Personnel: Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project

CHARLES T. LITTLE, Curator of Medieval Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-director of the Limestone Project, has lectured and published widely on sculpture and ivory. His publications include The Cloisters Cross: Its Art and Meaning, editor of The Art of Early Medieval Spain: 500-1200 AD, and articles on Romanesque and Gothic sculpture in American and French collections.

JENNIFER M. FELTMAN, Associate Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and co-Director of the Limestone Project has published on multiple aspects of medieval sculpture and is currently researching issues of polychromy along with colleagues in France at the Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques. Her forthcoming study The Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project: The Study of Gothic Architectural Sculpture in America (Brill, AVISTA Series) offers a comprehensive history of the project.

ANNIE BLANC, geological engineer emerita with the Laboratoire de Recherches des Monuments Historiques, is the leading expert on medieval quarries in France. Her work and publications on the stone sources for medieval monuments involves research in the historical sources, field work in the quarries, and petrologic examination of specimens.

GEORGIA S. WRIGHT, formerly co-director of the Limestone Project and author of numerous articles on Gothic sculpture, was an authority on the monuments of medieval France. She was also a cinematographer specializing in French and British cathedrals and produced the award-winning educational films "Light on the Stone: The Medieval Church at Vezelay" and "Three English Cathedrals: Norwich, Lincoln, Wells." Read more...

DANIELLE V. JOHNSON, an American art historian long resident in Paris, specialized in medieval French sculpture in association with The International Center of Medieval Art and Wells College. Danielle was instrumental in launching from her home a medieval studies group bringing together visiting medievalists and also hosting music events like the Boston Camerata. Her home also effectively became the French headquarters for the Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project that had become an ICMA project. Read more...

PAMELA Z. BLUM, formerly a co-director of the Limestone Project and an historian of medieval art, wrote extensively about sculpture at the Abbey of Saint-Denis and nineteenth-century restorations at Salisbury Cathedral. See obituary...

GARMAN HARBOTTLE, an influential advisor to the Limestone Project, was Senior Chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he worked from 1949 to 1997. He brought new techniques to analysis of archaeological artifacts and had extensive experience in neutron activation analysis and the use of multivariate mathematical techniques applied to problems in art history and archaeology. He served as President of the Society for Archaeological Sciences and as editor for publications in the field of archaeometry. For his scientific contributions to archaeology he was awarded the 2002 Pomerance medal of the Archaeolgical Institute of America. He was named Senior Scientist Emeritus by Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2012.

LORE L. HOLMES was a Research Collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the chemist responsible for carrying out all phases of the Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project while she was there. Her work also included technical studies of ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics and Islamic ceramics, as well as experience in art history and editing.

Lore was the force behind this website. She organized help from her friends and family, wrote most of the text, obtained the pictures and permission to use them, and did all the data entry as well as the bulk of the data conversion and correction. Her aim, even in her last months, was to preserve and publish the data so it could be used by scholars and others. This website stands as a monument to her contributions.