Joan Evans (art historian)

Dame Joan Evans, DBE (1893–1977) was a British historian of French and English mediaeval art.

Born at Nash Mills, Apsley, Hertfordshire, she was the daughter of antiquarian and businessman John Evans and his third wife, Maria Millington Lathbury (1856–1944). In 1950, her book Cluniac Art of the Romanesque Period, which concerned art and sculptures made by the monks of the abbey at Cluny in eastern France, was published by Cambridge University Press.

She was half-sister to Arthur Evans, excavator of Knossos and discoverer of Minoan civilization. Evans once said "The development of feudalism is reflected on the development of the castle."

External links

• Dictionary of Art Historians
• Biodata

Bibliography

• English Jewellery from the Fifth Century A.D. to 1800. London, Methuen & Co., 1921;
• Life in Medieval France. Oxford University Press. 1925;
• Pattern, a Study of Ornament in Western Europe from 1180 to 1900. 2 vols. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1931;
• The Romanesque Architecture of the Order of Cluny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938;
• Chateaubriand. a Biography. Macmillan. 1939;
• Taste and Temperament. A Brief Study of Psychological Types in their relation to the Visual Arts. Jonathan Cape. 1939;
• The Pusuit of Happiness. The Story of Madame de Sérilly 1762-1799. Longmans, Green and Co. 1946;
• The Oxford History of English Art: 1307-1461. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949;
• Art in Mediaeval France, 987-1498. London: Oxford University Press, 1948;
• Cluniac Art of the Romanesque Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950;
• Dress in Mediaeval France. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952;
• A History of Jewellery 1100-1870 Faber & Faber 1953;
• The Endless Web. John Dickinson & Co. Ltd. 1804-1954. Jonathan Cape. 1955;
• Ruskin, John. Diaries. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956-59;
• The Lamp of Beauty. Writings on Art by John Ruskin. Selected and edited by Joan Evans. Phaidon Oxford 1959;
• Prelude & Fugue. An Autobiography. London. Museum Press Ltd 1964;
• The Conways: a History of Three Generations. London: Museum Press, 1966