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Elizabeth Francesca Prettejohn (born 15 May 1961) [1] is an art historian and author of several books about art history. Her books have included Rossetti and his Circle (1997), The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (2000) and Art for Art's Sake (2007). She has also co-edited and co-authored several publications. She has written exhibition catalogues and papers for journals such as The Burlington Magazine , Journal of Victorian Culture and Art Bulletin .
Prettejohn was the Professor of the history of art at the University of Bristol from 2005, before becoming head of the history of art at the University of York in 2012. She had also been the Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth and (briefly) the curator of Paintings and Sculpture at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. She studied at Harvard University, where she got her Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude), and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she got her Master of Arts degree in 1987 and PhD degree in 1991. [2] She is married to the Professor of Classics and Dean of Arts, Charles Martindale.
| Name | Year | Publisher | Notes |
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| Modern painters, old masters : the art of imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War | 2017 | Yale University Press | |
| The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso | 2012 | I. B. Tauris | |
| Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting | 2007 | Yale University Press | Won the 2008 Historians of British Art Prize for single-authored book on a subject from the period after 1800 |
| Beauty and Art 1750-2000 | 2005 | Oxford University Press | Part of the Oxford History of Art series |
| The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites | 2000 | Tate Publishing and Princeton University Press | |
| Interpreting Sargent | 1998 | Tate Publishing | |
| Rossetti and his Circle | 1997 | Tate Publishing | |
| After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England | 1999 | Manchester University Press and Rutgers University Press | Editor |
| Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity | 1999 | Yale University Press | Edited with Tim Barringer |
| Name | Time | Locations | Notes |
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| J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite (in Europe) J.W. Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantment (in Canada) [3] | 2008–2010 | Groninger Museum Groningen, Royal Academy of Arts London and Museum of Fine Arts Montreal | With Peter Trippi, Robert Upstone and MaryAnne Stevens. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 2003-04 | Walker Art Gallery and Van Gogh Museum | With Julian Treuherz and Edwin Becker |
| Adrian Stokes | 2002 June | Arnolfini | With Edwin Becker and others |
| Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | 1996-97 | Walker Art Gallery and Van Gogh Museum | With Edwin Becker and others |
| Imagining Rome: British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century | 1996-97 | Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery | With Michael Liversidge |
| Characters and Conversations: British Art 1900-1930 | 1996-97 | Tate Gallery Liverpool | With Fiona Bradley |
| Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector | 1994 | Courtauld Institute Galleries | Researcher |
The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as the Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist colleges for the study of the history of art in the world and is known for the disproportionate number of directors of major museums drawn from its small body of alumni.
The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London in central London, England. A member of the School of Advanced Study, its focus is the study of cultural history and the role of images in culture – cross-disciplinary and global. It is concerned with the histories of art and science, and their relationship with superstition, magic, and popular beliefs.
Lowery Stokes Sims is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art known for her expertise in the work of African, African American, Latinx, Native and Asian American artists such as Wifredo Lam, Fritz Scholder, Romare Bearden, Joyce J. Scott and others. She served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has frequently served as a guest curator, lectured internationally and published extensively, and has received many public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution.
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