Art History Vol 1 (6th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

Marilyn Stokstad

Dr. Marilyn Stokstad (late) was professor emerita of art history at the University of Kansas. She was the Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Missouri and also the past-President of the College Art Association and the past-President of the International Center for Medieval Art. She is the author of Art: A Brief History, Santiago de Compostela: In the Age of the Great Pilgrimages, Art History, and a number of catalogs on medieval art, including Gardens of the Middle Ages.

Michael Cothren

Professor Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Art at Swarthmore College, where he has also served as Medieval Studies Coordinator and Humanities Division Chair. He has taught specialty courses on Roman, Medieval, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and theory and technique, since his arrival at Swarthmore in 1978, but he really enjoys teaching the survey to Swarthmore newcomers.

His research and writings center on French Gothic art and architecture, most recently in Picturing the Celestial City, an ebook about the stained glass of Beauvais Cathedral. He works as a consulting curator at Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania's Glencairn Museum.