Charles Hope (art historian)

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Charles Hope (born April 11, 1945 ) is a British art historian and was the director of the Warburg Institute in London .

Life

Hope was the son of Sir Archibald Philip Hope, 17th Baron von Craighall and his wife Ruth (née Davis). He attended Eton College before studying history and art history at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. In 1975 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Balliol College , Oxford. He did his Master of Arts at London University . He then worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Warburg Institute. He headed this institute from 2002 to 2010, and was succeeded by Peter Mack. Professor Hope's specialty is the art of the Italian Renaissance from 1400 to 1600. He is a particular connoisseur of the painting of Titian , Giorgione and other northern Italian artists and he has dealt intensively with early art historiography, especially the work of Giorgio Vasari . Hope is a professor of classical history.

family

Hope has been married to Jennifer Katharine since December 20, 1970 and has one son.

Works (selection)

  • Titian . Jupiter, London 1980, ISBN 0-906379-09-1 .
  • The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini . St. Martin's Press / Phaidon, New York / Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-312-06140-4 (together with Alessandro Nova and John Addington Symonds ).
  • Giorgione or Titian? : history of a controversy . Frick Collection, New York 2003, ISBN 0-912114-23-1 .
  • Giorgiones Fortuna critica . In: Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Giorgione, Giovanna Nepi Sciré, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (ed.): Giorgione: Mythos and Enigma . Skira, Milan 2004, ISBN 3-85497-077-3 (essay).
  • Charles Hope: I Camerini del Principe . Le Immagini, Ferrara 2006, ISBN 88-902471-9-3 (together with Marco Borella).
  • Il regno e l'arte. I camerini di Alfonso I d'Este, terzo duca di Ferrara (=  Ferrara paesaggio estense . Volume 6 ). LS Olschki, Florence 2012, ISBN 978-88-222-6105-2 .
  • Charles Hope writes about the battle over the Warburg Institute: On Saving the Warburg . In: London Review of Books . December 4, 2014, ISSN  0260-9592 , p. 32-34 ( co.uk ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Charles Archibald Hope on thepeerage.com, accessed August 26, 2015.
  2. ^ A b Laureates 2002 → Past - History → The Warburg Library, London. In: dandavidprize.org. Dan David Prize, 2002, accessed August 26, 2015 .
  3. ^ Professor Peter Mack appointed Director of the Warburg Institute. In: ac.uk. University of London, 2010, accessed August 26, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hope, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hope, Charles Archibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian and director of the London Warburg Institute
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1945