Arthur Kingsley Porter's Pilgrimage to Romanesque Art: From Frontier to Modernity, 1900-1933

The author of trailblazing studies of medieval art and a globetrotter who vanished in Ireland, Harvard scholar Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883-1933) remains a legendary figure.A century ago Porter and his wife, Lucy Wallace Porter, crossed the Atlantic and enlisted the modern car and camera to redraw the cultural map of medieval Europe.His landmark Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads, illustrated with her photographs of eleventh- and twelfth-century sites, catapulted the medieval pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela to international fame and influenced collecting at European and American museums.In this groundbreaking new work Kathryn Brush situates Porter’s medievalism within his eventful life and shows that his North American experiences - including previously undocumented journeys into Canada’s wilderness - were central to the formation of his ideas and aesthetic vision.Drawing from thousands of unstudied archival and photographic sources, Brush reconstructs Porter’s wo