Hugh Honour
Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)
From the Review
November 7, 2002: Islamic Venice?
Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100–1500 by Deborah Howard
October 19, 1995: The Triumphs of Tiepolo
Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence by Svetlana Alpers, by Michael Baxandall
The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice edited by Jane Martineau, edited by Andrew Robison. Catalog of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London;
July 13, 1995: Burma: Splendor and Miseries
November 19, 1992: Restoration Drama (letter)
September 24, 1992: The Master Builder of Venice
The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino by Bruce Boucher
April 9, 1992: The Wonders of Angkor Wat: A Diary
June 13, 1991: From Here to Eternity
America's Rome Vol. I: Classical Rome Vol. II: Catholic and Contemporary Rome by William L. Vance
January 19, 1989: The National Gallery Competition (letter)
September 29, 1988: The Battle Over Post-Modern Buildings
Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College Cambridge by Cinzia Maria Sicca, with contributions by Charles Harpum, by Edward Powell, photography, design, and production by Tim Rawle
Quinlan Terry: The Revival of Architecture by Clive Aslet
Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order by Alexander Tzonis, by Liane Lefaivre
The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern by J. Mordaunt Crook
Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture by Charles Jencks
April 24, 1986: Bringing Back Algardi
Alessandro Algardi by Jennifer Montagu
March 3, 1983: From the House of Life
An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration: From Pompeii to Art Nouveau by Mario Praz, translated by William Weaver
Il mondo che ho visto by Mario Praz
August 12, 1982: From Alberti to Zoppo
Italy: A Cultural Guide by Ernest O. Hauser
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance edited by J.R. Hale
August 16, 1979: Piranesi's Year
Piranesi Exhibition catalogue by John Wilton-Ely
Piranesi: The Early Architectural Fantasies 1978-October 1, 1978 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), June 1,
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library by Felice Stampfle
Piranesi: Incisioni, rami, legature, architetturae Exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice), edited by Alessandro Bettagno
Disegni di Giambattista Piranesi Exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice), edited by Alessandro Bettagno
Piranèse et les français, colloque tenu à la Villa Médicis edited by Georges Brunel
Piranesi by Jonathan Scott
Piranesi by Nicholas Penny
The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi by John Wilton-Ely
Archäologie des Traums: Versuch über Giovanni Battista Piranesi by Norbert Miller
Rome: The Biography of Its Architecture from Bernini to Thorvaldsen by Christian Elling
July 20, 1978: What Chateaubriand Saw
Chateaubriand: A Biography Volume I (1768-1793) The Longed-for Tempests by George D. Painter
April 1, 1976: Luxe et Veritas
The Sculptures of Houdon by H. H. Arnason
Early Neo-Classicism in France: The Creation of the Louis Seize Style in Architectural Decoration, Furniture and Ormolu, Gold and Silver, and Sèvres Porcelain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century by Svend Eriksen, edited and translated by Peter Thornton
French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, The Detroit Institute of
1789: Les emblèmes de la raison by Jean Starobinski
The Roman Stamp: Frame and Façade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism by Robert M. Adams
June 28, 1973: Unsinkable Painting
Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa" by Lorenz Eitner
January 25, 1973: Sturm und Drang
The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli by Peter Tomory
Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray by Irene Tayler
Books by Hugh Honour
The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent (1991)
The Companion Guide to Venice (1983)
The Visual Arts: A History (1982)
Romanticism (1979)
The European Vision of America (1975)
The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time (1975)
Neo-Classicism (1968)