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Maxon, John

Full Name: Maxon, John

Other Names:

  • John Moore Maxon

Gender: male

Date Born: 1916

Date Died: 1977

Place Born: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA

Place Died: Chicago, Cook, IL, USA

Home Country/ies: United States


Overview

Maxon studied at the Cooper Union between 1934 and 1938. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1941. He attended Harvard University where he received his master’s degree in 1945 and Ph.D. in 1948 on the subject of Tintoretto. That year he accepted a position as director of the University of Kansas Art Museum in Lawrence, KS. In 1952 he moved to be director of the art museum at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1959 Maxon was appointed director of fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, replacing Daniel Catton Rich. At Chicago, he was responsible for the early “blockbuster” shows, including Treasures of Versailles (1962) and Treasures of Poland (1966). He was Associate Director of the Institute between 1966 and 1972. In 1970 Maxon issued the survey catalog for the Art Institute, published by Harry N. Abrams. Shows featuring artists of the Institute’s strength followed; “Paintings of Renoir,” 1973 and “Paintings by Monet,” 1975. In 1977, while dining in a Chicago restaurant, he choked on food and died at age 60. Maxon was a strong personality whose art disputes could some times be personal. After two caustic reviews of works by fellow renaissance scholars Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat, the scholar David Rosand (b. 1938) accused Maxon of a senseless personal vendetta.


Selected Bibliography

[dissertation] The Early Tintoretto. Harvard University, 1948; and Rishel, Joseph J. Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1970; Bronzes of India and Greater India. Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 1955; and Cunningham, Charles C., and Stam, Diedre. Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: a Symposium, Rembrandt and his Followers. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973; Major Works from the Collection of Nathan Cummings. Chicago: the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973; and Mayer-Thurman, Christa C., and Kavanagh, Aidan, and Garfield, Donald L., and Allen, Horace T. Raiment for the Lord’s Service: a Thousand Years of Western Vestments. Chicago: Art Institute, 1975; and Keefe, John W., and Wise, Susan. Collected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute, 1976; and Wise, Susan, and Masson, Andre´, and Seiberling, Grace, and Marandel, J. Patrice. Paintings by Monet. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1975; Paintings by Renoir. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973; French Master Drawings from Claude to Corot. Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 1954.


Sources

[obituary:] “John Maxon, 60, Official of Chicago Art Institute.” New York Times May 26, 1977, p. 34




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Maxon studied at the Cooper Union between 1934 and 1938. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1941. He attended Harvard University where he received his master’s degree in 1945 and Ph.D. in 1948 on the subject of Ti

Mauricheau-Beaupré, Charles

Full Name: Mauricheau-Beaupré, Charles

Gender: male

Date Born: 1889

Date Died: 1953

Home Country/ies: France


Overview


Selected Bibliography

and Vigneau, André. Le château de Versailles: vues extérieures. Paris: éditions “Tel,”1943; Versailles. Paris: Draeger et Verve, 1949; L’art au XVIIme siècle en France. vols 5-6 of Nouvelle encyclopédie illustrée de l’art français. Paris: G. Le Prat, 1946-47.





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Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Marie

Full Name: Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Marie

Other Names:

  • Marie Mauquoy-Hendrickx

Gender: female

Date Born: 13 January 1906

Place Born: Saint-Josse-ten Noode, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

Home Country/ies: Belgium

Subject Area(s): Baroque, catalogues raisonnés, Flemish (culture or style), Netherlandish Renaissance-Baroque styles, and painting (visual works)

