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Stephen Bann

born 1942

A Circle and an Oval in Piedmont 1982
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Biography

Stephen Bann CBE, FBA (born 1 August 1942) is the emeritus professor of history of art at the University of Bristol.

He was subsequently appointed professor of modern cultural studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and later appointed to the chair in history of art at Bristol in 2000. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998, and named a CBE in 2004.

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Artworks

Left Right

Orange

Stephen Bann
1964
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Fleece

Stephen Bann
1967
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Landscape of St Ives, Huntingdonshire

Stephen Bann
1980
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The Garden as a Parenthesis

Stephen Bann
1980
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Doves over the Sarthe at Solesmes

Stephen Bann
1980
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Chiasmus: Shenstone’s Kingfisher at Stowe

Stephen Bann
1982
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A Circle and an Oval in Piedmont

Stephen Bann
1982
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dominikus zimmermann, architect & plasterer

Stephen Bann
1966
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