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for George Zarnecki, published in 1987 for his 70th birthday in 1985, and, in the forward, acknowledged his regard for Zarnecki, who he said “has quite literally rewritten a whole chapter of England’s artistic history, taking the sculpture and “minor arts” of the Norman period and placing them firmly
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Following his retirement from the British Museum, Stratford has continued to publish articles and books both in French and English and has been honoured for his work on both sides of the Channel. He is celebrated in France, not only for his work at Cluny, but for his work on the chronology of the
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was the lead curator. Stratford and Zarnecki worked together again in 1988 when they were instrumental in founding the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Great Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) following their submission of a proposal for funding to the
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who continue to oversee the project. Stratford is currently its Chairman and also presented the online 2020 CRSBI Annual Lecture ‘Cluny and VĂ©zelay: The Paradox of the Romanesque Capital in Burgundy’. Stratford edited the two volume
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with an historical account of the discovery of the Lewis Chessmen in the 19th century for inclusion in its catalogue when a missing piece was discovered and sold for ÂŁ735,000 in July 2019.
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as Chairman of the Scientific Committee. The research was published under his editorship alongside Brigitte Maurice-Chabard & David Walsh. In an interview with Alicia Guzman for the
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before he was appointed to the position of Keeper of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum; a post he held from 1975 until his retirement from museum life in 1998.
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and the publication of the findings of the excavation work. Following twenty years of field work and writing, the work was finally published in 2010.
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During this time Stratford not only published a number of books and articles but was also on the Selection Committee for the exhibition
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ROMANESQUE PATRONS AND PROCESSES; Design and Instrumentality in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe
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2010-2011 Newsletter, David Walsh recalls how he met Neil Stratford, who was visiting the excavation at
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Corpus de la sculpture de Cluny, 1: Les parties orientales de la Grande Église Cluny III
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Catalogue of Medieval Enamels in the British Museum. Vol.2, Northern Romanesque Enamel
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from 2020, having formerly been a foreign associate elected 7 December 2012
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at the British Academy in 1991, and worked on the international project,
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in 1998 and Visiting Professor of medieval art and archaeology at the
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publication and, photographs attributed to him, are also held in the
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In 2014 Stratford was on the Advisory Panel and a contributor to the
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Romanesque Metalwork : Copper Alloys and Their Decoration
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to read for a BA, graduating in 1961, and then onto study at
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Westminster Kings and the Medieval Palace of Westminster
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Romanesque and Gothic : Essays for George Zarnecki
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Burgundian Romanesque sculptures at VĂ©zelay and the
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Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
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Index

FSA
medievalist
Emeritus
British Museum
Romanesque
Gothic art
sculpture
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
Herbert Franke
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Horsham
Marlborough College
Classics
Coldstream Guards
National Service
Magdalene College, Cambridge
the Courtauld Institute of Art
Abbey Church of La Madeleine
VĂ©zelay
Westfield College
Hayward Gallery
George Zarnecki
British Academy
festschrift
Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow
University of Rochester
Bordesley Abbey
Abbey of Cluny
Burgundy
Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun

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