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RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART The Library of Prof. Richard E. Spear, Professor of Italian Art, Oberlin College (1965–2000), Director Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin College (1972–83). Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin (1985–88) 1,757 titles in ca. 1,865 volumes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard E. Spear Richard E. Spear (born 1940 in Michigan City, Indiana) is an American art historian and professor who specializes in Italian Baroque painting. Education and academic career Spear was educated in art history at the University of Chicago (B.A., 1961) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1965). His research and publications have focused on seventeenth- century European art, ranging from a two-volume catalogue raisonné on Domenichino (1581–1641) to studies based on iconographic, psychoanalytic, feminist, and economic methodologies. He taught at Oberlin College from 1965 until 2000, where he also directed the Allen Memorial Art Museum (1972–83). He was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Washington University in 1983-84 and held the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1997-98. Since 1998, he has been Distinguished Visiting and Affiliated Research Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Main publications and research • Caravaggio and his Followers, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971, rev. ed., Harper & Row, New York, 1975 [1][2][3][4][5] • Renaissance and Baroque Paintings from the Sciarra and Fiano Collections, The Pennsylvania State University Press and Ugo Bozzi, Rome, 1972 • Domenichino, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1982 [6][7] • Domenichino, 1581-1641 (exhibition catalogue), Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1996, pp. 163–69, 368-473 • The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1997[8][9] • From Caravaggio to Artemisia: Essays on Painting in Seventeenth-Century Italy and France, The Pindar Press, London, 2002 • Painting for Profit: the Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters (with Philip Sohm), Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010 Spear’s research on prices paid to painters in seventeenth-century Rome is a searchable online database administered by the Getty Research Institute.[10] In addition to nearly a hundred articles on Baroque art (see From Caravaggio to Artemisia: Essays on Painting in Seventeenth-Century Italy and France, pp. 601–06, for a complete bibliography through 2002), he has published studies on the European painting collection in the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, India, and written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Artnewspaper, The Washington Post, and The International Herald Tribune. He was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin from 1985 to 1988. Distinctions and awards Spear was Art Historian in Residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1988. He received many research grants, including a post-doctoral Fulbright scholarship to Italy (1966–67), and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (1971–72), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1980–81), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (1983–84), the Guggenheim Foundation (1987–88), and the National Humanities Center (1992–93). Twice he won a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center (1996, 2007). In 1972 he was awarded the Daria Borghese Gold Medal for the best book of the year dealing with a Roman subject. References • John Canady, "For Scholars, Painters and Everybody", The New York Times, 7 November 1971, p. D 21 • • Douglas Davis, "The Roughneck Gang," Newsweek, 8 November 1971, p. 120 • • Robert Hughes, "The First Bohemian", Time, 15 November 1971, p. 54 • • Julius Held, "Caravaggio and His Followers," Art in America, LX, May–June 1972, pp. 40-47 • • Benedict Nicolson, "Caravaggesques at Cleveland", The Burlington Magazine, CXIV, 1972, pp. 113-17 • • Sir John Pope-Hennessy, “The Sensuous and the Cerebral,” Times Literary Supplement, 25 March 1983, p. 305 • • Ann Sutherland Harris, “Domenichino,” The Burlington Magazine, CXXVI, 1984, pp. 166-68 • • Guy Callan, “The 'Divine' Guido,” The Art Book, VI, 1999, no. 1, pp. 35-37 • • Philip Sohm, “The 'Divine' Guido,” The Art Bulletin, LXXXII, 2000, pp. 358-61 • Payments to Artists:Pilot Project: 17th-Century Rome, The Getty External links • Faculty page, Oberlin College • Faculty page, University of Maryland at College Park ARS LIBRI THE LIBRARY OF PROF. RICHARD SPEAR GENERAL WORKS 1 AACHEN. STÄDTISCHES SUERMONDT-MUSEUM. Führer durch das Suermondt-Museum Aachen: Skulpturen, Gemälde, Schatzkunst. [By] Ernst Günther Grimme. Photos by Ann Münchow. 2. verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage. (Aachener Kunstblätter des Museumsvereins.) (88)pp. Prof. illus. (partly in color). Wraps. Aachen (Verlag des Museumsvereins Aachen), 1970. 