Professor Marks has been a curator at the British Museum, Keeper of the
Burrell Collection, Glasgow, and Director of the Royal Pavilion and
Museums in Brighton. Subsequently he held a Personal Chair in the
History of Art Department at the University of York, and is now Emeritus
Professor; he also currently has an Honorary Professorship in the
History of Art at Cambridge University. He has held honorary posts as
Vice-President of The Society of Antiquaries of London and International
President of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi project. He has worked on a
number of major exhibitions, including Gothic. Art for England 1400-1547
(Victoria & Albert Museum, 2003-4), which he curated.
Professor Marks' main interest is the religious imagery of medieval
Europe, in all the visual arts. Much of his research has been on English
stained glass, and, more recently, on the function and reception of
devotional images. His works here include Stained Glass in England
during the Middle Ages (1993), The Medieval Stained Glass of
Northamptonshire (1998), The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting
1200-1500 (1981) and Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England (2004).
This volume brings together thirty-one of Professor Marks' studies,
encompassing historiography, stained glass, manuscript illumination,
screen and wall painting, sculpture and funerary monuments.
