording project, he became a lecturer at the University of St Andrews before joining Christie’s Education, as Academic Director. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Glasgow School of Culture and Creative Arts and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He led the Opus Anglicanum Project at the University of Glasgow. His publications include studies of the Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, English Medieval Panel Painting, Illuminated Manuscripts and Medieval Liturgical Embroidery.
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