Francis Haskell (1928–2000)
Author of History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
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Works by Francis Haskell
Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque (1963) 125 copies
The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition (2000) — Author — 60 copies
Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Tastes, Fashion and Collecting in England and France (1976) 44 copies
The King's Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers (Paul Mellon… (2013) 27 copies
The Most Beautiful Statues : the taste for antique sculpture 1500-1900 : an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum… (1981) 3 copies
Associated Works
Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia (1966) — Translator, some editions — 139 copies
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- Canonical name
- Haskell, Francis
- Legal name
- Haskell, Francis James Herbert
- Birthdate
- 1928-04-07
- Date of death
- 2000-01-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Londres, Royaume-Uni
London, England, UK - Place of death
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Cause of death
- liver cancer
- Places of residence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Education
- King's College, Cambridge (B.A.|1952)
Eton College - Occupations
- art historian
Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford (1967-1995) - Relationships
- Haskell, Arnold (father)
Salmina-Haskell, Larissa (wife) - Organizations
- National Art Collections Fund
Trustee, Wallace Collection (1976-97)
Oxford University - Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1971)
Serena Medal (1985)
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (1999)
Mitchell Prize for Art History (1977)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1979)
Corresponding Member, Accademia Pontaniana (1982) (show all 8)
Foreign Member, Ateneo Veneto
American Philosophical Society (1994) - Short biography
- Francis Haskell was born on 7 April 1928 in London, the eldest of three children (two sons and one daughter) of Arnold Lionel David Haskell (1903-1980), a ballet critic, and Vera Saitsova (d. 1968), a Russian émigrée. He was educated at the London Lycée, Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. In 1954 he was awarded a fellowship at King's, where he developed his studies to provide a survey of Italian patronage from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth. The result was "Patrons and painters: a study in the relations between Italian art and society in the age of the baroque" (1963). In 1965 Haskell married Larissa Salmina, curator of Venetian drawings at the Hermitage, and in 1967 he was appointed professor of the history of art in Oxford, a post which he held until his retirement in 1995. Other major publications include "Rediscoveries in Art" (1976), "Taste and the Antique" (1981), written jointly with Nicholas Penny, "History and its Images" (1993) and "The Ephemeral Museum" (2000). Francis Haskell died at home in Oxford on 18 January 2000.
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