Английская Википедия:George Speake

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George Speake, Шаблон:Post-nominals is an English art historian and archaeologist.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and "a leading authority on Anglo-Saxon animal art."Шаблон:Sfn Currently Speake is the Anglo-Saxon Art and Iconography Specialist for the Staffordshire Hoard conservation team,Шаблон:Sfn and is working on the reconstruction of the Staffordshire helmet.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Early life and education

George Speake was educated at the Slade School of Fine Art in the 1960s, and the University of Oxford, where he studied at St John's College and at the Institute of Archaeology, in the 1970s.Шаблон:Sfn At Oxford he studied under Christopher and Sonia Hawkes, obtaining a Ph.D. in 1974 with a thesis about Anglo-Saxon animal art.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[1]

Career

Colour photograph of the horse terminal from the Staffordshire helmet
Horse head terminal from the Staffordshire helmet

Speake specialises in Anglo-Saxon art and iconography.Шаблон:Sfn As of 2016 he is working on the reconstruction of the more than 1,000 pieces of the Staffordshire helmet,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn following work on the Prittlewell burial, and teaching fine art and art history.Шаблон:Sfn In 2014 he coauthored a book on the Staffordshire Hoard, Beasts, Birds and Gods: Interpreting the Staffordshire Hoard, identifying among other characteristics an "eyeless, open-jawed serpent" depicted on the helmet's cheek guard.Шаблон:Sfn A paper on the helmet is due to be published in 2018.Шаблон:Sfn He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford.Шаблон:Sfn

Speake's 1980 work Anglo-Saxon Animal Art and its Germanic Background,Шаблон:Sfn written as the basis for his Ph.D.,Шаблон:Sfn is considered "a major break-through in Anglo-Saxon style studies".Шаблон:Sfn It provided a comprehensive look at "style II" art,Шаблон:Sfn the form of zoomorphic decoration used in Northern Europe from the middle of the sixth century AD to the end of the seventh.Шаблон:Sfn Hitherto the least understood style of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian animal art,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn style II is thought to have been reserved for the upper classes and is found prominently on the objects found in the Sutton Hoo ship-burial and in the Vendel boat graves.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Speake's work was credited with discussing every known example of the style through 1974—the date of his Ph.D.—and with proving that it was introduced to England from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.Шаблон:Sfn

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