Career(s): curators


Overview

Van Dyck scholar, catalogue raisonné author and curator, Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Marie Hendrickx obtained a doctoral degree in Philosophy and Letters in classics (Histoire de l’Antiquité) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 1929 she joined the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels as an intern. Her appointment as librarian followed in 1931. She worked at the Cabinet des Estampes (Printroom) under curator Louis I. J. J. Lebeer. After her involvement in the acquisition of prints from the Joseph Havenith collection, she was charged with cataloging 175 engravings belonging to the so-called Iconographie of Van Dyck. The first editions of this collection of 80 portraits of Van Dyck’s contemporaries, made by various engravers after drawings and paintings by the master, had appeared in the 1630s. During a vacation in the United Kingdom, in 1933, Hendrickx studied prints of the Iconographie preserved in the British Museum. It soon became clear that a new catalog was needed, as a replacement of the 1877 catalog of Franz Wibiral. Hendrickx embarked on this project traveling to Paris and Great Britain as well as to the Netherlands, where she examined the collection of Frits Lugt. After World War II she returned to the Netherlands to visit Print Rooms and to inspect the collection of Johan Catharinus Justus Bierens de Haan. By that time she was married to René Mauquoy. She was appointed adjunct curator in 1949. In that year, Mauquoy-Hendrickx traveled to Italy on a grant from the Fondation nationale Princesse Marie-José. In the 1950s she visited several collections in Germany. Her catalog, Iconographie d’Antoine Van Dyk. Catalogue raisonné, was published in 1956 by the Académie royale de Belgique. She was elected a corresponding member of the Académie royale d’Archéologie de Belgique in 1958. In 1960 Mauquoy-Hendrickx was appointed curator of the Cabinet des Estampes succeeding Lebeer. In honor of the latter, an exhibition of the acquisitions of the Print Room between 1930 and 1960 was held in 1961. Mauquoy-Hendrickx wrote the catalog with the assistance of Lydia De Pauw-Deveen, Le Cabinet des Estampes. Trente années d’acquisitions, 1930-1960. In 1965 Mauquoy-Hendrickx continued her travels across Europe to study the prints of the Wierix brothers, who worked as engravers in Antwerp between 1570 and 1620. The acquisition of 500 prints of the Wierix brothers, in 1932, from the Havenith collection, eventually had made it necessary to replace the 1866 catalogue raisonné by Louis Alvin (1806-1887). After her retirement, in 1971, she kept working on this project. Her second magnum opus, Les estampes des Wierix conservées au Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, appeared in three volumes between 1978 and 1983, with an introduction by Lebeer. The art historian Carl van de Velde was responsible for biographical notices and archival documentation in the third volume. Researching the engravings of the Wierix brothers, Mauquoy-Hendrickx found new materials regarding her 1956 catalog, L’Iconographie d’Antoine Van Dyck. At age 80, as honorary curator, she decided to provide a second edition, which appeared in 1991. Mauquoy-Hendrickx was known for the scrutiny and precision of her research. Her catalog of the prints of the Wierix family was acclaimed, in 1984, by Antony Griffiths in the Burlington Magazine, as the “finest catalogue of old master prints produced since the Second World War.”


Selected Bibliography

“Recherches sur le portrait de Rockox par Anthonie Van Dyk” Bulletin de la Classe des Beaux-Arts 21 (1939): 67-110; L’Iconographie d’Antoine Van Dyck. Catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. Brussels: Palais des Académies, 1956; Portraits gravés belges. Brussels: Office de Publicité, 1960; and Liebaers, Herman. [exh. cat.] Le Cabinet des Estampes. Trente années d’acquisitions, 1930-1960. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 1961; Image de Bruxelles: Hôtel de Ville. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 1962; and Golenvaux, Achille. Un siècle de costumes militaires belges. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 1963; Les estampes des Wierix, conservées au Cabinet de Estampes de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier. Catalogue raisonné enrichi de notes prises dans diverses autres collections. Introduction de Louis Lebeer. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale Albert I, 3 vols. 1978 [actually 1979]-1983; L’Iconographie d’Antoine Van Dyck. Catalogue raisonné. Second revised edition. 2 vols. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale Albert I, 1991; ” Louis Lebeer: biografische schets” Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de grafische kunst opgedragen aan Prof. Dr. Louis Lebeer ter gelegenheid van zijn tachtigste verjaardag. Antwerp: Vereeniging van de Antwerpsche Bibliophielen, 1975, pp. 3-5.


Sources

Bulletin de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique 5 (1961) no 1, p. 3; Remy, Fernand. Le personnel scientifique de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. 1837-1962. Répertoire bio-bibliographique. Brussels, 1962; Sulzberger, Suzanne. [review:] “Marie Mauquoy-Hendrickx, ‘Les estampes des Wierix…’ ” Revue Belge d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art 47 (1978): 117-118; Wittek, Martin. “Préface” in Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Marie. Les estampes des Wierix, conservées au Cabinet de Estampes de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier. Catalogue raisonné enrichi de notes prises dans diverses autres collections. Brussels: Bibliothéque royale Albert Ier, 1978; Wittek, Martin. “Préface” in Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Marie. L’Iconographie d’Antoine Van Dyck. Catalogue raisonné. Second revised edition. 1. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale Albert I, 1991, pp. v-vii; Deveen-De Pauw, Lydia. Momenten in profiel. Tekening & tekst door Lydia Deveen-De Pauw. Brussels: Academic & Scientific Publishers, 2011, p. 180; correspondence, Bibliothèque Royale Brussels, August 2012.




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Van Dyck scholar, catalogue raisonné author and curator, Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Marie Hendrickx obtained a doctoral degree in Philosophy and Letters in classics (Histoire de l’Antiquité) from the Université

Mau, August

Full Name: Mau, August

Gender: male

Date Born: 1840

Date Died: 1909

Place Born: Kiel, Schleswig Holstein, Germany

Place Died: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): ancient, ancient Italian wall painting styles, archaeology, mural paintings (visual works), painting (visual works), and Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)


Overview

Early excavator of Pompeii and namer of the four Roman wall painting style categories; first to advance the hypothesis that Roman art was not dependent on Greek origins, but can be seen as a high achievement on its own. Mau trained in classical theology and received his Ph.D. in Kiel in 1863. A career in theology was halted when health reasons forced him to move Italy in 1872. He secured a position at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome studying Pompeian inscriptions under Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903). Mau’s work with Pompeii led him to investigate current excavations in that city, then under the direction of Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823-1895). Fiorelli’s systematic study of Pompeii formed the basis for Mau’s research on Roman wall painting. In 1882 Mau published Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji. Here Mau postulated his famous four stylistic periods, a First Style (decorative), a Second and Third Style, and a Fourth Style (illusionistic and architectural, based upon theater). This characterization of Roman wall painting remains the organization used today. Mau spent his professional life as the librarian of the deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI). His archaeological knowledge of the inhabitants of Pompeii was used to write an account of their daily life in 1886 for the updated series Handbuch der römischen Alterthümer, edited by Mommsen. In 1900, Mau published Pompeji in Leben und Kunst, a projection of the city as it might have been, based upon the archaeological record of the time. The book quickly appeared in many translations and remains a major guide to the site. Together with Friedrich Matz (1890-1974) and Eugen von Mercklin they published the library catalog of the Institute. Mau’s achievement was his early assertion that Roman art was not dependent on Greek origins, but rather should be seen as a high achievement on its own.


Selected Bibliography

Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1882; Pompeji in Leben und Kunst. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1900, English, Pompeii: its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan, 1899; Katalog der Bibliothek des Kaiserlich deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Rom. Rome: Löscher, 1913-1932; and Zangemeister, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm, and Schöne, Richard. Inscriptiones parietariae pompeianae, herculanenses, stabianae. Berolini: G. Reimerum, 1871 ff; Pompejanische Beiträge. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1879; Führer durch Pompeji. Naples: F. Furchheim, 1893; Das Privatleben der Römer. Volume 7 of the second edition of Marquardt, Joachim and Mommsen, Theodor. Handbuch der römischen Alterthümer. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1886.


