Julian Gardner (art historian)

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Julian Richard Gardner (born 6 May 1940) is a British art historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. [1] 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. [2]

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Early life and education

Born in Dumfries, Scotland to John Vincent and Jessie Lamb (Walker) Gardner and raised in Ebbw Vale, Wales, [3] Julian Gardner read for his undergraduate degree (BA) in history at Balliol College, Oxford, [4] graduating in 1961. He went on to study for a diploma in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art under the tutelage of many of the great art historians of the time as he described in an interview with Margaret Mullett when he was visiting scholar in Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks in 2014;

The Courtauld under its charismatic director Anthony Blunt was an exciting place, and there were many eminent emigré scholars who taught there and at the University of London: George Zarnecki, Nikolaus Pevsner, and, at the Warburg, Hugo Buchthal, Ernst Gombrich, and others. Younger English scholars, such as John Shearman and Michael Baxandall, were also making names for themselves. [4]

A Rivoira fellowship in medieval archaeology at the British School at Rome followed in the academic year 1965-6 earning him an MA from the University of Oxford in 1966. [2] He returned to the Courtauld and undertook a PhD; The Influence of Popes’ and Cardinals’ Patronage on the Introduction of the Gothic Style into Rome and the Surrounding Areas, 1254-1305 which Richard Krautheimer has described as ‘the best work in existence on the patronage of Italian art in the Duecento.’ [5]

Career

Concurrently with working on his doctoral thesis at the University of London, Julian Gardner taught at the Courtauld and lectured there for 8 years [6] until his appointment as Foundation Professor of the History of Art at Warwick University in 1974; a post he remained in until his retirement in 2008. In 2014 he was appointed an Honorary Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. [1]

Julian Gardner met and came to know the art historian Ernst Kitzinger when the latter retired to Oxford. He was partly responsible for the granting of an honorary degree (D. Litt) to Kitzinger by Warwick University in 1989 to which institute he donated papers on his death. [4] Professor Gardner penned the obituary for Ernst Kitzinger that was published in The Independent in 2003. [7]

He was also the author of the obituary for Professor John Shearman in 2013. [8]

In a review of his most recent book The Roman Crucible, the author concludes that "Gardner's book fills an important gap in late medieval patronage studies, and with its historical rigor and measured argumentation it is likely to remain the standard work on the topic for decades to come". [9]

Scholarships, appointments, and honours

Other

Julian Gardner joined the editorial consultative committee of the Burlington Magazine in 1975 [2] and serves, or has served, as a National Committee Member of the Comité Internationale d'Histoire de l'Art, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris, [1] the Association of Art Historians (AAH) [15] and was a member of the Curatorium of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence from 1993 to 2003. [6]

Gardner has delivered paper(s) to the Giotto Circle at the Courtauld Institute of Arts which promotes the study of the art and architecture of Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries [16] and, while he worked at the Courtauld, he contributed photographs to the Conway Library whose archive of primarily architectural images is currently being digitised as part of the Courtauld Connects project. [17]

Personal life

Julian Gardner was married to Ann Margaret Stoves who died in 1968. His second wife, they married in 1973, and fellow art historian, Dr Christa Gardner von Teuffe [2] is based at Warwick University and is a specialist in Italian religious art. [18]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor Julian Gardner - History of Art - University of Warwick". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 admin (21 February 2018). "Gardner, Julian". "Introduction." in, Bourdua, Louise, and Gibbs, Robert, eds. A Wider Trecento: Studies in 13th- and 14th-century European Art Presented to Julian Gardner. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Julian Gardner : Interview Track 3". wdc.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 jessicas. "Visiting Scholar Interview: Julian Gardner". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  5. 1 2 Bourdua, Louise; Gibbs, Robert (9 December 2011). A Wider Trecento: Studies in 13th- and 14th-Century European Art Presented to Julian Gardner. BRILL. pp. Serena Romano p.xiv. ISBN   978-90-04-21076-9.
  6. 1 2 "Julian Gardner: Da altare d'oro a pala d'altare: Paolo Veneziano e la Pala d'Oro". Kunsthistorisches Institut in lorenz – Max-Planck-Institut. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "Ernst Kitzinger". The Independent. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "Professor John Shearman". The Independent. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "KUNSTFORM: Julian Gardner: The Roman Crucible. The Artistic Patronage of the Papacy 1198-1304, München: Hirmer 2013, 516 S., ISBN 978-3-7774-2385-2". www.arthistoricum.net. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
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  11. ↑ "Warwick Farewell - Professor Julian Gardner". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
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  17. ↑ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Christa Gardner". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
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