Francis Haskell
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
From the Review
February 18, 1999: Mysterious Masterpieces
Lorenzo Lotto: Master Painter of the Renaissance 1997-March 1, 1998; the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bergamo, April 2-June 28, 1998; the Grand Palais, Paris, October 12, 1998-January 11, 1999. an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 2,, Catalog of the exhibition by David Alan Brown, by Peter Humfrey, by Mauro Lucco
Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara Ferrara, September 26-December 14, 1998; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 14-March 28, 1999; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, April 27-July 11, 1999. an exhibition at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,, Catalog of the exhibition by Peter Humfrey, by Mauro Lucco, edited by Andrea Bayer
Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy edited by Luisa Ciammitti, by Steven F. Ostrow, by Salvatore Settis
March 5, 1998: The Art of the Possible
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon 12, 1998, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 10, 1998-June 7, 1998. by 1997-January an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 23, Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvain Lavessière
Augustin Pajou, Royal Sculptor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 26-May 24, 1998. by an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1997-January 19, 1998, Catalog of the exhibition by James David Draper, by Guilhelm Scherf
February 6, 1997: In Love with Light
Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 1996, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, January 24-April 27, 1997 Exhibition at the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, September 5-December 9,
Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Keith Christiansen
Der Himmel auf Erden—Tiepolo in Würzburg February 15-May 19, 1996 Exhibition at the Prince-Bishop's Residenz, Würzburg, Germany.
Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo—Masterpieces of the Würzburg Years by Peter O. Krückmann
Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections the Pierpont Morgan Library Catalog of the exhibition at the Harvard University Art Museums and, by Bernard Aikema, translated by Andrew McCormick
April 4, 1996: Ah! Sweet History of Life
The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga, translated by Rodney J. Payton, by Ulrich Mammitzsch
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale
March 23, 1995: Poussin's Season
Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 Paris, September 1994–January 1995, by catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 January 19–April 9, 1995, by Richard Verdi and others. catalog of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London,
Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Bonnat à Bayonne by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Poussin before Rome, 1594–1624 by Jacques Thuillier, translated by Christopher Allen
A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin by Richard Beresford
Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Condé à Chantilly by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat
Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt
Nicolas Poussin by Jacques Thuillier
Autour de Poussin Musée du Louvre, 1994, by Dossier-Exposition du Département des Peintures, Gilles Chomer, by Sylvain Laveissiére
Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology by David Carrier
July 15, 1993: Art & the Apocalypse
January 30, 1992: Only Collect
Le Géant, La Licorne et La Tulipe: Collections françaises au XVII siècle by Antoine Schnapper
Les Frères Goncourt: collectionneurs de dessins by Elizabeth Launay
J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector by Louis Auchincloss
Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800 by Krzysztof Pomian
Pricing the Priceless: Art, Artists, and Collectors by William D. Grampp
The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield
The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger
August 16, 1990: Titian and the Perils of International Exhibition
Titian 1990 and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC October 28, 1990–January 27, 1991 an exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice June 1, 1990–October 7,
Titian catalog of the exhibition, Introduction by Francesco Valcanover
July 20, 1989: Artemisia's Revenge?
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art by Mary D. Garrard
Pietro Testa, 1612–1650: Prints and Drawings (November–December 1988) by Elizabeth Cropper catalog of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with essays by Charles Dempsey, by Francesco Solinas, by Anna Nicolò, by Francesca Consagra
December 8, 1988: Thanks for the Memory
Les lieux de mémoire edited by Pierre Nora
Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830–1848 by Michael Marrinan
December 3, 1987: The Artist and the Museum
March 27, 1986: What's in a Portrait?
