Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of European Art at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3]
In 2018, Whistler was awarded the British Academy Medal for her book Venice and Drawing, 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collection; the Medal is awarded "for landmark academic achievement in any of the humanities and social science disciplines supported by the Academy".[4][5]
Selected works
edit- Whistler, Catherine (2010). Paolo Uccello's The hunt in the forest. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1854442482.
- Whiteley, Jon; Whistler, Catherine (2013). Master Drawings: Michelangelo to Moore. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1854442789.
- Whistler, Catherine (2015). Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1854442994.
- Whistler, Catherine (2017). Venice & drawing, 1500-1800: theory, practice and collecting. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300187731.
- Whistler, Catherine (2017). Raphael: the drawings. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1910807156.
References
edit- ^ "Professor Catherine Whistler". St John's College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ "CATHERINE WHISTLER". Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ "Recognition of Distinction 2017" (PDF). Oxford University Gazette. 148 (5179). University of Oxford. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ "Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals". The British Academy. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ "Professor Catherine Whistler awarded British Academy Medal". St John's College. University of Oxford. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.