Paul Joannides (art historian)

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Paul Joannides (born November 4, 1945 in London ) is a British art historian .

Career

Joannides works in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. From 1973 to 1978 he was assistant lecturer, from 1978 to 2002 he was a lecturer and from 2002 to 2004 reader in art history. He has been a professor of art history since 2004. Joannides is a member of the Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français .

Research priorities

Paul Joannide's research focuses on painting, sculpture and drawing of the Italian Renaissance . He also deals with the architecture of this era. He has written extensive publications on artists such as Masaccio , Michelangelo , Raffael and Tizian , and has also dealt with other great personalities of the Renaissance such as Fra Angelico , Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci . He has also published on French painting of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, studying the relationships between literature and the visual arts during this period.

Fonts

  • The Drawings of Raphael. Phaidon Press, 1983.
  • Masaccio and Masolino. Phaidon Press, 1993.
  • Michelangelo and his Influence. Exhibition of 68 drawings for the Royal Collection, circulated in three venues in the United States and two in the UK, October 1996-April 1998. The National Gallery of Art, Washington and Lund Humphries, London, 1996.
  • Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genius. Yale University Press, 2001.
  • Michel-Ange, Ecole, Copistes, Inventaire des Dessins Italy. Musee du Louvre Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2003.
  • Raphael and His Age - Drawings from the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille. Exhibition of 57 drawings shown at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, 2002–2003. Published in English and in French by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Réunion des Musées.
  • with Francis Ames-Lewis: Reactions to the Master: Responses to Michelangelo in the sixteenthcentury. Ashgate Press, 2003.
  • The Drawings by Michelangelo and his followers in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Joannides, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH London