Dr John Richards
- Senior Lecturer in History of Art (History of Art)
telephone:
01413302000ext7307
email:
John.Richards@glasgow.ac.uk
R401 Level 4, History of Art, 8 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
Research interests
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.
- Stanley Spencer – Critical History in preparation.
- Edward Hyams Research Network.
Grants
- Principal Investigator, ECLAP - European Collected Library of Artistic Performance
- Co-principal Investigator, MeLA - European Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migration
Supervision
I welcome applications from PhD students in the areas of early Renaissance visual culture and historiography and late Gothic art.
- King, Rose
Women in Venetian Renaissance Painting from Giorgione to Tintoretto: Gender, Archetypes, Tradition and Style - Pinna, Daniele
Venetian Art and Counter-Reformation
Teaching
- 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
- Parts of core course and elective options of History of Art M.Litt programme: The Renaissance in Northern Europe and Italy.
- Section of M.Litt core course Research Methods in Practice
Additional information
Administration
- Deputy Director, Art History Research
- Exams Co-convenor
- SCCA School Management Group
- Principal Investigator, European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP)
- Co-principal Investigator, MeLA - European Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migration
- Convenor, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference and Bookfair, 2010 (2008-2010)
- Member, Crichton Board of Studies
- Member, Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Board
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
Affiliation
- Member of Scientific Committee of "MeVe, Medioevo Veneto e Medioevo Europeo. Identità e Alterità", (University of Padua & Italian Education Ministry).
Conferences
On organisation committee of Society for Renaissance Studies biennial conference, to be hosted by History of Art in Glasgow, July 2016.
Co-convenor of annual Scottish Trecento Conference.