David William Park FSA (born 23 May 1952) is a professor at the

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, University of London, where he is Director of the Conservation of Wall Painting Department. Park is a graduate of

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and Corpus Christi College,

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and has been a Fellow of the

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since 1986.Professor David Park.
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Selected publications

*‘The earliest

Holy Kinship The Holy Kinship was the extended family of Jesus descended from his maternal grandmother Saint Anne from her ''trinubium'' or three marriages. The group were a popular subject in religious art throughout Germany and the Low Countries, especially ...

image, the Salomite controversy, and a little known centre of learning in northern England in the twelfth century’ (with M. Naydenova-Slade), ''Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes'', 71 (2008), 95–119. *‘Mural painting in

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’, in ''Mural Paintings of the

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: Cultural Exchanges between East and West'' (Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Tokyo, January 2006), ed. K. Yamauchi, Y. Taniguchi and T. Uno, London 2007, 3-8 (also published in the Japanese version of the Proceedings). *‘The painted decoration of

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and the development of Romanesque altar imagery’ (with S. Stewart), in ''Cardiff: Architecture and Archaeology in the Medieval Diocese of Llandaff'' ( British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 29), ed. J. R. Kenyon and D. M. Williams, Leeds 2006, 42–59. *'The painted plaster’ (with H. Howard), in ''

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and School Excavations 1972-1976 and 1990'', ed. L. Keen and P. Ellis, Dorchester 2005, 107–16. *'Late medieval paintings at Carlisle’ (with S. Cather), in ''Carlisle and Cumbria: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology'' (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 27), ed. M. McCarthy and D. Weston, Leeds 2004, 214–31. *'English medieval wall painting in an international context’, in ''Conserving the Painted Past: Developing Approaches to Wall Painting Conservation'' (Post-prints of an English Heritage conference, 1999), eds. R. Gowing and A. Heritage, London 2003, 1–8. *Catalogue entries in ''Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547'', ed. R. Marks and P. Williamson (catalogue of exhibition at the

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), London 2003.

References

Living people Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art 1952 births Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London {{UK-historian-stub