Professor Peter Humfrey
Position: Professor
Telephone: 01334 462378
Email:
pbh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Teaching Areas
Renaissance Italy
Patronage and Collecting in the early 17th Century
Research Areas
Art of Renaissance Venice
Collecting Italian art in Scotland
Publications
The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini. Editor of essays by various authors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004
G. F. Waagen in Scotland', Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History VIII (2003), pp. 17-22
(with T. Clifford et al) The Age of Titian.
Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections (catalogue
of
exhibition at National Galleries of Scotland). National Galleries of
Scotland, Edinburgh, 2004.
'Masters and pupils, colleagues and rivals'
and 'Sacred Images' (essays) and catalogue entries in Bellini, Giorgione,
Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (catalogue
of exhibition at National Gallery
of Art, Washington, and Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna), ed. D. A. Brown and S. Ferino-Pagden,
New Haven and
London, 2006, pp. 39-97.
'The patron and early provenance of Titian's Three Ages of Man', The Burlington Magazine, CXLV (2003), pp. 787-91
‘Giovanni Bellini e i suoi committenti’ (pp. 67-76) and numerous entries in Giovanni Bellini (catalogue of exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome), ed. M. Lucco and G. C. F. Villa, Milan, 2006
'A new Saint Roch by Lorenzo Lotto', in Artibus et Historiae XXVIII no. 55 (2007), pp. 63-6
Titian: the Complete Paintings. Ludion, Ghent, 2007.
Titian. Phaidon, 2007.
Venice and the Veneto (Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance series). Editor of essays by various authors. For Cambridge University Press (2008)
Forthcoming Publications
Glasgow Museums: Catalogue of Italian Paintings
Recent Activities
Invited visitor, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris (2004)
Guest Curator, The Age of Titian: Venetian
Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections, National Gallery
of
Scotland, Edinburgh (2004)
Created Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella della Soldarietà Italiana (2005)
Member of organising committees of exhibitions on Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (2006) and Giovanni Bellini (Rome (2008)
Member of organising committee, Cima da Conegliano exhibition, Conegliano, 2010.
'Collectionnner les peintures vénitiennes de la Renaissance en Ecosse aux XVIII et XIX siècles' (lecture at Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, 2004)
'Tintoretto as a painter of altarpieces' (lecture at Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2007)
'Titian's Bacchanals and Alfonso I's camerino: new conclusions in the light of recent work in the Via Coperta' (lecture at University of Cambridge, 2007)
'La Vierge à l'Enfant en gloire
avec quatre saints et un donateur à Narbonne: quelques
questions non résolues' (conference on Venise 1500-1600:
la peinture vénitienne de la Renaissance et sa réception critique en
France, Bordeaux, 2006)
‘Giovanni Bellini and his patrons’ (Janson-La Palme Distinguished Lecture in European Art History, Washington College, 2009)
‘Patrons, piety and self-promotion in Venetian Renaissance painting’ (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009).
Selection of Books
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Painting in Renaissance Venice Yale University Press, 1995 |
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La Pittura Veneta Del Rinascimento Cantini, 1990 |
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Carpaccio Cantini, 1991 |
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The Altarpiece in the Renaissance Cambridge University Press, 1990 |
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Cima da Conegliano Cambridge University Press, 1983 |
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The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice Yale University Press, 1993 |
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The Altarpiece in Renaissance Italy Phaidon, 1988 |
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Dosso Dossi Exhibition catalogue, 1998-9 |
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Lorenzo Lotto Yale University Press, 1997 |
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Lorenzo Lotto Exhibition catalogue 1997-8 |
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Giovanni Battista Moroni Kimbell Art Museum, 2000 |
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Titian: The Complete Paintings Ludion, Ghent 2007 |
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The Age of Titian National Galleries of Scotland |
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The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini Cambridge, 2004 |