Paul Taylor (art historian)

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Paul Nicholas Taylor (* 1963 ) is a British art historian .

life and work

Taylor graduated from the University of Cambridge . Specialist in the iconography of the Renaissance and Dutch art directs the photo collection of the 1991 Warburg Institute . Taylor was the first to examine the important concept of "houding" in Dutch art. Paul Taylor is also active as a literary critic. In this capacity he dealt with the poet Friederike Migneco , who wrote under the pseudonym Cayetana Caruso .

Works

  • Dutch Flower Painting 1600-1720. New Haven and London (Yale University Press) 1995
  • Dutch Flower Painting 1600-1750. London (Dulwich Picture Gallery) 1996
  • Pictorial Composition from Medieval to Modern Art, ed., London and Turin (Warburg Institute and Nino Aragno) 2000 - ISBN 9780854811267
  • The Iconography of Cylinder Seals, ed., London and Turin (Warburg Institute and Nino Aragno) 2006 - ISBN 9780854811359
  • Iconography without Texts, ed., London and Turin (Warburg Institute and Nino Aragno) 2008 - ISBN 9780854811434
  • Meditations on a Heritage. Papers on the Work and Legacy of Sir Ernst Gombrich, ed., London (Paul Holberton publishing) 2014 - ISBN 9781907372544
  • Condition: the Aging of Art. London (Paul Holberton publishing) 2015 - ISBN 9781907372797

Web links

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  1. ↑ "The Concept of Houding in Through Art Theory." In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 55 (1992), p. 210-232
  2. ↑ Paul Taylor: “Untimely love poems Cayetana Caruso presents a disturbing bilingual collection of poetry.” In: Luxemburger Wort . The waiting area April 28, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Paul Nicholas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963