Walter Oakeshott

Walter Fraser Oakeshott (born November 11, 1903 in South Africa , † October 13, 1987 in Eynsham near Oxford ) was a British education administrator and art historian .

Initially a teacher, he was director of Winchester College from 1946 to 1954 . From 1954 to 1972 he was rector of Lincoln College (Oxford) , and 1962–64 Vice Chancellor of Oxford University .

Oakeshott was actually an amateur art historian, but made significant contributions in the field of English Romanesque book illumination and was accepted into the Society of Antiquaries of London and the British Academy .

He was married to Noël Moon , a student of John D. Beazley , since 1928 . He named the so-called Oakeshott painter after them .

Works

• The artists of the Winchester Bible , London 1945
• The sequence of English medieval art illustrated chiefly from illuminated mss, 650 - 1450 , London 1950
• Classical inspiration in medieval art . London 1959.
• The mosaics of Rome: from the third to the fourteenth centuries , London 1967 = The mosaics of Rome: from the third to the fourteenth centuries , Vienna, Leipzig 1969 = I mosaici di Roma , Milan 1969
• Sigena. Romanesque paintings in Spain & the Winchester Bible artists , London 1972
• The two Winchester Bibles . Oxford 1981 ISBN 0-19-818235-X

literature

• CM Kauffmann: Sir Walter Oakeshott FSA , in: Burlington Magazine 129, no.1017 (1987) p. 808.
• Barbara Carpenter Turner: Sir Walter Oakeshott , in: Winchester Cathedral record 57 (1988) pp. 5-7.
• Jonathan Alexander, Maurice Keen: Walter Fraser Oakeshott, 1903-1987 , in: Proceedings of the British Academy 84 (1994) pp. 421-440.
• Jasper Gaunt: The principal published writings of Walter Fraser Oakeshott , in: Proceedings of the British Academy 84 (1994) pp 440-442.
• John Dancy: Walter Oakeshott: a diversity of gifts , Norwich 1995 ISBN 0859552195
• MH Keen: Oakeshott, Sir Walter Fraser (1903–1987) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004.

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