Clovis Whitfield
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Clovis Whitfield is an art historian
and art dealer
based in London
, where he runs Whitfield Fine Art
. He is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers
.
As well as being the author of a number of books on art history, in recent years he has identified several "lost" works by Baroque
and Renaissance
painters.
, Cambridge and then the Courtauld Institute of Art
, London. He was later a visiting Professor at Indiana University
, 1967/1968.
In the course of his career, Whitfield has organized art exhibitions and lectured at important museums around the world, including the Royal Academy
, London
and the Capitoline Museums
Rome
.
Whitfield has published on Baroque Art extensively since 1971, notably discovering Temps Calme by Nicolas Poussin
in The Burlington Magazine
in 1977 and organising and writing the catalogue of Painting in Naples 1606 – 1705, Caravaggio to Giordano held at the Royal Academy
in 1982.
He is currently writing on Caravaggio
and working on a catalogue raisonné of Antonio Marziale Carracci
Painting in Florence, Royal Academy, London, 1979.
Painting in Naples, Caravaggio to Giordano, Royal Academy
, London
, 1982; National Gallery
, Washington, D.C.
, 1983; Grand Palais
, Paris
, 1983; Palazzo Reale
, Turin, 1983.
Classicismo e Natura: La Lezione di Domenichino Rome, Gallerie Capitoline, Nov 1996 - Feb. 1997 (jointly with Sir Denis Mahon)
“Cardinal Del Monte & Caravaggio” in Caravaggio, exh. cat., New York 2007, p.37-43;
“Caravaggio and a New Technique” in Caravaggio, exh. cat., New York 2007, p.23-36;
“Caravaggio’s Shepherd Corydon” Paragone, LVIII, n.73, May 2007, p.55-68;
"Prospero Orsi, interprète du Caravage" Revue de l' Art 2007-1, No. 155, pp. 9–20
“Landscape paintings and drawings by Antonio Carracci” Paragone. November 2006 pp. 3–20
Caravaggio, exh. cat., Düsseldorf Kunsthalle 2006, cat. 7,11 & 33;
“Landscapes by Francesco Cozza” Apollo Magazine, July 2005;
“A name for a ridiculous man – Rinaldo Coradini by the Carracci” Festrift for Dr. Alfred Bader 2004;
“Portraiture: From the ‘Simple Portrait’ to the ‘Resemblance Parlante” The Genius of Rome 1592 – 1623, exh. cat. London, Royal Academy, 2001 pp.140–171;
Francesco Brizio; Prospetti e paesaggi, Atti dell’ Accademia Clementina, Bologna 1998;
“Antonio Carracci” Studi di storia dell’arte in onore di Denis Mahon, Electa, Milano, 2000, pp.132–152;
Classicismo e Natura; La Lezione di Domenichino, exh. cat. ed. Sir Denis Mahon & C. Whitfield, Rome, Gallerie Capitoline 1996/97 (article on ‘Paesi dal natural rapportati’ and most of the catalogue entries);
Domenichino exhibition Catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Venezia, 1996 Catalogue entry on G.B. Viola’s Flight into Egypt p. 536/37;
A propos des paysages du Poussin, in Colloque Poussin (Paris, Louvre, October 1994) 1996, Vol I, pp. 245–67;
“Les Paysages du Dominiquin et de Viola”, in Monuments et Mémoires, Fondation E. Piot, vol.69, p.61-127, 1988;
“The Landscapes of Agostino Carracci, Reflections on his role in the Carracci School”, in Les Carrache et les décors profanes, Actes du Colloque organisé par l’Ecole française de Rome, (1986), p. 73-95, 1988;
“Claude and a Bolognese Revival”, Studies in the History of Art, Washington DC., vol.14, p. 83-91, 1984;
“La décoration du Palazzetto” in Le Palais Farnèse, Ecole française de Rome, 1983;
“A Parmigianino Discovery”, The Burlington Magazine
, CXXV, 950, p.276-280, May 1982;
Painting in Naples 1606 – 1705, Caravaggio to Giordano, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1982;
“Poussin Problems”, The Burlington Magazine
, CXXII, 933, p.838-39, Dec. 1980;
“Early Landscapes by Annibale Carracci”, in Pantheon, XXXVIII, p.50-58, Jan-March 1980;
“Poussin’s Early Landscapes”, The Burlington Magazine
, CXXI, 910, p.10-19, Jan. 1979;
“Nicolas Poussin’s ‘Orage’ and ‘Temps Calme’” The Burlington Magazine
, CXIX, 886, p.4-12, Jan. 1977;
“A Programme for ‘Erminia and the Shepherds’ by G.B, Agucchi” Storia dell’Arte, no.19, 1973;
“Révélations sur une tentation d’Eve”, (Baldung Grien) in Connaissance des Arts, juin 1971, p.72-81 [edit];
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
and art dealer
Art sale
An art auction is the sale of art works, in most cases in an auction house.In England this dates from the latter part of the 17th century, when in most cases the names of the auctioneers were suppressed...
