Walter Cahn

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Walter Cahn is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, Princeton University, Pratt Institute

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Walter Cahn

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#1624

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#2316

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#624

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Pedagogy

#234

World Rank

#305

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#79

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Walter Cahn's Degrees

PhD Art History Princeton University
Masters Art History Princeton University
Bachelors Art History Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Walter Benedict Cahn was a German-born American medievalist and art historian who taught at Yale University as Carnegie Professor of the History of Art. Cahn was born in Karlsruhe on 24 September 1933 to Otto and Frieda Cahn. His Jewish family was deported to what would become Vichy France in 1938, and after surviving World War II there, he reached the United States in 1948. Walter Cahn was educated at the Pratt Institute from 1952 to 1956. He served from 1956 to 1958 in the United States Army Medical Corps, at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. In 1958, he enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, completing his Ph.D. in 1967 with a dissertation on the "Souvigny Bible—A Study in Romanesque Manuscript Illumination." His Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne was published in 1974. He began teaching at Yale in 1965, where he spent the rest of his career. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, and has served as a councillor of the Medieval Academy of America. Cahn was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1989. An exhibition at Yale's Beinecke Library was held in 2003 to in Cahn's honor. In 2014, Cahn was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Walter Cahn's Published Works

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Architecture and Exegesis: Richard of St.-Victor's Ezekiel Commentary and its Illustrations (1994) (39)
Romanesque Bible Illumination (1982) (39)
English Romanesque Art 1066–1200 (1984) (26)
An Illustrated Josephus from the Meuse Region in Merton College, Oxford (1966) (25)
Masterpieces: Chapters on the History of An Idea (1979) (11)
Architectural Draftsmanship in Twelfth-Century Paris: The Illustrations of Richard of Saint-Victor's Commentary on Ezekiel's Temple Vision (1976) (10)
Romanesque art and thought in the twelfth century : essays in honor of Walter Cahn (2008) (9)
Medieval Landscape and the Encyclopedic Tradition (1991) (8)
Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century (1996) (6)
The Tympanum of the Portal of Saint-Anne at Notre Dame de Paris and the Iconography of the Division of the Powers in the Early Middle Ages (1969) (6)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections (1999) (5)
Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection (1982) (5)
The Romanesque wooden doors of Auvergne (1974) (5)
Focillon's Jongleur (1995) (5)
Medieval mastery: book illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475 (2002) (5)
Souvigny: Some Problems of Its Architecture and Sculpture (1988) (3)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XIV. The South (1975) (3)
Schapiro and Focillon (2002) (2)
Studies in medieval art and interpretation (2000) (2)
The Psalter of Queen Emma (1985) (2)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. IV. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (1969) (2)
An eleventh century gospel book from Le Cateau (1966) (2)
C. F. R. De Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade . Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Dover, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1984. Pp. xiv, 105; 24 black-and-white plates, 1 color plate. $75. (1987) (1)
Chapter 11. Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter (2008) (1)
Notes On The Illustrations Of Ezekiels Temple Vision In The Postilla Litteralis Of Nicholas Of Lyra (2008) (1)
Saracens, Demons and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (review) (2006) (1)
Observations on the "A of Charlemagne" in the Treasure of the Abbey of Conques (2006) (1)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XVI. The Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pa. (1977) (1)
Notes on a Mosan Enamel in Moulins (1981) (1)
Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (review) (2005) (1)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XIII. Chicago, Bloomington and St. Louis (1974) (1)
Observations on Corbeil (1973) (1)
The 'Tympanum' of Saint-Pierre at Etampes: A New Reconstruction (1986) (1)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. II. Providence and Worcester (1968) (1)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. III. New England University Museums (1969) (1)
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles.Mirella Ferrari , R. H. Rouse (1993) (0)
Walter Cahn. Review of "The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible" by Diane J. Reilly. (2007) (0)
Lexicon en register (1952) (0)
Ilene H. Forsyth, The Throne of Wisdom: Wood Sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. Pp. xviii, 226; 190 black-and-white illustrations. $30. (1975) (0)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XI. The Philadelphia Museum of Art (1974) (0)
The Angelic Pope and the Portal of the Paris Célestine (1994) (0)
The early years of Local 1199. The unionization of pharmacists and drug store workers. (1987) (0)
Jaroslav Folda, The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098–1187 . Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxx, 672 plus 41 color plates; many black-and-white plates, 10 black-and-white figures, and 9 maps. $95. (1999) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (2020) (0)
AN ILLUMINATED HAGGADAH OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (2016) (0)
Kathryn Horste, Cloister Design and Monastic Reform in Toulouse: The Romanesque Sculpture of La Daurade . (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xxii, 257; 218 black-and-white plates following text. $155. (1994) (0)
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3: Belgium, 1250-1530. Lilian M. C. Randall, Judith H. Oliver , Christopher Clarkson , Claudia Mark (2002) (0)
The Tree: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought ed. by Pippa Salonius and Andrea Worm (review) (2015) (0)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. VII. New York and New Jersey (1971) (0)
Review: Saint-Remi de Reims: l'oeuvre de Pierre de Celle et sa place dans l'architecture gothique by Anne Prache (1980) (0)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. VI. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1970) (0)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, I Hartford (1967) (0)
Studies in Tuscan Twelfth-Century Illumination. Knut Berg (1970) (0)
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin. — The Making of a Manuscript. The Worms Bible of 1148 (British Library, Harley 2803-2804), 1983 (" Wolfenbütteler Forsch ", 25) (1986) (0)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XVII. The Glencairn Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1978) (0)
SOME MINOR SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE MURPHY HAGGADAH (2016) (0)
ICMA Chronicle (1986-2006) (2006) (0)
meyer schapiro, The Parma Ildefonsus (1967) (0)
Imaging the Early Medieval Bible. John Williams (2002) (0)
The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalyse.John Williams (1997) (0)
Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch, and: Jewish Book Art between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (review) (2009) (0)
Violence and Daily Life. Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job by Conrad Rudolph (review) (1998) (0)
Books Received (1980) (0)
Jewish Art, Vol. 16/17, 1990-91 (review) (2012) (0)
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. VIII. The Detroit Institute of Arts (1971) (0)
Correction: Schapiro and Focillon (2003) (0)

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