Robert Nelson

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I am an art historian with a core interest in medieval art, especially of the Byzantine Empire. But I also work on modern architecture from historical revival architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (i.e. Yale Campus) to modernism since World War II I am the grandfather of a beautiful little girl. My wife and I have two children, one a lawyer in the Bay Area, the other a graduate student working to become a therapist. I like reading contemporary fiction, gardening inside (orchids) and outside, and I collect American art pottery of the early twentieth century. But mostly I work on the book that I am writing about the long history of a medieval manuscript from the eleventh century to the present.

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Professor of the History of Art, Yale University