based in London
London
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, where he runs Whitfield Fine Art
Whitfield Fine Art
The Whitfield Fine Art Gallery is an art gallery in Mayfair, London, owned and founded by Clovis Whitfield in 1979. The gallery specialises in Italian Old Master paintings.-History:...
. He is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers
Society of London Art Dealers
The Society of London Art Dealers is an organization founded in 1932 for the promotion of dealers of fine art and antiquities in London. It is a founder member of the British Art Market Federation and a member of the Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art ....
.
As well as being the author of a number of books on art history, in recent years he has identified several "lost" works by Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
and Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
painters.
Career as Art Historian
Educated at Corpus Christi CollegeCorpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
, Cambridge and then the Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...
, London. He was later a visiting Professor at Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
, 1967/1968.
In the course of his career, Whitfield has organized art exhibitions and lectured at important museums around the world, including the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and the Capitoline Museums
Capitoline Museums
The Capitoline Museums are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over...
Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
.
Whitfield has published on Baroque Art extensively since 1971, notably discovering Temps Calme by Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...
in The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine is a monthly academic journal that covers the fine and decorative arts. It is the longest running art journal in the English language and it is a charitable organisation since 1986. It was established in 1903 by a group of art historians and connoisseurs which included Roger...
in 1977 and organising and writing the catalogue of Painting in Naples 1606 – 1705, Caravaggio to Giordano held at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
in 1982.
He is currently writing on Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
and working on a catalogue raisonné of Antonio Marziale Carracci
Antonio Marziale Carracci
Antonio Marziale Carracci was an Italian painter. He was the natural son of Agostino Carracci.-Life:Carracci was born in the parish of Sta Lucia in Venice, probably in 1583, the product of an affair with a courtesan called Isabella, occurring on his father first visit to Venice...
Exhibitions Organised
England and the Seicento, Agnew's, 1973, (Bolognese painting in England).Painting in Florence, Royal Academy, London, 1979.
Painting in Naples, Caravaggio to Giordano, Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, 1982; National Gallery
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, 1983; Grand Palais
Grand Palais
This article contains material abridged and translated from the French and Spanish Wikipedia.The Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, commonly known as the Grand Palais , is a large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France...
, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 1983; Palazzo Reale
Royal Palace of Turin
Royal Palace of Turin or Palazzo Reale, is a palace in Turin, northern Italy. It was the royal palace of the House of Savoy. It was modernised greatly by the French born Madama Reale Christine Marie of France in the seventeenth century. The palace was worked on by Filippo Juvarra...
, Turin, 1983.
