Professor Emerita Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh |
email: mastones@hotmail.com
Alison Stones was Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh from 1984 to 2012. She received her degrees at the University of London and taught at the University of Minnesota from 1969 to 1984. She taught medieval art and architecture, iconography and palaeography. She specializes in medieval manuscript illumination, with a particular interest in the illustration of vernacular texts in French. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Correspondant étranger honoraire of the Société nationale des antiquaires de France, a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a Member of the International Committee of Experts on the Way of St James. She now lives between New York and Savignac-les-Églises, France.
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Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, Part I, vols. 1 and 2 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France) (Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2013). |
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Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, Part II, vols. 1 and 2 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France) (Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2014). | ||||||||
Manuscrits de Cadouin, éd. Thomas Falmagne et Alison Stones avec la collaboration de Christelle Cazaux-Kowalski et Yolanta Zaluska Archives départementales de la Dordogne, 2015
Studies in Arthurian Illustration, 2 vols. London: Pindar Press, 2018
D.J.A. Ross, Medieval Illustrated Alexander-Books in French Verse, edited by Maud Pérez-Simon and Alison Stones (Manuscripta Illuminata 4),Turnhout, 2019 WWW Public Sites Images of Medieval Art and
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