Pamela Askew
| Full name | Pamela Askew |
|---|---|
| Born |
1925 Poughkeepsie, New York |
| Died |
July 1997 (aged 71–72) Poughkeepsie, New York lymphoma |
| Alma mater |
Vassar College Courtauld Institute of Art |
Main interests | art history |
Major works | Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' (Princeton, 1990) |
Notable awards |
ACLS Fellowship (1965)[1] |
Pamela Askew (1925–1997) was an American art historian who wrote influential works on Domenico Fetti and Caravaggio.
Askew's father was Arthur McComb, Professor of baroque art at Vassar and Harvard Universities, 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 Institute of Fine Art in New York, 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 26 March 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]
Books
- Askew, Pamela (1990). Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin. Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691039836.[4][5][6][7]
- Askew, Pamela (1984). Claude Lorrain 1600–1682: a symposium. Washington: National Gallery of Art.
- Askew, Pamela (1953). Domenico Fetti. London: University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art).
Selected scholarly articles
- Askew, Pamela (June 1978). "Ferdinando Gonzaga's Patronage of the Pictorial Arts: The Villa Favorita". The Art Bulletin 60 (2): 274–296. doi:10.2307/3049783.
- Askew, Pamela (February 1978). "Fetti's 'Portrait of an Actor' Reconsidered". The Burlington Magazine 120 (899): 59–65.
- 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.
- Askew, Pamela (June 1961). "Fetti's 'Martyrdom' at the Wadsworth Atheneum". The Burlington Magazine 103 (699): 245–252.
- Askew, Pamela (March 1961). "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti". The Art Bulletin (College Art Association) 43 (1): 21–45. doi:10.2307/3047929. JSTOR 3047929.
References
- ↑ Editor (Spring 1965). "ACLS Fellowships". Art Journal 24 (3): 243. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rubinstein, Ruth (July 1998). "Pamela Askew (1925–97)". The Burlington Magazine 140 (114): 478. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Editorial (March 27, 1955). "Miss Askew bride of T.J.O. Mosley". 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. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Christiansen, Keith (1992). "Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' by Pamela Askew". Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 55 (2): 297–302. doi:10.2307/1482619.
- ↑ Spear, Richard (Spring 1992). "Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin. by Pamela Askew". Renaissance Quarterly 45 (1): 166–170. doi:10.2307/2862846.