Classicismo e Natura: La Lezione di Domenichino Rome, Gallerie Capitoline, Nov 1996 - Feb. 1997 (jointly with Sir Denis Mahon)
Publications
“The Camerino of Cardinal del Monte” Paragone, LIX, n.77, 2008, pp. 3–38“Cardinal Del Monte & Caravaggio” in Caravaggio, exh. cat., New York 2007, p.37-43;
“Caravaggio and a New Technique” in Caravaggio, exh. cat., New York 2007, p.23-36;
“Caravaggio’s Shepherd Corydon” Paragone, LVIII, n.73, May 2007, p.55-68;
"Prospero Orsi, interprète du Caravage" Revue de l' Art 2007-1, No. 155, pp. 9–20
“Landscape paintings and drawings by Antonio Carracci” Paragone. November 2006 pp. 3–20
Caravaggio, exh. cat., Düsseldorf Kunsthalle 2006, cat. 7,11 & 33;
“Landscapes by Francesco Cozza” Apollo Magazine, July 2005;
“A name for a ridiculous man – Rinaldo Coradini by the Carracci” Festrift for Dr. Alfred Bader 2004;
“Portraiture: From the ‘Simple Portrait’ to the ‘Resemblance Parlante” The Genius of Rome 1592 – 1623, exh. cat. London, Royal Academy, 2001 pp.140–171;
Francesco Brizio; Prospetti e paesaggi, Atti dell’ Accademia Clementina, Bologna 1998;
“Antonio Carracci” Studi di storia dell’arte in onore di Denis Mahon, Electa, Milano, 2000, pp.132–152;
Classicismo e Natura; La Lezione di Domenichino, exh. cat. ed. Sir Denis Mahon & C. Whitfield, Rome, Gallerie Capitoline 1996/97 (article on ‘Paesi dal natural rapportati’ and most of the catalogue entries);
Domenichino exhibition Catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Venezia, 1996 Catalogue entry on G.B. Viola’s Flight into Egypt p. 536/37;
A propos des paysages du Poussin, in Colloque Poussin (Paris, Louvre, October 1994) 1996, Vol I, pp. 245–67;
“Les Paysages du Dominiquin et de Viola”, in Monuments et Mémoires, Fondation E. Piot, vol.69, p.61-127, 1988;
“The Landscapes of Agostino Carracci, Reflections on his role in the Carracci School”, in Les Carrache et les décors profanes, Actes du Colloque organisé par l’Ecole française de Rome, (1986), p. 73-95, 1988;
“Claude and a Bolognese Revival”, Studies in the History of Art, Washington DC., vol.14, p. 83-91, 1984;
“La décoration du Palazzetto” in Le Palais Farnèse, Ecole française de Rome, 1983;
“A Parmigianino Discovery”, The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine is a monthly academic journal that covers the fine and decorative arts. It is the longest running art journal in the English language and it is a charitable organisation since 1986. It was established in 1903 by a group of art historians and connoisseurs which included Roger...
, CXXV, 950, p.276-280, May 1982;
Painting in Naples 1606 – 1705, Caravaggio to Giordano, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1982;
“Poussin Problems”, The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine is a monthly academic journal that covers the fine and decorative arts. It is the longest running art journal in the English language and it is a charitable organisation since 1986. It was established in 1903 by a group of art historians and connoisseurs which included Roger...
, CXXII, 933, p.838-39, Dec. 1980;
“Early Landscapes by Annibale Carracci”, in Pantheon, XXXVIII, p.50-58, Jan-March 1980;
“Poussin’s Early Landscapes”, The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine is a monthly academic journal that covers the fine and decorative arts. It is the longest running art journal in the English language and it is a charitable organisation since 1986. It was established in 1903 by a group of art historians and connoisseurs which included Roger...
, CXXI, 910, p.10-19, Jan. 1979;
“Nicolas Poussin’s ‘Orage’ and ‘Temps Calme’” The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine is a monthly academic journal that covers the fine and decorative arts. It is the longest running art journal in the English language and it is a charitable organisation since 1986. It was established in 1903 by a group of art historians and connoisseurs which included Roger...
, CXIX, 886, p.4-12, Jan. 1977;
“A Programme for ‘Erminia and the Shepherds’ by G.B, Agucchi” Storia dell’Arte, no.19, 1973;
“Révélations sur une tentation d’Eve”, (Baldung Grien) in Connaissance des Arts, juin 1971, p.72-81 [edit];