Paul Crossley

Bernard Paul Crossley, (19 July 1945 – 11 December 2019) was Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2016. He was a specialist in the architecture of medieval Central Europe.

Academic education Crossley was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected President of the Cambridge Union. He studied law between 1963 and 1965 before switching to History of Art, graduating in 1967.

Career Before joining the Courtauld Institute, he was Reader in the History of Art at the Manchester University

Photographs taken by Crossley are held in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute, and are currently being digitised.

Scholarship Matthew Reeve suggests that "from its beginning, Paul Crossley's scholarship offered a wholly catholic vision of late medieval art". Crossley's PhD thesis focused on the architectural patronage of King Casimir III the Great (1320–80), "research that, to a large extent, introduced the architecture of Poland to British scholarship". Crossley died on 11 December 2019 at the age of 74.