Michael Bury
has worked on various aspects of Italian painting, sculpture
and architecture, from the fifteenth through to the
seventeenth century. He has published articles on the
forms and functions of processional banners and on funerary
chapels and their decoration. In recent years, his main
research interest has been Italian printmaking of the
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
His exhibition,
The Print in Italy 1550-1620, was shown at the British
Museum, London, at Columbia University, New York, at
the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and at the National
Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Michael Bury's catalogue
for the British Museum exhibition won the Eric Mitchell
Prize for the best English language exhibition catalogue
of the years 2000 and 2001. ' "Magisterial" is the only
word to describe this stupendous survey...The scholarly
catalogue, by Michael Bury, could not be better' (Daily
Telegraph); 'a document that will not only support
the field [of the Renaissance] but open it up to many
new directions for a very long time to come' (The
Burlington Magazine).
In 2002, he
was awarded a major research grant by the AHRB for a
three-year project, Court Culture in Early Modern Rome,
1450-1750. This involves a collaboration with Carol
Richardson (Open University), Helen Langdon, and Jill
Burke (now Lecturer in History of Art at Edinburgh).
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