Essential Bibliography

Armi, C. Edson, “The Context of the Nave Elevation of Cluny III,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 69.3, 2010, pp. 321-51

Biay, S., Les Chapiteaux du rond–point de la troipp. sième église abbatiale de Cluny (fin xie-début xiie siècles).étude iconographique, Doctoral Thesis, University of Poitiers, 2011

Bruce, S.G., and Vanderputten, S., A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages, Leiden, 2021

Cochrane, A.F., “Tall Columns of Cluny at Fogg Museum,” Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, August 5, 1933, p. 8

Conant, Kenneth J., “The Iconography and Sequence of the Ambulatory Capitals at Cluny, Speculum, 5, 1930, pp. 278-87

Idem, “A Replica of the Arcade of the Apse at Cluny” Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, 3.1, 1933, pp. 5-8

Idem, “The Third Church of Cluny,” in W. Koehler ed., Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter. 2 vols., vol. 2, Cambridge, (MA)., 1939, pp. 327-358

Idem, Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800-1200, Harmondsworth, 1959

Idem, Cluny: les églises et la maison du chef d’ordre, Mâcon, (Mediaeval Academy of America) no. 77.), 1968

Fergusson, Peter, Necrology — Kenneth John Conant (1895-1984), Gesta, 29, 1985, pp. 87-88

Marquardt, J., From Martyr to Monument: the Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony, Newcastle, 2007

Idem, “First Projects: Medieval Academy Support of Kenneth J. Conant’s Cluny,” https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/FirstProjects, 2004

Sekler, E., “Tribute to Kenneth Conant,”  GSD News, Fall, 1984,  p. 16

Stratford, N., “The Documentary Evidence for the Building of Cluny III,” in Le Gouvernement d’Hugues de Semur a Cluny. Actes du colloque scientifique international, Cluny, 1990, pp. 283312

Idem, “The Apse Capitals of Cluny III, in Studies in Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture, London, 1998, pp. 77-90

Stratford, N., Maurice-Chabard, B., and Walsh, B., Corpus de la Sculpture de Cluny. Les Parties orientales del la Grande Eglise Cluny III, Paris, 2011

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The Cluny Collection

Exhibition: Envisioning Cluny: Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture, 1872–2025

Curator: Christine Smith, Robert C. and Marion K. Weinberg Professor of Architectural History
Collaborators: Matthew Cook, Digital Scholarship Programs Manager, Widener Library; Ines Zalduendo, Special Collections Curator at the Frances Loeb Library, M.Arch ’95
Animation: Clayton Scoble, Media Lab Director, Lamont Library
Assistants: Kian Hosseinnia, Hayley Eaves
Exhibition Design: Dan Borelli, Director of Exhibitions, GSD, M.Des ’12
Online Exhibition Design: Ashleigh Brady, Archival Collections Website Editor, M.Arch ’26