John Spike

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John Spike

John Thomas Spike (born November 8, 1951 in New York City ) is an American art historian, critic and consultant who specializes in Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting .

biography

John Spike is in New York City and Tenafly ( New Jersey grew up). His father, Robert Spike, was a participant in the US civil rights movement of the 1960s. His brother is Paul Spike, a writer and the first American editor-in-chief of the satirical British magazine Punch. After completing his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, he completed a PhD in Art History from Harvard University . He did his doctorate on the Italian painter Mattia Preti , an important representative of the Caravaggio School. It was the first full study of Preti. Spike was later honored with honorary citizenship of Taverna, the Italian hometown of Pretis, for his work.

During his career, Spike has organized art exhibitions and lectured in several museums. Examples are the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna ; the Galleria degli Uffizi (the Uffizi Gallery ) and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence ; the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth ; the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York; the Musée du Louvre , Paris ; the State Gallery of Stuttgart ; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta , and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC He has also lectured at Harvard , Yale and Princeton Universities, and the University of Malta .

Spike has also written books on Italian artists such as Fra Angelico , Masaccio and Caravaggio . He is currently working on a novel about the life of Michelangelo .

Spike has also written many books and articles on contemporary artists in New York and Italy. He was also a member of the jury for the first Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea , Florence, Italy, in December 1997. From 1998 to 2005 he was director of this exhibition four times. He was also the sole judge of the 2005 Turku Biennial, Finland and will also organize a sculpture exhibition there in 2011 in connection with Turku's designation as European Capital of Culture that year. He is currently working on the catalog raisonne of Richard Anuszkiewicz , an American artist from the Op Art movement.

Spike lives with his wife in Williamsburg, VA, USA, where he has been a Distinguished Scholar in Residence since 2011 and is still a curator of the Muscarelle Museum of Art.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Dissimilar Revelations. Essays on Neolithic Art, Fra Angelico, Velázquez, Goya and Cézanne , Edgewise, New York, 2003
  • Gregorio Preti, Paintings and Documents , Centro Di, Firenze, 2003
  • The Senso del Piacere. Una collezione di nature morte , Skira, Milano, 2002
  • Caravaggio , Abbeville Press, New York, 2001
  • Mattia Preti. Catalog raisonné of the Paintings / Catalogo ragionato dei dipinti , Centro Di, Firenze 1999
  • Mattia Preti e l'Ordine di San Giovanni tra la Calabria e Malta , Museo Civico catalog, Rende, 26 March - 12 June 1999
  • Masaccio. Fabbri Editori, 1995
  • Fra Angelico , Fabbri Editori, 1996 (German edition 1997: Hirmer Verlag, Munich)
  • Italian Paintings in the Cincinnati Art Museum , Catalog, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1993
  • Angel Orensanz Disegni: 1991-2000 , catalog, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Ducale, Pavullo
  • Rossano Naldi (1913–1994) , catalog, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, 1998

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  1. ↑ Taylor Branch, "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65." Simon & Schuster 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Spike, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spike, John Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian, critic, and advisor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City