Iain Pears

Iain Pears

Iain Pears (* 1955 in Coventry , West Midlands ) is an English art historian and writer.

Life

Pears graduated from the Warwick School in Warwick . Following this, he studied art history and literature, among others, at Wadham College and at Wolfson College of Oxford University .

After successfully completing this degree, Pears became a journalist for the BBC , Channel 4 and ZDF . Between 1982 and 1990 he worked as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in France, Italy, the United States and Great Britain. In 1987 Yale University named Pears a Getty Fellow .

In addition to his journalistic work, a literary oeuvre emerged over time, which was repeatedly praised by the public as well as by official literary critics.

Pears is married and lives with his family in Oxford.

Works (selection)

Fiction

Jonathan-Argyll cycle

• The Raphael Affair . Gollancz, London 1990, ISBN 0-575-04727-5 .
  • The Raffael Coup. Detective novel . Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-25586-8 .
• The Titian Committee . Gollancz, London 1992, ISBN 0-575-05342-9 .
  • The Titian Committee. Detective novel . Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-15587-1 .
• The Bernini Bust . Gollancz, London 1992, ISBN 0-575-05338-0 .
  • The Bernini bust. Detective novel . Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-15627-4 .
• The last jugdement . Gollancz, London 1993, ISBN 0-575-05584-7 .
  • Death of Socrates . Detective novel . Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-25711-9 .
• Giotto 's hand . HarperCollins, London 1994, ISBN 0-00-649026-3 .
  • Giotto's handwriting. Novel . Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-15881-4 .
• Death and Restoration . HarperCollins, London 1997, ISBN 0-00-649875-2 .
  • Caravaggio's heirs. Novel . Diana-Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-17714-2 .
• The immaculate deception . HarperCollins, London 1997, ISBN 978-0-00-651111-3 .
  • Diabolic deception. Detective novel . Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-63426-0 (former title Die flawless deception ).

Standalones

• The portrait . Riverhead Books, New York 2005, ISBN 1-57322-298-4 .
  • The portrait. Novel . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-63443-1 .
• The dream of Scipio. Riverhead Books, New York 2003, ISBN 1-57322-986-5 (thematizes Somnium Scipionis ).
  • Scipio's dream. Novel . Knaur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-62667-5
• An instance of the fingerpost . Vintage Press, London 1998, ISBN 0-09-975181-X .
  • The judgment at the crossroads . Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-43204-5 .
• Stone's fall. A novel . Cape, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-224-08179-5 .

Scientific literature

Essays

• After browne . In: London Review of Books , Vol. 33 (2011), Issue 6, p. 12, ISSN  0260-9592
• In sum. Corporate support for art . In: Art in America , 76 (1988) 7, 55-59, ISSN  0004-3214
• Partronage and Learning in the Virtuoso Republic. John Talman in Italy, 1709-1712 . In: Oxford Art Journal , Vol. 5 (1982), Issue 1, pp. 24-30, ISSN  0142-6540

Monographs

• The Discovery of Painting. The Growth of Interest in the Arts in England, 1680-1768 . University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1991, ISBN 0-300-03829-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Translated by Klaus Berr.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Translated by Peter Meier.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Translated by Klaus Fröba.

Web links

• Iain Pears at Crime Couch