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Yashiro, Yukio

Full Name: Yashiro, Yukio

Gender: male

Date Born: 1890

Date Died: 1975

Home Country/ies: Japan


Overview

Director of the Institute for Art Research in Tokyo; Botticelli scholar. His archives are housed at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama and Kamakura.




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Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen


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Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen. "Yashiro, Yukio." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/yashiroy/.


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Director of the Institute for Art Research in Tokyo; Botticelli scholar. His archives are housed at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama and Kamakura.

Yates, Frances, Dame

Full Name: Yates, Frances, Dame

Other Names:

  • Dame Frances Yates

Gender: female

Date Born: 1899

Date Died: 1981

Place Born: Southsea, Portsmouth, England, UK

Place Died: Surbiton, Kingston-upon-Thames, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Renaissance


Overview

Historian and art historian of the Renaissance; Reader and Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute. Yates’ parents were James Alfred Yates, a naval architect, and Hannah Eliza Malpas. She attended Birkenhead High School 1913-17. Through part-time correspondence study, she was granted degree in French at University College, London, achieving firsts, in 1924, and an M.A. at the same institution on French Theater in 1926. Although raised in a family of modest income, Yates was left enough money to pursue a career of an independent scholar. Initially she wrote criticism and history on Shakespeare’s work. In 1936 she began to visit the Warburg Institute for her research. By 1941 she had joined the staff as a part-time employee, advancing to full-time lecturer and editor of publications in 1944. In 1947 she published The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century, a study of the artistic and literary activities. In the late 1940s and 50s, she concentrated on Renaissance philosophical traditions, the result of which was her 1964 Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. In 1956 she was made reader in the history of the Renaissance at the Warburg. Most important to the study of art history was her 1959 book, The Valois Tapestries, which traced the intellectual, religious and political traditions incorporated in those works of art. Her 1966 The Art of Memory, described how Roman oratorical devices gained religious significance in later centuries. She received a D. Lit. from London University in 1965, retiring as an honorary fellow from the Warburg, now part of the University of London, in 1967. Theatre of the World, 1969, examined Vitruvian tradition on Elizabethan public theaters. Yates’ mastery of occult literature was brought together in her collected essays, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, 1979. Methodologically, Yates represented scholarship in the Warburg tradition. She studied all aspects of a cultural event, preferring to envision it as cultural phenomenon rather than simply isolated objects. Her 1947 monograph on the French academies draws inspiration from Love’s Labour’s Lost, examining the political, religious, artistic and philosophical implications of the institutional commissions. Likewise, The Valois Tapestries uses evidence from art (major as well as the minor arts) to illuminate significance of the tapestries’ symbolism. Among her other, non-art historical scholarship, she is known for her work on Giordano Bruno. Her papers were left to the Warburg Institute.


Selected Bibliography

The Art of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1966; Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century. 2nd ed. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1975; The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century. (Studies of the Warburg Institute : 15) London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1947; Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1964.


Sources

Dictionary of National Biography 1981-85: 433-4; The Dictionary of Art; Vickers, Brian. “Frances Yates and the Writing of History.” Journal of Modern History 51, no. 2 (1979): 287-316; Frances A. Yates 1899-1981. London: Warburg Institute, 1982.


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Historian and art historian of the Renaissance; Reader and Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute. Yates’ parents were James Alfred Yates, a naval architect, and Hannah Eliza Malpas. She attended Birkenhead High School 1913-17. Through part-time corre

Young, Andrew McLaren

Full Name: Young, Andrew McLaren

Gender: male

Date Born: 1913

Date Died: 1975

Place Born: Southend, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

Place Died: London, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): painting (visual works)


Overview

Whistler scholar and Richmond professor of Fine Art, University of Glasgow, 1965-75. Young was the son of Robert Comingo Young (1882-1946) a Presbyterian missionary, and Olga Parsons (1890-1939). He attended Jamaica College (to 1930), in Kingston, Jamaica where his father was assigned. He returned to Scotland where he continuing studying at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh and after 1932 at the University of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh the lectures David Talbot Rice convinced him to study art history. He joined the Tate Gallery as a temporary staff, without completing his degree in 1938. When World War II broke out the following year, Young joined the infantry. In 1940 he married Margaret Heath Halse (b. 1919). During the war he fought in Burma, north Africa, and Sicily where he was wounded in action. After his discharge Young joined the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham in 1946 under Thomas Bodkin. In 1949, he moved to the University of Glasgow to found department of art history and create a university art museum. His exhibition of Whistler paintings in 1960 focused on a more precise chronology of the artist’s work. In 1965 his achievements were rewarded with an honorary A. M. and a promotion to the first Richmond professor of Fine Art. His Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition followed in 1968. While attending the Royal Academy exhibition on J. M. W. Turner, he suffered a heart attack and died. He is buried at Keil Com Keil, Southend, Argyll. His catalogue raisonné of Whistler paintings was completed by and published in 1980.


Selected Bibliography

and MacDonald, Margaret, and Spencer, Robin, and Miles, Hamish. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler. 2 vols. New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art /Yale University Press, 1980; Glasgow at a Glance: an Architectural Handbook. edited, and Doak, Archibald, and Walker, David. Glasgow: Collins, 1965; Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928): Architecture, Design and Painting. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival Society, 1968; James McNeill Whistler: an Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works. London: Arts Council of Great Britain/English-Speaking Union of the United States, 1960 [Ipswich, Suffolk : W.S. Cowell].


Sources

Farr, Dennis. “Young, Andrew McLaren.” Dictionary of National Biography; [obituaries:] Farr, Dennis. “Professor Andrew McLaren Young.” Burlington Magazine117, No. 868. (July 1975): 487; Miles, Hamish. “Prof A. McLaren Young, Fine Art at Glasgow University.” The Times (London) February 12, 1975, p. 20.


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  • Andrew McLaren Young Papers [In Process], University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections, ACCN3658.

Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen


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Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen. "Young, Andrew McLaren." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/younga/.


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Whistler scholar and Richmond professor of Fine Art, University of Glasgow, 1965-75. Young was the son of Robert Comingo Young (1882-1946) a Presbyterian missionary, and Olga Parsons (1890-1939). He attended Jamaica College (to 1930), in Kingston,