Pamela Askew (February 2, 1925 – June 24, 1997) was an American art historian who wrote influential works on Domenico Fetti and Caravaggio.
Pamela Askew | |
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| Born | February 2, 1925 Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 24, 1997 (aged 72) Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. |
| Awards | ACLS Fellowship (1965)[1] CAA Distinguished Teaching Award for Art History (1988)[2] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Vassar College Courtauld Institute of Art |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Art history |
| Notable works | Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' (Princeton, 1990) |
Askew's father was Arthur McComb, Professor of baroque art at Vassar College and Harvard University, and author of the influential Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works (1928). She grew up in New York City with her mother, Constance, and step-father, R. Kirk Askew Jr., a Park Avenue art dealer.[3]
She did undergraduate studies at Vassar College, followed by an MA in Art History at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, with a thesis on Perino del Vaga. She took her Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 1954, under Johannes Wilde with work on Domenico Fetti.[2]
On March 26, 1955, she married Timothy John Oswald Mosley, an Englishman educated at Eton College, who had served in the Coldstream Guards.[3] She returned to teach at Vassar, becoming a full professor in 1969. She died of lymphoma in 1997.[2]
Selected works
editBooks
edit- Askew, Pamela (1990). Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin. Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691039831.[4][5][6][7]
- Askew, Pamela (1984). Claude Lorrain 1600–1682: a symposium. Washington: National Gallery of Art.
- Askew, Pamela (1953). Domenico Fetti. London, UK: University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art).
Scholarly articles
edit- Askew, Pamela (June 1978). "Ferdinando Gonzaga's Patronage of the Pictorial Arts: The Villa Favorita". The Art Bulletin. 60 (2): 274–96. doi:10.2307/3049783. JSTOR 3049783.
- Askew, Pamela (February 1978). "Fetti's 'Portrait of an Actor' Reconsidered". The Burlington Magazine. 120 (899): 59–65. JSTOR 879098.
- Askew, Pamela (1969). "The Angelic Consolation of St. Francis of Assisi in Post-Tridentine Italian Painting". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 32: 280–306. doi:10.2307/750615. JSTOR 750615.
- Askew, Pamela (June 1961). "Fetti's 'Martyrdom' at the Wadsworth Atheneum". The Burlington Magazine. 103 (699): 245–252. JSTOR 873330.
- Askew, Pamela (March 1961). "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti". The Art Bulletin. 43 (1). College Art Association: 21–45. doi:10.2307/3047929. JSTOR 3047929.
References
edit- ^ "ACLS Fellowships". Art Journal. 24 (3): 243. Spring 1965. JSTOR 774700.
- ^ a b c Rubinstein, Ruth (July 1998). "Pamela Askew (1925–97)". The Burlington Magazine. 140 (114): 478. JSTOR 887937.
- ^ a b Editorial (27 March 1955). "Miss Askew bride of T.J.O. Mosley" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ Moir, Alfred (October 1991). "Caravaggio's "Death of the Virgin" by Pamela Askew". The Catholic Historical Review. 77 (4): 697–698. JSTOR 25023670.
- ^ Thomas, Troy (Winter 1991). "Caravaggio's "Death of the Virgin." by Pamela Askew". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 22 (4): 812–813. doi:10.2307/2542414. JSTOR 2542414.
- ^ Christiansen, Keith (1992). "Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' by Pamela Askew". Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. 55 (2): 297–302. doi:10.2307/1482619. JSTOR 1482619.
- ^ Spear, Richard (Spring 1992). "Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin. by Pamela Askew". Renaissance Quarterly. 45 (1): 166–70. doi:10.2307/2862846. JSTOR 2862846.