Jean Bony

Jean Victor Edmond Paul Marie Bony (1908–1995) was a French medieval architectural historian specialising in Gothic architecture. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1958 to 1961, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Art at the University of California at Berkeley, from 1962 to 1980.

Early life and education Bony born in Le Mans, France on 1 November 1908 to Henri Bony and Marie Normand Bony. Bony has had a great influence on medieval scholarship within The Courtauld Institute, well beyond his time spent there, and still evident in the work of recent and current Courtauld scholars.

He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1958 to 1961). Winner of the Haskins Gold Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, linked to the publication of his book, The English Decorated Style (1979) Notre-Dame de Mantes, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1947. French influences on the origins of English Gothic architecture, Worcester, London: Trinity Press, 1949. French Cathedrals (with Martin Hurlimann and Peter Meyer), London: Thames and Hudson, 1951. (Edited and with an Introduction by Jean Bony), Henri Focillon, The Art of the West in the Middle Ages, Volumes 1 and 2, London: Phaidon Press, 1963. The English decorated style: Gothic architecture transformed, 1250-1350. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979. French Gothic architecture of the 12th and 13th centuries. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1983.