Renaissance and Baroque Art
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.
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