Peter Kidson

Peter Kidson (23 August 1925 – 10 February 2019) was a British Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art where he lectured on Medieval Architecture until 1990.[1][2][3][4][5] In his obituary in The Telegraph, he was described as “the most influential historian of medieval architecture of his generation in the English-speaking world”.[6]

Professor

Peter Kidson
Born1925
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge; The Courtauld Institute of Art
Academic work
DisciplineHistory of Art
Sub-disciplineMedieval architecture

Education

Kidson spent 1943 to 1946 on a scholarship to the University of Cambridge (interrupted by WW2 when he was conscripted into the Royal Navy). He graduated in 1950 with a BA. From 1950 to 1959 he studied at the Courtauld (MA & PhD) alongside Brian Sewell. Their tutors at the Courtauld included Anthony Blunt on whom Kidson wrote a memoir for The British Academy in 2016.

Career

Kidson taught at the Courtauld, also as a visiting lecturer at Cambridge and the University of East Anglia, and as a visiting Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia in 1972. He was appointed full lecturer at the Courtauld in 1967 where he remained until his retirement as Professor of Medieval Architecture in 1990.[1]

Honours

Upon retirement he became Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art.[3]

Writings
  • Sculpture at Chartres, 1958, with photography by Ursula Pariser, published by Alec Tiranti.
  • A History of English Architecture. Part I, 1962, George G. Harrap.
  • A History of English Architecture, 1965, revised edition (with Peter Murray, and Paul Thompson), Penguin Books.
  • The Medieval World, 1967, Paul Hamlyn.
  • Salisbury Cathedral: Perpectives On The Architectural History, with Thomas Cocke, 1993, HMSO.
  • Courtauld Institute Illustration Archives: Archive 1: Cathedrals & Monastic Buildings In The British Isles: Part 3 Lincoln: St Hugh's Choir & Transepts, 1977, Harvey Miller.

Books on Peter Kidson
  • Medieval architecture and its intellectual context: Studies in honour of Peter Kidson, 1990, edd. Eric Fernie and Paul Crossley, Hambledon.

Citations in academic writings
  • Geometrical Objects: Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400–1800, 2014, ed. A. Gerbino, Springer.[7]

Contributions

Photographs contributed by Peter Kidson to the Conway Library are currently (2020) being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project.[8]

Kidson wrote the British Academy obituary and biography for fellow art historian Anthony Blunt, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIII, 19–39.

References
  1. "Professor Peter Kidson obituary". The Times. 18 April 2019. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  2. Coldstream, Nicola (2019-03-11). "Peter Kidson obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  3. "Professor Peter Kidson (1925–2019)". The Courtauld Institute of Art. 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  4. Crossley, Paul; Draper, Peter (2019-01-01). "Professor Peter Kidson: 23 August 1925 – 10 February 2019". Journal of the British Archaeological Association. 172 (1): 176–178. doi:10.1080/00681288.2019.1642011. ISSN 0068-1288. S2CID 212805649.
  5. "Kidson, Peter – Mapping Gothic France". mappinggothic.org. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  6. Obituaries, Telegraph (2019-02-28). "Peter Kidson, Professor at the Courtauld Institute hailed as 'the most influential historian of medieval architecture of his generation in the English-speaking world' – obituary". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  7. Gerbino, Anthony (2014-07-21). Geometrical Objects: Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-05998-3.
  8. "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
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