Henry Maguire

Henry P. Maguire (born 1943) is an English art historian, specialising in Byzantine art, and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in the History of Art Department. Between 1991-1996, he was Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute of Harvard University.

In 2020, a collection of essays were published in honor of Maguire, The Eloquence of Art: Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire, edited by Andrea Olsen Lam and Rossitza Schroeder (New York: Routledge, ).

Early life and education Maguire was born in Bath, England in 1943. In 1962 he attended King's College, Cambridge for undergraduate study where he spent one year studying archaeology and anthropology, later transferring to art history. He completed his graduate studies on the Bliss Fellowship, divided between one year each at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Harvard University.

Professional service and memberships He is currently a Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in the History of Art Department, having taught at Johns Hopkins from 2000 to 2010.

Selected works

Books and edited collections The Paintings of the Panagia tou Arakos. Art, Intercession and Theology. Nicosia: The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, 2019. Nature in the Byzantine Art of Cyprus: 24th Annual Lecture in Memory of Constantinos Leventis, 17 November 2015. Nicosia: The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, 2016. Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Variorum, 2007. With A. Terry. Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Efrasius at Porec. 2 Vols. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. With Eunice Dauterman Maguire. Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture. Princeton University Press, 2007. Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Image and Imagination: The Byzantine Epigram as Evidence for Viewer Response. Toronto: Canadian Institute for Balkan Studies, 1996. Earth and Ocean: The Terrestrial World in Early Byzantine Art. University Park: Pennsylvania University press, 1987. With Eunice Dauterman Maguire and M.J. Duncan-Flowers. Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Art and Eloquence in Byzantium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Archival collections Maguire and Eunice Dauterman Maguire's collection of books is held at the ANAMED Special Collection Library, at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, in Istanbul. According to ANAMED, the collection "consists of approximately 1,500 volumes of 20th-century to the present hardbacks, paperbacks, and periodicals pertaining to Byzantine art, culture, and related topics".

Photographs by Henry Maguire are held in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art. The photographs are currently being digitised as part of the Courtauld Connects project.

Personal life Maguire is married to Eunice Dauterman Maguire. Eunice is also a Byzantium scholar and studied alongside her husband at Harvard under the same supervisor, Ernst Kitzinger. Parani notes that "the interest of Eunice and Henry Maguire in the study of Byzantine secular culture is wide-ranging, long-standing, and widely acknowledged".

Their son, Gavin, was born in the 1960s.