A conversation with Amanda Luyster on how to organize a museum exhibition, from conception and design to securing the objects and planning events around it. We also talk about the famous tiles of Chertsey Abbey, a royal commission that evoked the Crusades with artistic allusions to Byzantium and the Islamic world.
The exhibition, Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece, runs from 26 January to 6 April, 2023, at the Cantor Art Gallery in Worcester, Massachusetts. Click here for more details.
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Amanda Luyster is an Assistant Professor at College of the Holy Cross, where she specializes in the study of the art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in England and France. Besides helping to set up this exhibition, she edited a companion volume to it and assisted in the creation of a website about the Chestsey Tiles.
Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago. You can follow him on his personal website.
A conversation with Amanda Luyster on how to organize a museum exhibition, from conception and design to securing the objects and planning events around it. We also talk about the famous tiles of Chertsey Abbey, a royal commission that evoked the Crusades with artistic allusions to Byzantium and the Islamic world.
The exhibition, Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece, runs from 26 January to 6 April, 2023, at the Cantor Art Gallery in Worcester, Massachusetts. Click here for more details.
Amanda Luyster is an Assistant Professor at College of the Holy Cross, where she specializes in the study of the art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in England and France. Besides helping to set up this exhibition, she edited a companion volume to it and assisted in the creation of a website about the Chestsey Tiles.
Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago. You can follow him on his personal website.
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Top Image: The Chertsey Tiles – photo courtesy College of the Holy Cross
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