Michael Camille, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michael Camille

art historian specialized in the European Middle Ages

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1958

Place of Birth: Keighley, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Apr-2002

Profession: art historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Michael Camille (1958–2002), Mary L.
Block Professor at the University of Chicago, was an influential and provocative art historian who specialized in the European Middle Ages.
In The New York Times obituary of Michael Camille, The New York Times writes, "Mr.
Camille was noted for bringing contemporary critical theory and social perspectives to the study of medieval art.
Using anthropological, psychoanalytic, semiotic and other approaches, as well as traditional art historical methods, he described the Middle Ages as a time of complex social and political ferment with similarities to modern experience." Camille's new approach marked "a departure from the more popular conception of the period as a remote and static 'age of faith.'''The New York Times obituary of Michael Camille is titled "Michael Camille, an influential and provocative scholar of medieval art at the University of Chicago, died on April 29.
He was 44." "Camille's first article in the English journal Art History (1985) brought him immediate attention." Camille applied himself to "the traditional field of medieval manuscript illumination," but with new perspectives.
His work is translated into "Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean," and his book Image on the Edge "was reviewed by publications ranging from the Burlington Magazine to the Wall Street Journal."