John Pope-Hennessy
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| - | [[Michael Roaf]] to the study of the [[Persepolis]] reliefs, with results that further confirmed its validity. Morellian recognition of "handling" in undocumented fifteenth and sixteenth-century sculpture, in the hands of scholars like [[John Pope-Hennessy]], have resulted in a broad corpus of securely attributed work. At the same time, modern examination of [[Classical Greek sculpture]], in the wake of pioneering reassessments by [[Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway]], has also turned away from attributions based on broad aspects of subject and style that are reflected in copies and later Roman classicising pastiche. | ||
| + | '''Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy''' <small>[[CBE]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]], [[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]]</small> (13 December 1913 – 31 October 1994), was a [[British people|British]] art historian and museum director. He was a scholar of [[Italian Renaissance]] art. Many of his writings, including the tripartite ''Introduction to Italian Sculpture'' and his magnum opus, ''Donatello: Sculptor'', are now considered classics in the field. | ||
| + | == Bibliography == | ||
| + | * ''Introduction to Italian Sculpture''. 3 vol. in 5. London, 1955–63 | ||
| + | * ''[[Donatello]]: Sculptor''. London, 1993 | ||
| + | * ''Essays on Italian Sculpture''. London, 1968 | ||
| + | * ''Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum''. 3 vol. London: HMSO, 1964 | ||
| + | * Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 1987 | ||
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Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy CBE, FBA, FSA (13 December 1913 – 31 October 1994), was a British art historian and museum director. He was a scholar of Italian Renaissance art. Many of his writings, including the tripartite Introduction to Italian Sculpture and his magnum opus, Donatello: Sculptor, are now considered classics in the field.
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- Introduction to Italian Sculpture. 3 vol. in 5. London, 1955–63
- Donatello: Sculptor. London, 1993
- Essays on Italian Sculpture. London, 1968
- Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. 3 vol. London: HMSO, 1964
- Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 1987
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