School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr John Richards

John Richards
  • Senior Lecturer (History of Art)

telephone: 01413302000ext7307
email: John.Richards@glasgow.ac.uk


Office Hour: Thursday 1.30-2.30pm

Research Interests

  • Art in North Italy c.1300-c.1450, with particular emphasis on the work of Altichiero and his contemporaries and patronage in Verona and Padua.
  • The impact of humanist ideas on Italian art c.1350-1450
  • The role of Petrarch in the development of early Renaissance culture, and particularly in relation to the use of his ideas to drive the antiquarian and classicising ideologies of late-trecento and early-quattrocento Italy.
  • Late Gothic tomb sculpture in both Great Britain and Italy.

I am planning a critical and historical corpus of medieval fresco painting in Verona.

Jump to: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2007 | 2006
Number of items: 8.

2012

Anderson, Emily Jane, Farquhar, Jill and Richards, John, (Eds.) (2012) Visual exports/ imports: New research on Medieval and Renaissance European art and culture. Cambridge Scholars Press. (In Press)

Richards, J. (2012) Petrarch and Giotto in Padua: identity and friendship. In: Anderson, E.J., Farquhar, J. and Richards, J. (eds.) Visual Exports / Imports: New Research on Medieval and Renaissance European Art and Culture. Cambridge Scholars Press. (In Press)

2011

Cardarelli, S., Anderson, E.J. and Richards, J., eds. (2011) Art and Identity: Visual Culture, Politics and Religion in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Cambridge Academic Publishers. (Unpublished)

2010

Richards, J. (2010) Review of B. Cassidy, Politics, Civic Ideals & Sculpture in Italy c.1240-1400 (Harvey Miller 2007). Sculpture Journal, 19 (1). pp. 128-129. ISSN 1366-2724

Richards, John (2010) Review of Ettore Napione, Le Arche Scaligere di Verona, (Allemandi 2009). Church Monuments, 25 . ISSN 0268-7518 (In Press)

2007

Richards, J. (2007) Fouquet and the Trecento. Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 70 . pp. 449-472. ISSN 0044-2992

Richards, J. (2007) Petrarch and the Iconography of the Reggia Carrarese in Padua: The Mask of Virtue. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0773452367

2006

Richards, J. (2006) Sir Oliver de Ingham (d.1344) and the foundation of the Trinitarian priory at Ingham, Norfolk. Church Monuments, XXI . ISSN 0268-7518

This list was generated on Fri May 25 23:13:15 2012 BST.

 

I welcome applications from PhD students in the areas of early Renaissance visual culture and historiography and late Gothic art.

  • Maris Armfield: 'Art and Patronage In Ulm, 1427-1530'
  • Mingyuan Hu: ‘From Shanghai to Paris and Back Again: Fou Lei’s Intellectual Development as an Art Critic.’
  • Perla Innocenti: 'Preserving Computer-Generated Imagery: Art Theory, Methods and Experimental Applications'
  • Daniel Keenan: 'Kultur and Acculturation: Erwin Panofsky and the Americanisation of Kunstwissenschaft'.
  • Elisabetta Toreno: ‘Semiotics of Politics and Psychology in 15th- and 16th-Century European Portraiture.’

Second supervisor:

  • Emily Jane Anderson: 'Vitale da Bologna and his Followers: The Eastern European Vitaleschi'
  • Anastasia Kanellopoulou: 'The Special Relations Between the Byzantine and the North: Italian Painting in 1300'
  • Rachel Stuart: ‘Rosslyn Chapel: Imagination and Sanctity in Medieval Scotland.’
  • Monika Winiarczyk: 'Why is Synagoga a Woman?: Using contemporary notions of gender to create the medieval Jew.'

 

  • Renaissance courses at Level 1
  • Early Christian component at Level 2
  • Junior Honours course on Dürer and aspects of the Northern Renaissance.
  • Senior Honours course on Humanism and its impact on Italian art between c.1370 and 1440.
  • Renaissance art sections of MLitt in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

 

Administration

External Responsibilities

  • External Examiner for the Department of History of Art, University of Aberdeen
  • External Moderator, MLitt Programme, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
  • External Examiner for History of Art, University of Bristol