Camille, Michael 1958-2002
CAMILLE, Michael 1958-2002
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born March 6, 1958, in Keighley, Yorkshire, England; died of a brain tumor April 29, 2002, in Chicago, IL. Medieval art historian and author. Camille was an influential scholar at the University of Chicago, where he studied marginalized groups like pagans and homosexuals and how they fit into medieval art. He grew up in England, and received a scholarship to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with first class honors in art history and English in 1980. He followed with his doctorate in art history from Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1985. After leaving Cambridge he moved to the University of Chicago, where he was the Mary L. Block professor of art history. Camille's first book, The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-making in Medieval Art, was published in 1989, and several others followed: Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art; Glorious Visions: Gothic Art; Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator, which received a Governor's Award from Yale University Press; Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England; and Monsters of Modernity: The Gargoyles of Notre Dame. Camille was a Guggenheim fellow in 2000.
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Guardian, May 16, 2002, p. 20.
New York Times, May 27, 2002, p. A15.
Times (London, England), June 5, 2002.