James D. Breckenridge
James Douglas Breckenridge (born August 8, 1926 in Brooklyn ; † December 18, 1982 ) was an American art historian who dealt primarily with the art of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as with the ancient portrait . Since his dissertation he has also devoted himself to numismatic questions.
He studied at Cornell University and Princeton University , where he graduated in 1949 and received his doctorate in 1957 . From 1952 to 1955 he was curator of the Clark Collection at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC , then until 1960 curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art . Since 1961 he taught as a professor of art history at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) .
Fonts (selection)
- A handbook of Dutch and Flemish paintings in the William Andrews Clark Collection. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (1955)
- Italian maiolica in the WA Clark collection: catalog. In: The Corcoran Gallery of Art bulletin 7 (1955) No. 3
- "Et prima vidit". The Iconography of the Appearance of Christ to his Mother. In: Art Bulletin 31 (1957) 9-32.
- Four centuries of miniature painting. From the collections of the A. Jay Fink Foundation and AJ Fink, pers., The Baltimore Museum of Art, Dec. 13, 1958 - Jan 25, 1959 (Baltimore 1958)
- The numismatic iconography of Justinian II, 685 - 695, 705 - 711, AD (New York 1959) (Numismatic notes and monographs, 144) [= Diss. Princeton 1957]
- Portraiture and the cult of the Skulls. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1964) 275-288.
- Multiple portrait types. In: Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 2 (1965) 9-22.
- Likeness. A conceptual history of ancient portraiture (Evanston 1968)
- The schools of Salerno - Medical and Artistic. In: Journal of the American Medical Association 216.1 (1971) 105-110.
- Evidence for the nature of relations between pope John VII and the Byzantine emperor Justinian II. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 65 (1972) 364-374.
- Lateranus redivivus. In: Art Bulletin 54 (1972) 69-76.
- The definition and diffusion of the standard Byzantine Christ-type. In: Évolution générale et développements régionaux en histoire d l'art. Actes du 22nd Congrès International d'Histoire de l'Art, Budapest, 1969, Volume 1 (Budapest 1972) 119-126.
- Origins of Roman Republican portraiture. Relations with the hellenistic world. In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World Vol. 1, 4 (Berlin 1973) 826-854.
- The iconoclasts images of Christ. In: Gesta 11.2 (1973) 3-8.
- Origins of Roman Republican portraiture. Relations with the hellenistic world. In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World Vol. 1, 4 (Berlin 1973) 826-854.
- Christian funerary portraits in mosaic. In: Gesta 13.2 (1974) 29-43.
- Apocrypha of Early Christian Portraiture. In: Byzantine Journal 67 (1974) 101-109.
- A classical quotation in twelfth-century Sicily. In: Gesta 15 (1976) 279-284.
- The role of Spain in the revival of the funerary effigy in medieval art. In: Actas del XXIII Congreso Internacional de Historia del Arte: España entre el Mediterraneo y el Atlántico. Vol. 1 (Granada 1976) 313-319.
- The reception of art into the early Church. In: Atti del IX Congresso internazionale di archeologia cristiana, Roma 21-27 September 1975 (Roma 1978) I 361-369.
- Three Portrait Gems. In: Gesta 18.1 (1979) 7-18.
- The Two Sicilies, In: Islam and the Medieval West (SUNY Press 1979)
- Christ on the Lyre-backed throne. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 34-35 (1980-81) 247-260.
- Again the Carmagnola. In: Gesta 20.1 (1981) 1-7.
- Roman imperial portraiture from Augustus to Gallienus. In: Rise and Decline of the Roman World Vol. 2, 12, 2 (Berlin 1981) 477-512.
- The uses and abuses of numismatic iconography. In: Problemi di metodo: condizioni di esistenza di una storia dell'arte. Atti del XXIV Congresso Internazionale di Storia dell'Arte, Bologna 1979 (Bologna 1982) 153-158.
- Coins verify Hannibal identification. In: Coin World 23, no. 1137 (1982) 29-30.
- with GMA Richter, The relation of Early Imperial Rome to Greek art. In: Rise and Decline of the Roman World Vol. 2, 12, 1 (Berlin 1982) 3-23.
- Hannibal as Alexander. In: Ancient World 7 (1983) 111-128.
- A missing eye. In: Ancient World 20 (1989) 3-4.
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SURNAME | Breckenridge, James D. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breckenridge, James Douglas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |
DATE OF DEATH | 18th December 1982 |