About
This online exhibition, New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection, presents the work of Kathryn Gerry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History. Critical research has been contributed by members of Professor Gerry’s Fall 2019 seminar, ARTH 3370, Medieval Art and the Modern Viewer: Building an Exhibition with the Wyvern Collection—Amanda Banasiak ’20, Claudine Chartouni ’20, Maria McCarthy ’20, Olivia Muro ’20, Camila Papadopoulo ’20, and Brooke Wrubel ’21. The corresponding exhibition will be installed in the galleries of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from August 2020 – August 2021.
Please note that for each of the objects featured on this website, we have provided the object's inventory number as listed in the Wyvern collection.
This online exhibition was designed by David Francis in Bowdoin Academic Technology, in collaboration with staff at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. It was created using the following technologies: cascade content management system (CMS), HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery (JavaScript library), and Fancybox.
Acknowledgements
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art expresses its appreciation to Kathryn Gerry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and the members of her Fall 2019 seminar, ARTH 3370, Medieval Art and the Modern Viewer: Building an Exhibition with the Wyvern Collection—Amanda Banasiak ’20, Claudine Chartouni ’20, Maria McCarthy ’20, Olivia Muro ’20, Camila Papadopoulo ’20, and Brooke Wrubel ’21, as well as to the following students, who contributed to the research represented here: Grace Clipson ’21, Noah Dubay ’19, James Little ’19, and Cassidy Pratt ’19. Additionally, the Museum acknowledges, with gratitude, the many individuals who contributed to creating this digital exhibition, especially staff at Bowdoin Academic Technology, including David Francis, as well as Museum staff including Suzanne Bergeron and Elizabeth Humphrey.
Finally, the BCMA offers special thanks to the generous, enthusiastic, and longstanding benefactors whose extended loan and additional support made these works from the Wyvern Collection available for exhibition and study. We also are grateful for support from the Stevens L. Frost Endowment Fund for this installation and the accompanying catalogue.
Contributors to the Website
New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection was curated by Kathryn Gerry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History. The student contributors who authored catalogue entries and many of the labels featured in the exhibition include:
Amanda Banasiak, ’20
Claudine Chartouni, ’20
Maria McCarthy, ’20
Olivia Muro, ’20
Camila Papadopoulo, ’20
Brooke Wrubel, ’21
Catalogues
This exhibition has an accompanying catalogue, New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection (New York and London: Scala, 2020), is available soon through The Bowdoin Store!
New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection (New York and London: Scala, 2020)
Related catalogues are in process of publication and provide additional information on works featured in this exhibition. Please see:
The Wyvern Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Metalwork (London: Thames & Hudson, 2018)
The Wyvern Collection: Medieval and Later Ivory Carvings and Small Sculpture (London: Thames & Hudson, 2019).
The Wyvern Collection: Byzantine and Sasanian Silver Enamels and Works of Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2020).