Sources

Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 78-79; Medwid, Linda M. The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work. New York: Humanity Books, 2000 pp. 203-4; Kopf, E. C. “Mau, August.” Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 733.




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Early excavator of Pompeii and namer of the four Roman wall painting style categories; first to advance the hypothesis that Roman art was not dependent on Greek origins, but can be seen as a high achievement on its own. Mau trained in classical th

Matz, Friedrich (1890-1974)

Full Name: Matz, Friedrich

Other Names:

  • Friedrich Matz der Jünger

Gender: male

Date Born: 1890

Date Died: 1974

Place Born: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Place Died: Marburg, Hesse, Germany

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Classical, Cretan, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Near Eastern (Early Western World), Roman (ancient Italian culture or period), and seals (artifacts)

Institution(s): Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster


Overview

Specialist in ancient art of Crete, Rome, and the near East, in particular the art of seals. Matz was the nephew of archaeologist Friedrich Matz (1843-1874), and was often referred to as “der Jünger” (the younger). The younger Matz began his career as teacher at the Grauen Kloster gymnasium (advanced high school) in Berlin, 1914-1925. During these years he assisted in editing with Eugen von Mercklin volume two of the printed catalog of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut library begun by August Mau. In 1928, Matz published an ground-breaking text on the seals of Crete, Die frühkretischen Siegel. He joined the University at Münster in 1934, remaining there until 1941 when he moved to Marburg University (1941-1958). As a compromise candidate, was elected Rektor of Marburg in the difficult postwar years 1946-47. He was the editor of the Corpus der antiken Sarkophagreliefs and was the founder of the Archaeologica Homerica and Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel. Matz was also a specialist in Roman art and in later years and assumed the editor of Die Römischen Sarkophagreliefs from Carl Robert. He published a four-volume set on sarchophgi containing Bacchanal motifs. His students included Bernard Andreae. Strongly influenced by the work of Hans Sedlmayr and the Vienna School, he was one of the earlier proponents of structuralist theory (Strukturforschung), a German theoretical notion attempting to replace the concept of style with a spatial structural analysis, which was linked to cultural identity, for ancient art. His influence on the classical-era art methodology was as important as those of Aloïs Riegl and Heinrich Wölfflin. Other Strukturforschung scholars of ancient art included Bernhard Schweitzer and Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg and Gerhard Krahmer.


Selected Bibliography

Geschichte der griechischen Kunst. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1950; Die frühkretischen Siegel: eine Untersuchung über das Werden des minoischen Stiles. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1928; Die dionysischen Sarkophage. 4 vols. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1968-1975; Kreta und frühes Griechenland: Prolegomena zur Griechischen Kunstgeschichte. Baden-Baden: Holle Verlag, 1962, English, The Art of Crete and Early Greece: the Prelude to Greek Art. New York: Crown Publishers 1962; Dädalische Kunst auf Kreta im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern 1970; and Buchholz, Hans Günter. Archaeologia Homerica: die Denkmäler und das frühgriechische Epos. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967 ff; and Biesantz, Hagen, and Pini, Ingo. Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel. Berlin, Mann, 1964; Göttererscheinung und Kultbild im minoischen Kreta. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Wiesbaden, [by] F. Steiner, 1958; Katalog der Bibliothek des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Rom. Rome: Löscher, 1913-1932.


Sources

Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, 86 mentioned; Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 250-251; Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Die akademischen Lehrer der Philipps-Universität Marburg. vol II, 1911-1971. Inge Auerbach, ed. Marburg: N.G. Elwert Verlag (Kommissionsverlag), 1979.



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Specialist in ancient art of Crete, Rome, and the near East, in particular the art of seals. Matz was the nephew of archaeologist Friedrich Matz (1843-1874), and was often referred to as “der Jünger” (the younger). The you

Matz, Friedrich (1843-1874)

Full Name: Matz, Friedrich

Other Names:

  • Friedrich Matz der Ältere

Gender: male

Date Born: 1843

Date Died: 1874

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): archaeology, funerary arts, sarcophagi (coffins), and sculpture (visual works)

Institution(s): Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn


Overview

German archaeologist and art historian of sarcophogial sculpture. Matz was the uncle of Friedrich Matz (1890-1974), the German authority on Mycenae.


