CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
AT NOTRE DAME IN PARIS
Thursday, October 2
Harvard Graduate School of Design & Livestreamed
Caroline Bruzelius
Duke University
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, while under construction from the twelfth into the fourteenth centuries, was the hub of a creative outburst in philosophy, theology, literature, and music. This same spirit of creativity pervades the design and construction of the building itself, which served as a laboratory of architectural innovation. Professor Bruzelius, granted access to the upper parts of the structure during the recent restoration, presents new research from the studies she and her colleagues, both historians and materials scientists, made on the development of this magnificent structure.
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LIVESTREAM & IN-PERSON
Luc-Olivier Merson, Notre-Dame de Paris, drawing, c. 1881, Cleveland Museum of Art
CAROLINE BRUZELIUS
Caroline Bruzelius is the Anne M. Cogan Professor Emerita of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London, and the Medieval Academy of America. Bruzelius received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her field of research is Gothic architecture, urbanism, and medieval sculpture in France and Italy. She has authored numerous articles and books including Preaching, Building and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City (Yale University Press, 2014); Medieval Naples (with William Tronzo) (Italica Press); The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Italy, 1266-1343 (Yale University Press, 2004); The Thirteenth Century Church at Saint Denis (Yale University Press, 1985). She is presently working on a new book, The Cathedral and the City, that will examine the social, political and economic context for cathedral building.
