Professor John Lowden FBA

Investigating the millennium of the illuminated manuscript: making and using images, especially images in books, from late antiquity to the Reformation
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Year of death
2026
Subjects
Art history

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Professor of History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

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