Caroline Mary Elam (born 12 March 1945) is a British art historian specializing in Florentine architecture, art and patronage in the Renaissance. She has been a senior research fellow at the Warburg Institute in the University of London since 2012.
Caroline Elam is the daughter of John Frederick Elam OBE and Joan Barrington Elam (née Lloyd). Her secondary education was at Colchester County High School for Girls. She then obtained a BA in classics at Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford in 1967 and an MA in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1970. [1]
Elam was appointed as a lecturer in the history of art at the University of Glasgow from 1970 to 1972. She was subsequently awarded a research fellowship at King's College, Cambridge from 1972 until 1976. She taught the history of art at Westfield College, University of London from 1976 to 1987 before serving as editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1987 until 2002; she is currently a director. In addition to publishing articles on the history of art and curating exhibitions, Elam lectures widely in universities and art galleries. From 2002 to 2004 she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor for the History of Art at the Center for Advanced Studies for the Visual Arts in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. In 2004 she was appointed visiting professor at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence after winning the I Tatti Mongan Prize in 2003. She is currently a trustee of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and an honorary fellow of King's College Cambridge. In 2005 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford Brookes University. [1]
In 2009 Elam married the theologian, the Very Rev. John Henry Drury, Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford since 2003; prior to that, he had been Dean of Christ Church, Oxford between 1991 and 2001. [1] Until retirement, her older brother Nicholas served as a diplomat and cultural advisor, with postings in South Africa, Brussels, Bahrain, Luxemburg, Montreal, Zimbabwe and the Council of Europe; he was awarded a CMG in 1994. [2]
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ... In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry". The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.
The Burlington Magazine is a monthly publication that covers the fine and decorative arts of all periods. Established in 1903, it is the longest running art journal in the English language. It has been published by a charitable organisation since 1986.
The Courtauld Gallery is an art museum in Somerset House, on the Strand in central London. It houses the collection of The Samuel Courtauld Trust and operates as an integral part of The Courtauld Institute of Art.
Sir Nicholas Beaver Penny is a British art historian. From 2008 to 2015 he was director of the National Gallery in London.
William George Constable (born Derby, England, 27 October 1887, died Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 February 1976, was an art historian and gallery director. He was the father of Medieval Historian Giles Constable.
Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse was an English art historian and museum director who specialised in Roman baroque and English painting. He was Director of the National Galleries of Scotland (1949–52) and held the Barber chair at Birmingham University until his official retirement in 1970.
Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase was a British art historian, university teacher, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd Baronet was an English art patron and art historian.
Christiana Jane Herringham, Lady Herringham was a British artist, copyist, and art patron. She is noted for her part in establishing the National Art Collections Fund in 1903 to help preserve Britain's artistic heritage. In 1910 Walter Sickert wrote of her as "the most useful and authoritative critic living".
Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque. She is currently a professor of Art and Architecture at University of Toronto.
Caroline Arscott is an Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute.
Joanna Woodall is an art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she is a specialist in portraiture and Netherlandish art.
Michael J. Rosenthal is emeritus professor of the history of art at the University of Warwick. He is a specialist both in British art and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the arts of early colonial Australia.
David Bindman is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University since 2010.
Howard Burns is a British architectural historian who is professor emeritus of architectural history at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has also lectured at the Courtauld Institute of Art and was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge 1977-78. He is a specialist in the architecture of Andrea Palladio and is a member of the Accademia Olimpica and the Accademia di San Luca.
Deborah Janet Howard, is a British art historian and academic. Her principal research interests are the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean, and music and architecture in the Renaissance. She is Professor Emerita of Architectural History in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Christopher Kenneth Green, is a British art historian, who was professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art between 1991 and 2008.
Dillian Rosalind Gordon OBE is a British art historian who worked as a curator at the National Gallery, London from 1978 to 2010, latterly as Curator of Italian Paintings before 1460. She lives in Oxford. She was appointed OBE in 2011 for services to Early Italian Painting. She has authored and co-authored many books, including several National Gallery catalogues.
Eve Borsook was a Canadian-born American art historian, teacher and author, specialising in murals. Her other interests included the history of glass in relation to mosaics, 16th century Florentine ceremonial decoration, and Italian cloister art.
Julian Richard Gardner is a British art historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. A scholar of late medieval and renaissance Italian art, particularly patronage, and a Giotto di Bondone specialist whose expertise has led to a number of scholarships and appointments as visiting professor at various institutions both in Europe and America.