Selected Bibliography

Duhn, Friedrich Karl von, edited. Antike Bildwerke in Rom: mit Ausschluss der grösseren Sammlungen. 3 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1881-83; and Robert, Carl. Die Antiken Sarkophag-Reliefs. Berlin: G. Grote, 1880-1889




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German archaeologist and art historian of sarcophogial sculpture. Matz was the uncle of Friedrich Matz (1890-1974), the German authority on Mycenae.

Mattingly, Harold

Full Name: Mattingly, Harold

Gender: male

Date Born: 1884

Date Died: 1964

Place Born: Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK

Place Died: Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): coins (money), Early Western World coins, metal, numismatics, and Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)


Overview

Historian of ancient Rome and numismatist; responsible for a total revision of the chronology and study of Roman coinage. Mattingly was educated at Lays School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. An excellent student, he was awarded a Craven University scholarship and studied in Germany. He joined the British Museum in 1910 in the Department of Printed Books before moving to the Department of Coins and Medals. Initially he published on Roman history in general, issuing two books (1909 and 1914). During the First World War 1914-16 he served in active duty before reassignment to the Postal Censorship Bureau until 1918. Returning to the Museum after the war, Mattingly turned his interests to numismatics. He and Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, also of the Department of Coins and Medals, set about in a series of paper disproving the traditional dating of the Roman denarius. Beginning in 1923, Mattingly began issuing his catalog, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, a systematic study of Roman coinage. The somewhat more synoptic Roman Imperial Coinage appeared at the same time. These works were a thorough account of the subject which laid the groundwork for archaeologist and field scholars.


Selected Bibliography

Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum. 6 vols. London: British Museum, 1923 ff.; Some New Studies of the Roman Republican Coinage. Proceedings of the British Academy 39 (1953): 239-285; The Roman Imperial Coinage. 10 vols. London: Spink, 1923-1994; Roman Coins from the Earliest to the Fall of the Western Empire. London: Methuen & Co., 1928 [numerous reprints and editions].


Sources

[obituary:] . Harold Mattingly, Distinguished Numismatist. The Times (London). February 1, 1964, p. 10.




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Historian of ancient Rome and numismatist; responsible for a total revision of the chronology and study of Roman coinage. Mattingly was educated at Lays School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. An excellent student, he was awarded a Crave

Matthaeis, Adelbert

Full Name: Matthaeis, Adelbert

Gender: male

Date Born: 1859

Date Died: 1924

Home Country/ies: Germany


Overview

First director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Christian-Albrecht-Universität, Kiel. Matthaeis’ early interests were the gothic Cistercian architecture of France and Germany, which was the subject of his 1892 Habilitationsschrift. He studied the medieval wood sculpture of Schleswig-Holstein. As director of the Thaulow collection, he had attempted to create an independent “Provincial museum of medieval church art,” but this failed. Matthaei taught courses in 1896 on Hans Brueggemann and his attributed works. Matthaei researched in 1897/98 on the medieval carving altars Schleswig Holstein. Matthaeis lectured on a diverse range of subjects, including the history of the Italian painting from Giotto to Raffael, Rembrandt, and the history of the German art, and romantic art (in particular Moritz). Matthaei was an engaging lecturer, who hosted public talks on topics such as “introduction to the history of art,” in 1901. From 1902 onward, Matthaei excavated the church at Segeberg. In 1894, at the death of the classical philologist P.W. Forchhammers, the art history as a discipline was finally separated from Philology. The Institute was initially a projector for slides housed in a college building in the palace garden. Gradually books and art reproductions were added. In 1904 Carl Neumann began assumed Mattaeis’ duties.


