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by Elina Gertsman (Editor)
This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of the most important medieval collections in North America and Europe: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty, the Groeningemuseum, The Morgan Library, Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, of course, the CMA, offering perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity, and patronage, with special foci on Burgundian art, acquisition histories, and objects in the CMA.
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This volume celebrates the career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Leading curators consider key objects in some of the most important collections in North America and Europe, offering perspectives on the histories of acquisition and display as well as artistic identity and patronage, with special foci on Burgundian art, collecting histories, and objects in the CMA.
Elina Gertsman is Professor of Art History and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including a catalogue, produced in collaboration with Stephen N. Fliegel, for an exhibition featuring the CMA's Gothic table fountain.
Author Biography
Elina Gertsman is Professor of Art History and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including a catalogue, produced in collaboration with Stephen N. Fliegel, for an exhibition featuring the CMA's Gothic table fountain.
