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

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist coll ...

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

Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

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 Silk Road: 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

Ewenny Priory Ewenny Priory ( cy, Priordy Ewenni), in Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, was a monastery of the Benedictine order, founded in the 12th century. The priory was unusual in having extensive military-style defences and in its state of preserva ...

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 ''

Sherborne Abbey Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. It has been a Saxon cathedral (705–1075), a Benedictine abbey church (998–1539), and since 1539, ...

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

Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

), 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