Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art

 

Robert Branner (1927-1973) was an art historian specializing in Gothic architecture and manuscript illumination. Active as an excavator, he made important discoveries in the chronology and style of French cathedrals, incorporating cultural historical tools into the method of design analysis that had more traditionally dominated architectural history.

Branner is remembered through the Robert Branner Forum, a student-run symposium sponsoring lectures several times a year that are open to the public. The Forum originated as a series of visiting lectures organized by Branner's graduate students immediately after his death during the academic year as a way of continuing his courses. To honor Robert Branner’s legacy, the forum continues to invite scholars of medieval art and architecture to Columbia’s campus and serves to connect the medievalist community within and beyond the University.

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Robert Branner, 1968

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