Degas: His Life, Times, and Work by Roy McMullen
Pompeo Batoni Introductory Text edited and prepared for publication by by Anthony Clark, A Complete Catalog of His Works with an Edgar Peters Bowron
Reynolds Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (to be published by Abrams in the fall) edited by Nicholas Penny
December 20, 1984: The Voyage of Watteau
Watteau: 1684–1721 by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, by Pierre Rosenberg, with the assistance of Nicole Parmantier
Antoine Watteau by Donald Posner
Le Serment du Jeu de Paume de Jacques-Louis David by Philippe Bordes
June 30, 1983: Enemies of Modern Art
May 12, 1983: Secrets of Caravaggio
Circa 1600:A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting by S.J. Freedberg
Caravaggio by Alfred Moir
Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard
April 15, 1982: Famous but Unknown
French Sculptors of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV by François Souchal
June 25, 1981: Out of the Picture
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried
October 9, 1980: Re-inventing the Eighteenth Century
La Peinture d'histoire en France de 1747 à 1785 by Jean Locquin
1700 tal: Tanke och form i rokokon an exhibition at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm October 5, 1979-January 6, 1980
L'Arte del Settecento Emiliano: La Pittura an exhibition at Palazzo di Re Enzo, Bologna, September-November, 1979
L'Arte del Settecento Emiliano: L'Arte a Parma dai Farnese ai Borbone an exhibition at Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, 1979
Chardin, 1699-1779 by Pierre Rosenberg. catalogue of the exhibition at Le Grand Palais, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979
Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France by Gabriel P. Weisberg, with William S. Talbot. catalogue of the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979
Civiltà del '700 a Napoli, 1734-1799 an exhibition at the Palazzo di Capodimonte, Naples, December 1979-October, 1980
The Architecture of the French Enlightenment by Allan Braham
Alessandro Magnasco by Fausta Franchini Guelfi
Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art by Fred Licht
John Flaxman edited by David Bindman. catalogue of the exhibition at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Winter 1979
The Fuseli Circle at Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s by Nancy L. Pressly. catalogue of the exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art 1979
L'Art européen à la cour d'Espagne au XVIIIe siècle exhibition at La Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Le Grand Palais, Paris, and Prado, Madrid, May 1979-April 1980
October 12, 1978: Yesterday's Today Show
The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions 1600-1862 by Richard D. Altick
June 15, 1978: The Ideal Director
Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World by David Robertson
March 17, 1977: The Uses and Abuses of Art History
Princes and Artists: Patronage and Ideology of Four Habsburg Courts 1517-1633 by Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe by Theodore K. Rabb
The Baroque Age in England by Judith Hook
December 9, 1976: The Not-So-Innocent Eye
Landscape into Art by Kenneth Clark
Le Paysage français au XIX siècle, 1824-1874: L'École de la nature by Pierre Miquel
October 2, 1975: Perplexing Painters
El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, with an Appendix by José Manuel Pita Andrade, translated by Robert Erich Wolf
Zurbarán by Jonathan Brown
Velázquez by José Gudiol
The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya by Eleanor A. Sayre. the Department of Prints and Drawings
Goya: 67 Drawings Introduction and comments by A. Hyatt Mayor
June 1, 1972: The English Invade Paris
"Peinture Romantique Anglaise" Petit Palais (Paris) Winter/Spring, 1972
December 30, 1971: Rubens and Marie
Rubens' Life of Marie de' Medici by Jacques Thuillier, by Jacques Foucart
December 16, 1971: The Raw & The Cooked
John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors by Richard Ormond
Gauguin's Paradise Lost by Wayne Andersen, by Barbara Klein
June 17, 1971: Go for Baroque
Roma Barocca by Paolo Portoghesi, by Barbara Luigia La Penta
January 7, 1971: From Courbet to Che
Social Radicalism and the Arts: Western Europe by Donald Drew Egbert
July 2, 1970: Explaining Titian's Egg Seller
Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic by Erwin Panofsky
Tiziano by Rodolfo Pallucchini
Titian—The Religious Paintings by Harold E. Wethey
Giorgione by Terisio Pignatti
December 18, 1969: The Beholder's Eye
Prints and Visual Communication by William Ivins Jr.
Prints and Books: Informal Papers by William Ivins Jr.
Notes on Prints by William Ivins Jr.
How Prints Look, Photographs with a Commentary by William Ivins Jr.