2 ADAMS, LAURIE SCHNEIDER. The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction. xvii, (3), 236pp., 4 color plates. 73 text figs. Wraps. New York (HarperCollins), 1996. 3 ADAMS, WILLIAM HOWARD. The French Garden 1500-1800. 159, (1)pp. 168 illus. 4to. Wraps. New York (George Braziller), 1979. 4 ADAMSON, JOHN (EDITOR). The Princely Courts of Europe: Ritual, Politics and Culture Under the Ancien Régime 1500-1750. 352pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Cloth. London (Seven Dials), 2000. 5 ALAZARD, JEAN. The Florentine Portrait. 235pp., 32 plates with 63 illus. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. New York (Schocken Books), 1968. 6 ALPERS, SVETLANA. The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. xxvii, (1), 273, (3)pp., 4 color plates. 177 illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Chicago (University of Chicago Press), 1983. Marmor/Ross M444 7 AMBERS, JANET, ET AL. (EDITORS). Italian Renaissance Drawings: Technical Examination and Analysis. Edited by Janet Ambers, Catherine Higgitt and David Saunders. 343, (1)pp. Prof. illus. (partly color). 4to. Wraps. Published in conjunction with exhibitions at the British Museum, London, April-July 2010 and the Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Feb.-April 2011. London (British Museum Press), 2010. 8 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS. Baroque Painting: Italy and Her Influence. Selection and catalogue by Stephen E. Ostrow. (38)pp. 22 illus. 4to. Wraps. New York, 1968. 9 AMHERST. AMHERST COLLEGE. MEAD ART MUSEUM; NORTHAMPTON. SMITH COLLEGE. MUSEUM OF ART & SOUTH HADLEY. MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE. JOHN AND NORAH WARBEKE GALLERY. Five College Roman Baroque Festival, Easter Weekend, April 11-14, 1974. Major Themes in Roman Baroque Art from Regional Collections. (20)pp.; Roman Baroque Sculpture. (18)pp.; Drawings by Guercino and His Followers. (12)pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. Amherst, 1974. 10 AMSTERDAM. GEMEENTEMUSEA. Tekeningen van Noord- en Zuidnederlandse kunstenaars geboren voor 1600. [By] Marijn Schapelhouman. (Oude Tekeningen in het Bezit van de Gemeentemusea van Amsterdam waaronder de Collectie Fodor. 2.) 147pp. 93 plates, numerous reference figs. Reproductions of watermarks. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Amsterdam (Amsterdams Historisch Museum), 1979. 11 AMSTERDAM. GOETHE-INSTITUT. Die Verkehrte Welt: Moral und Nonsens in der Bildsatire. / Le Monde Renversé: Morale un nonsens dan l’imagerie satirique. /The Topsy-Turvy World: Moral Satire and Nonsense in the Popular Print. Populärgraphik aus vier Jahrhunderten Sammlung Günter Böhmer. Nov.-Dec. 1984. 96pp. Prof. illus. (partly in color). Sm. 4to. Wraps. The exhibition later traveled to three other venues. Parallel texts in German, French and English. Amsterdam, 1985. 12 AMSTERDAM. RIJKSMUSEUM. 100 gouden herinneringen: Hollandse schilderijen/ Golden Memories: Dutch Paintings/ Souvenirs d’or: Tableaux hollandais/ Goldene Erinnerungen: Holländische Gemälde. (16)pp., 100 color plates. Sq. 4to. Wraps. Parallel text in Dutch, English, French and German. Amsterdam, n.d. 13 AMSTERDAM. RIJKSMUSEUM. Catalogue of Paintings. Historical introduction by B. Haak. xv, (1), 430pp. 134 reference illus. 4to. Wraps. Amsterdam, 1960. 14 AMSTERDAM. RIJKSMUSEUM. Hollandse schilderijen uit Franse musea. March-May 1971. Text by Jean Vergnet-Ruiz. 172pp. 70 plates (4 color). 4to. Wraps. Amsterdam, 1971. ARS LIBRI 2 THE LIBRARY OF PROF. RICHARD SPEAR 15 AMSTERDAM. RIJKSMUSEUM. Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. [By] Peter Sutton, with contributions by A. Blankert, J. Bruyn, C.J. de Bruyn Kops, A. Chong, J. Giltay, S. Schama, M.E. Wieseman. Oct. 1987-Jan. 1988. xv, (1), 563pp. Prof. illus. Oblong 4to. Wraps. Amsterdam, 1987. Marmor/Ross M476 16 AMSTERDAM. RIJKSMUSEUM. RIJKSPRENTENKABINET. Italiaanse tekeningen. I: De 17de eeuw. Door L.C.J. Frerichs. Sept. -Dec. 1973. 80pp. 55 illus. 4to. Wraps. Amsterdam, 1973. 17 ANN ARBOR. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. MUSEUM OF ART. Italy Through Dutch Eyes. Dutch seventeenth century landscape artists in Italy. April-May 1964. Organized, and with an introduction, by Wolfgang Stechow. (34)pp. 54 illus. hors texte. 4to. Wraps. Ann Arbor, 1964. 18 ANTAL, FREDERICK. Florentine Painting and Its Social Background. The bourgeois republic before Cosimo de’ Medici’s advent to power: XIV and early XV centuries. xxiii, (1), 388, (2)pp., 160 plates. 4to. Cloth. London (Kegan Paul), 1947. Arntzen/Rainwater M315; Chamberlin 1301; Lucas p. 82 19 ANTHONY, JOHN. The Renaissance Garden in Britain. (Shire Garden History.) 96pp. Prof. illus. (mostly in color). Wraps. Princes Risborough (Shire Publications), 1991. 20 ANTWERPEN. KONINKLIJK MUSEUM VOOR SCHONE KUNSTEN. Feitorias: L’art au Portugal au temps des grandes découvertes (fin XIVe siècle jusqu’à 1548). Sept.-Dec. 1991. Commissaires: Emilio