Professor Peter Humfrey, FRSE
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
Venice and the Veneto (Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance series). Editor of essays by various authors. Cambridge University Press, 2008
‘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, 2008.
Entries for From Botticelli to Titian: Two Centuries of Italian Masterpieces (exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, 2009
Review of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese exhibition (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Musée du Louvre, Paris). The Burlington Magazine CLI (2009), pp. 791-3.
‘Cima e la pala d’altare’, in Cima da Conegiano: Poeta del Paesaggio (exhibition catalogue, Conegliano, ed. G. C. F. Villa), Milan, 2010, pp. 33-41.
‘La fortuna di Lorenzo Lotto’, in Lorenzo Lotto (exhibition catalogue, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome), Milan, 2011, pp. 61-9.
‘The collection of Old Master paintings formed by Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth at Garscube House, near Glasgow’, Journal of the History of Collections, XXII no. 2 (2010), pp. 235-44
‘La Vierge à l’Enfant en gloire avec quatre saints et un donateur à Narbonne: quelques questions non résolues’ in Venise & Paris1500-1700: La peinture vénitienne de la Renaissance et sa réception en France, ed. M. Hochmann, Geneva, 2011, pp. 55-61
‘A fresco fragment by Lattanzio Gambara from Sant’Eufemia, Brescia’, Venezia Cinquecento, XX no. 39, 2010, pp. 139-146
Review of Lorenzo Lotto (Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome), Apollo (April 2011), pp. 81-3.
‘The portrait in fifteenth-century Venice’ in The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini (catalogue of exhibition at Staatliche Museen, Berlin and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011-12, pp. 48-63.
Forthcoming Publications
The Reception of Titian in Britain from Reynolds to Ruskin. Edited papers of conference (Brepols, 2011/12)
Glasgow Museums: The Italian Paintings (2012)
‘The reception of Giovanni Bellini in Britain (c. 1500-1900)’, in Examining Giovanni Bellini: ‘An Art “More Human and More Divine’, ed. Carolyn C. Wilson (Brepols, 2012)
Giovanni Bellini: Catalogo Completo (with M. Lucco and Giovanni C. F. Villa). For Electa, Milan.
Bonifacio de’ Pitati: a catalogue raisonné (with Philip Cottrell).
Recent Activities
Member of organising committees of exhibitions on Giovanni Bellini (Rome (2008) and Cima da Conegliano (Conegliano, 2010).
External Review Panel, School of Histories and Humanities, Trunity College, Dublin, 2009
‘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’ (lecture at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009 and University of Tübingen, 2010).
‘The recent Giovanni Bellini exhibition in Rome: a summing-up’ (paper at annual conference of Renaissance Society of America, Venice, April 2010)
‘La fortuna di Giovanni Bellini in Inghilterra’/ ‘The reception of Giovanni Bellini in England’ (lecture at Ecole du Louvre, Venice; University of Leiden, 2010)
Organisation of two-day international conference on The Reception of Titian in Britain 1780-1880, St Andrews, 2011.
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 |