Carola Hicks | |
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| Occupation | Art Historian |
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| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
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| Discipline | Art History |
| Institutions | Newnham College, Cambridge |
Carola Hicks (7 November 1941 – 23 June 2010) was a Britishart historian. She was a pioneer in the field ofbiographies of objects, which is the exploration of the history of objects and the ways in which their reception has changed throughout time.[1]
She was born Carola Brown inBognor Regis,West Sussex, and educated at theLady Eleanor Holles School and theUniversity of Edinburgh, where she took a first in archaeology in 1964. Carola returned to Edinburgh and gained her PhD, in 1967, on "Origins of the animal style in English Romanesque art".[2] Hicks worked at theBritish Museum researching theSutton Hooship burial, before becoming aresearch fellow atLucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and thencurator of the Stained Glass Museum atEly Cathedral. She became a fellow atNewnham College, Cambridge, where she taught until her early death.[3]
In 2006, her book on the history of the Bayeux Tapestry proposed a new theory on its origins, that it was commissioned in England byEdith Godwinson, the sister ofKing Harold and widow ofEdward the Confessor.[1]
Angela Thirlwell describes Hicks as a "glamorous academic and a serious populariser of art", who "swept the dust off old masterpieces, explained their cultural contexts and infused them with life for a new public".[3] Her book on the stained glass of King’s College Chapel at Cambridge, was serialized as the Christmas book of the week on Radio 4 in 2007, by the BBC.[1]
Hicks wrote and edited several books:
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