July 10, 1969: Catching Up with the Avant-Garde
Art News Annual, XXXIII "The Academy: Five Centuries of Grandeur and Misery from the Carracci to Mao Tse-Tung" edited by Thomas B. Hess, edited by John Ashbery
Art News Annual, XXXIV "The Avant-Garde" edited by Thomas B. Hess, edited by John Ashbery
Art Forum, March 1969 "Manet's Sources—Aspects of His Art, 1859-1865" by Michael Fried
Word and Image: Posters from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR by John Berger
December 19, 1968: Daumier's Human Comedy
Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by K.E. Maison
July 11, 1968: A Strange Painter
"Ingres" Petit Palais, Paris. Oct. 27, 1967—January 29, 1968
"Ingres in Italia" Villa Medici, Rome. February 26, 1968—April 28, 1968
Ingres Centennial: Drawings, Water-colors, and Oil Sketches from the American Collection, Fogg Art Museum by Agnes Mongan, by Dr. Hans Naef
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres by Robert Rosenblum
Ingres—A Biographical and Critical Study by Gaëtan Picon
Transformation in Late Eighteenth Century Art by Robert Rosenblum
February 15, 1968: Super-Painter
Nicolas Poussin (A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Sir Anthony Blunt
The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin: A Critical Study by Sir Anthony Blunt
Poussin by Sir Anthony Blunt
Nicolas Poussin: Lettres et propos sur l'art compiled by Sir Anthony Blunt
Poussin by Walter Friedlaender
Le voir et le savoir—essai sur Nicolas Poussin by Pierre Schneider
December 7, 1967: Expo 1900
Paris 1900: The Great World's Fair by Richard D. Mandell
June 29, 1967: Odd Man In
The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley
The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley
The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley
The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
The Story of Venus and Tannhauser by Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography by Stanley Weintraub
Aubrey Beardsley by Brian Reade
The Art Nouveau Book in Britain by John Russell Taylor
The Flowering of Art Nouveau by Maurice Rheims
May 18, 1967: Who's Eccentric? (letter)
April 6, 1967: The Horror in Hogarth
Hogarth's Graphic Works compiled and with a commentary by Ronald Paulson
The World of Hogarth: Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings translated and with an Introduction by Innes Herdan, by Gustav Herdan
March 9, 1967: News from Nowhere
The Grand Eccentrics—Art News Annual XXXII edited by Thomas B. Hess
December 1, 1966: The Founding Father
J. M. W. Turner: A Critical Biography by Jack Lindsay
The Sunset Ship: The Poems of J. M. W. Turner edited, with an essay, by Jack Lindsay
Turner by John Rothenstein, by Martin Butlin
Turner: Imagination and Reality by Lawrence Gowing
August 18, 1966: Constable: The Dark Side
Constable Oil Sketches Watson-Guptill this Fall) by John Baskett
John Constable: The Man and His Work by Carlos Peacock
July 7, 1966: Gauguin's Arcadia
Gauguin in the South Seas by Bengt Danielsson
December 9, 1965: The Cathedrals of Rodin
Cathedrals of France by Auguste Rodin, translated by Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler
September 30, 1965: The Breakup
Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World by Harrison White, by Cynthia White
August 5, 1965: In Russia's Museums
The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad by Pierre Descargues
Great Paintings from the Pushkin Museum, Moscow by K.M. Malitskava
Medieval Georgian Enamels of Russia by Shalva Amiranahvili
The Art and Artists of Russia by Richard Hare
April 8, 1965: A Hidden Life
John Addington Symonds: A Biography by Phyllis Grosskurth
December 3, 1964: Whistler and Lautrec
Art Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler by Denys Sutton
Lautrec by Lautrec by P. Huisman, by M.G. Dortu
November 19, 1964: Impressions of Degas
My Friend Degas by Daniel Halévy, translated and edited, with notes by Mina Curtiss
The Unknown Degas and Renoir in the National Museum of Belgrade by Denis Rouart
September 10, 1964: Delacroix
Delacroix by Lee Johnson
Delacroix by René Huyghe
September 10, 1964: Art & Society (letter)
June 11, 1964: Art and Society Again
Art, Artists and Society by Geraldine Pelles
Bohemian versus Bourgeois by César Graña
April 2, 1964: Ruskin
The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings edited with an Introduction by John D. Rosenberg
February 6, 1964: Mannerisms
Mannerism and Maniera by Craig Hugh Smyth
Italian Mannerism by Giuliano Briganti
Mannerism, the European Style of the Sixteenth Century by Franzsepp Würtenberger
Books by Francis Haskell
The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition (2000)
History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past (1993)
The Painful Birth of the Art Book (1987)
Essays on Taste and Patronage (1987)
Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays (1987)
Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900 (1981)
Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations Between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque (1980)
Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion, and Collecting in England and France (1976)
An Italian Patron of French Neo-Classic Art (1972)