witcombe.sbc.eduChristopher L.C.E. Witcombe

Links to art history resources Art History News, Blogs, Videos Prehistoric Art Art in Ancient Egypt Art in the Ancient Near East Art in Ancient Greece Art in Ancient Rome Early Christian & Byzantine Art Islamic Art Art in Early Europe Early Medieval Art Gothic Art Renaissance Art in Italy Renaissance Art outside Italy Baroque Art 18th-Century Art 19th-Century Art 20th-Century Art Contemporary Art Art in East Asia Art in India & Southeast Asia Art in Oceania Art in the Americas Art in Africa Prints & Photography Art History Research Resources Dr. İ books (printed) İ books (digital) İ articles (printed) İ papers İ podcasts İ websites İ essays (printed) İ lecturing İ television İ personal İ INDEX WEBSITE arthistoryresources.net EMAIL witcombe@sbc.edu art historian Ph.D. in art history, Bryn Mawr College , Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA M.A. in art history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , Massachusetts, USA B.A. in art history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , Massachusetts, USA Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti , Florence, Italy research professor Eleanor Barton and Aileen ‘Ninie’ Laing ’57 Professor Emeritus in Art History Sweet Briar College , Sweet Briar, Virginia, USA scholar Research interests and lecture areas include Renaissance Art, Baroque Art, Renaissance Prints, Renaissance Copyright, Archaeoaesthetics, Vision and Perception, Vision Science, Neuropsychology, Image Studies, European Art, European Visual Culture, Mediterranean Art, Mediterranean Visual Culture, Modernism, Accademia di S. Luca, Greek Art, Roman Art, Prehistoric Art, Images of Women, Feminism, Leonardo da Vinci, Mary Magdalen, Sacred Places, Victorian Painting, Water books (printed) Eye and Art in Ancient Greece A Study in Archaeoaesthetics London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers , 2018 (256 pages, 4 b/w and 61 colour illustrations) Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria , dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today REVIEWS Ross Brendle, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 10.55 (2019) Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers , 2008 (469 pages, 320 illustrations) BOOK AWARD 2009 REVIEWS Madeleine Viljoen, Renaissance Quarterly 69 (2009): 1287-1288 Larry Silver, The Art Book 17 (2010): 33-34 Mark P. McDonald, The Library 11 (2010): 111-113 Eckhard Leuschner, Kunstchronik 8 (2010): 367-370 Peter W. Parshall, Burlington Magazine 152 (2010): 552-553 Rose Marie San Juan, Oxford Art Journal 34 (2011): 292-294 Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome Leiden: Brill , 2004 (414 pages, 37 illustrations) REVIEWS Angela Nuovo, Bibliographical Society of America 99 (2005): 346-348 Andrew Pettegree, Sixteenth Century Journal 37 (2006): 469-470 Brian Richardson, European History Quarterly 38 (2008): 517-18 books (digital) An Introduction to Art and Culture in Ancient Egypt Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 1 Apple Books , April 2019 (535.3MB) 187 pages, 873 images, maps, and diagrams In this first volume of Art in Ancient Egypt , chapters on Egypt and the Nile; Egypt and the Natural World; Hieroglyphics; Signs and Symbols; Egyptian Religion; Gods and Goddesses; Pharaohs and Queens; Men and Women; Life and Death; and Art and Architecture provide an introduction to art and culture in Ancient Egypt. This eBook is available for download A Survey of Art in Ancient Egypt from Predynastic Times to the Graeco-Roman Period Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 2 Apple Books , May 2019 (566.6MB) 135 pages, 732 images, maps, diagrams, videos, and interactive features In this second volume of Art in Ancient Egypt , the history of the art and architecture of Ancient Egypt is surveyed from Predynastic times to the end of the Roman Period. This eBook is available for download Art’s History in Europe Part 1 Apple Books , January 2014 (673MB) over 500 images, videos, maps, diagrams and interactive materials An introductory survey of art in Prehistoric Europe, Ancient Egypt, Near East, Aegean, and Greece. This eBook is available for download MORE INFORMATION The Visual Experience of ART Apple Books , May 2012 (230MB) 191 illustrations, 34 interactives This book investigates how you visually experience art. It examines how your eyes see and how your brain looks at the various components of different types of art. It explains how you gather impressions and make associations, how you perceive meaning, and how art affects your thoughts, stimulates your emotions, and enhances your life experiences This eBook is available for download MORE INFORMATION Venus of Willendorf Apple Books , April 2013 (42.7 MB) One of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the early 20th century is a small Paleolithic stone sculpture known as the Venus of Willendorf. Who is she? we wonder. What does she represent? Is this a portrait of an actual Stone Age woman? Or might this be an image of a prehistoric Mother Goddess? These and other questions are examined in this essay This eBook is available for download MORE INFORMATION 853 Beautiful Victorian Paintings Apple Books , July 2014 (710 MB) The book presents 853 Victorian paintings by 163 painters, including 16 women, spanning the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). The paintings, selected for their intrinsic beauty as works of art, are grouped by artist. This eBook is available for download articles (printed) The Chapel of the Courtesan and the Quarrel of the Magdalens The Art Bulletin 84 (2002): 273-292 Amazon.com , or access the article through JStor Vasari’s Knighthood (revised and updated version of 1991 article) Giorgio Vasari 1511–1574 The Painter of the Szeged Annunciation Edited by Szabó Tamás and Zombori István (Szeged: Móra Ferenc Múzeum, 2011), 81-85 (in English and Hungarian) Gregory XIII and the Accademia di S. Luca Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 54 (2009): 107-118 Albrecht Dürer's Prodigal Son. Source: Notes in the History of Art 17 (1998): 7-13. Two Avvisi , Caravaggio, and Giulio Mancini. Source: Notes in the History of Art 12 (1993): 22-29. Cesare Ripa and the Sala Clementina. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 55 (1992): 277-282. Access this article through JStor Giovanni Battista Mercati: notizie sui dipinti e sulle incisioni. Bollettino d'Arte 76 (1992): 53-70. Herrera's Papal Privilegio for the Escorial Prints. Print Quarterly 9 (1992): 177-180. Christopher Plantin's Papal Privileges: Documents in the Vatican Archives. De Gulden Passer 69 (1991): 133-143. Some Letters and Some Prints Dedicated to the Medici by Cherubino Alberti. Sixteenth Century Journal 22 (1991): 641-660. Access this article through JStor Vasari's Knighthood, Source: Notes in the History of Art 6 (1991): 9-13. Privileg...