Fil Hearn, Ph.D.

Frick Department of the History of Art and Architecture
104 Frick Fine Arts Building
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel. (412) 624-2402
FAX (412) 648-2792
fih@pitt.edu

Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Director of Architectural Studies


Education:

     BA History, Auburn University, 1960
     MA History, Indiana University, 1964
     MA Art History, Indiana University, 1966
     Ph.D. work in absentia from Indiana University
          University of California at Berkeley, 1965-66;
          Dissertation research in Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1966-67
     Ph.D. Indiana University, March, 1969 (Art History)



Research and Publications:

Books:

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Romanesque Sculpture:
The Revival of Monumental
Stone Sculpture in the Eleventh
and Twelfth Centuries
Ripon Minster
and the Beginning
of the Gothic Style
in Northern England
The Architectural Theory
of Viollet-le-Duc:
Readings and Commentary
Ideas That Shaped Buildings
Editions in Chinese and Spanish, 2006



Articles:

"A Note on the Chronology of Romsey Abbey," Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 3rd ser. XXXII (1969), 30-37

"The Rectangular Ambulatory in English Medieval Architecture," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XXX (1971), 187-208

"On the Original Nave of Ripon Cathedral," Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 3rd ser., XXXV(1972), 39-45

"Romsey Abbey: A Progenitor of the English National Tradition in Medieval Architecture," Gesta, XIV (1975), 27-40

"Postscript: On the Original Nave of Ripon Cathedral," Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 3rd ser. XXXIX (1976), 93-94

"Villard de Honnecourt's Perception of Gothic Architecture," Medieval Architecture and Its Intellectual Context: Studies in Honour of Peter Kidson, London, 1990, 127-136

"A Japanese Inspiration for Frank Lloyd Wright's Rigid-Core High-Rise Structures," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, L (1991), 68-71

"Medieval Sculpture," World Book Encyclopedia, 1994 ed., S vol., 248-251.

"Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Becket," Art Bulletin, LXXVI (1994), 19-53

"The Iconography of the Lady Chapel of Salisbury Cathedral," Medieval Art and Architecture at Salisbury (The British Archaeological Association Transactions for the year 1991), 1996, 45-50.

"Early Wooden Ribbed Vaults in Medieval Britain," Journal of the British Archaeological Association, CL, 1997, 48-58. Co-authored with M. Thurlby

"Ottonian Sculpture," German History: An Encyclopedia, , New York and London, 2001, pp. 602-603.


Exhibition Catalogues:

The Alcoa Collection of Contemporary Art, 1971 "Arthur Lubetz, Architect," in Architecture. . . Energy, 1989


Book Reviews

"Roland Sanfacon, L'Architecture Flamboyante en France (Quebec: 1971)", Speculum, XLVIII (1973), 786-788

"F. H. Thompson, ed., Studies in Medieval Sculpture" (Occasional Papers, Society of Antiquaries, London: 1983), Speculum, XL (1985)

"Roger J. Adams, The Eastern Portal of the North Transept at Chartres: 'Christocentric' Rather than 'Mariological' (Bern: 1982), Speculum (1987)

"Patrick Collinson, et al., A History of Canterbury Cathedral (Oxford: 1995)," Speculum, XLXI (1996), 133-134.

"Marcia Kupfer, Romanesque Wall-Painting in Central France (New Haven: 1993)," Speculum, XLXIII (1998), 553-555.

"Anthony Emery, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, Volume I, Northern England (Cambridge: 1996)," Speculum, XLXIV (1999), 1133-1134.

"Nigel Hiscock, ed., The White Mantle of Churches: Architecture, Liturgy and Art around the Millennium (Brepols, 2003)," Speculum, XLXXIV (2005).


Public Lectures:

England:
     British Archaeological Association, Durham Conference, 1977; Salisbury Conference, 1991
     University of London
     Courtauld Institute of Art, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1994
     Birkbeck College, 1994
     University of Durham; Conference, 1993

Canada:
     York University, 1986, 1990
     Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, York, 1987, 1990;
     Quebec, 1993

Serbia:
     Architecture Triennale, Nis, 2003 (2)

Spain:
     Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, 2004
     Universidad Alcala de Henares, 2004

United States:
     College Art Association, 1972, 1976, 1977
     The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 1975, 1978,
          1980 (2), 1982, 1984, 1985
     Society of Architectural Historians, 1986
     Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1977 (5)
     Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 1988
     Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, 1977, 1978
     Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, 1985
     National Cathedral Society, Pittsburgh, 1990
     University of Pittsburgh Medieval and Renaissance Studies Lecture Series,
          1972, 1974, 1979
     Symposium in honor of Walter Read Hovey, 1977
     Friends of the Frick Fine Arts Faculty Lecture, 1988, 1995
     Fine Arts Department Colloquium, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1997,
          1999, 2001, 2002
     Music Department Colloquium, 1986
     Public Forum on City Planning in Pittsburgh, 1988
     International Symposium on the Codex Calixtinus, 1988
     Carnegie-Mellon University, 1975, 1986
     Indiana University, 1969
     Oberlin College, 1981
     Princeton University, 1982
     University of Colorado, 1985
     University of California at Santa Cruz, 1987
     James Madison University, 1991
     Swarthmore College, 1993
     University of Houston, 2005


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