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The early 16th-century baptismal font canopy of the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is one of only three such structures to survive anywhere in the British Isles. This study, inspired by the recent rediscovery of four attributable panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a trans-temporal account of the canopy’s initial creation and subsequent use, mutilation, and modification. Written by a team of scholars in art/architectural history, art conservation, heritage documentation, literary studies, and museum curation, it explores the installation’s multiple artistic, ritual, and cultural contexts, from late medieval and early modern Europe to modern-day North America. Contributors are Benjamin Baaske, Sarah Blick, Kate Duffy, Brent R. Fortenberry, Amy Gillette, Jack Hinton, Lesley Milner, Peggy Olley, Ellen K. Rentz, Behrooz Salimnejad, Zachary Stewart, Achim Timmermann, Charles Tracy, Kim Woods, and Lucy Wrapson.

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Amy Gillette (Ph.D., Temple University, 2016) is a research associate at the Barnes Foundation. She has published on pre-modern and modern objects in the Barnes collection, and on images of angels in medieval and Byzantine visual culture. Zachary Stewart (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015) is Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory and James M. Singleton IV ’66, FAIA, Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University. He has published widely on the art and architecture of medieval Britain.

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