Selected Bibliography

[habilitation:] Zur Kenntnis der mittelalterlichen Schnitzaltäre Schleswig-Holsteins, Leipzig 1898 published as Werke der Holzplastik in Schleswig-Holstein bis zum Jahre 1530. Leipzig 1901.


Sources

Albrecht, Uwe. “Adalbert [sic] Matthaei (1859-1924): Vom Provisorium zum Institut.” Kunstgeschichte in Kiel 100 Jahre Kunsthistorisches Institut der Christian-Albrechts-Universität. http://www.uni-kiel.de/kunstgeschichte/festschrift/matthaei.htm;




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First director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Christian-Albrecht-Universität, Kiel. Matthaeis’ early interests were the gothic Cistercian architecture of France and Germany, which was the subject of his 1892 Habilitationsschrift. He s

Mattausch, R.

Full Name: Mattausch, R.

Gender: female

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: unknown

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): Marxism


Overview

Marxist art historian


Selected Bibliography

Caspar David Friedrich und die deutsche Nachwelt: Aspekte zum Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Essays by I. Fleischer, R. Mattausch, B. Hinz, et al. Edited by W. Hofmann. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974.


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KRG, 139 mentioned



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Mathews, Thomas F., S. J.

Full Name: Mathews, Thomas F., S. J.

Other Names:

  • Thomas Francis Mathews, S. J.

Gender: male

Date Born: 1934

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Byzantine (culture or style), Christianity, Early Christian, Medieval (European), and sculpture (visual works)


Overview

Byzantinist and historian of Early Christian art and architecture. Mathews graduated with a degree in Classics and Philosophy from Boston College in 1957, receiving an M.A. in philosophy the following year. He taught as an Instructor in classical languages at Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, between 1958 and 1960. Mathews wrote a second master’s thesis in art history at New York University in 1962 before entering Weston College, Somerset, UK, for an Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S. T. L.) in 1965. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Mathews returned to the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, studying under the Byzantinist Hugo Buchthal and writing dissertation on early churches in Constantinople under Richard Krautheimer. For the 1967-1969 years he was a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. He initially taught as a visiting Professor (extraordinarius) in Archaeology at the Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, from 1969 to 1971. He returned to the United States as Associate Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, teaching until 1973. That year he became Professor of art history at U. C. L. A., returning to New York University in 1975 as Professor of the History of Art. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the 1977-1978 year. Mathews was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N. J., in 1990. As a Guest Curator for for the Morgan Library, New York he organized the “Treasures in Heaven” exhibit of Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts, Pierpont Morgan Library in 1994. He was appointed John Langeloth Loeb Professorship in the History of Art in 1993. A fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for the1996-1997 led to his appointment on the Visiting Committee to Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a senior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Washgington, D. C. In 2003 he received a J. Paul Getty Trust Collaborative Research Grant, to research his “From Pagan to Byzantine Icons in Late Antique Egypt,” 2003-2005.


Selected Bibliography

[dissertation:] The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy. New York University, 1970, revised and published under the same title, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Press, 1971; East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1982; Armenian Gospel Iconography: the Tradition of the Glajor Gospel. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1991; The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor: the Life of Christ Illuminated. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001; Art and Architecture in Byzantium and Armenia: Liturgical and Exegetical Approaches. Aldershot, Great Britain: Variorum, 1995; Art and Religion: Faith, Form and Reform. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri-Columbia, 1986; The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul: a Photographic Survey. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976; Byzantium: from Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York: Abrams, 1998; The Clash of Gods: a Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993; and Wieck, Roger. Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994.


Sources

Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 124; Institute of Fine Arts Faculty New York University (webiste) http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/faculty/mathews.htm.




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Byzantinist and historian of Early Christian art and architecture. Mathews graduated with a degree in Classics and Philosophy from Boston College in 1957, receiving an M.A. in philosophy the following year. He taught as an Instructor in classical