Pamela Askew Explained

Pamela Askew
Birth Date:	February 2, 1925
Birth Place:	Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Death Place:	Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Alma Mater:	Vassar College Courtauld Institute of Art
Main Interests:	Art history
Major Works:	Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' (Princeton, 1990)
Awards:	ACLS Fellowship (1965)^[1] CAA Distinguished Teaching Award for Art History (1988)^[2]

Pamela Askew (February 2, 1925 – June 24, 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 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.

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

Books

• Book: Askew. Pamela. Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin. 1990. Princeton University Press. Princeton New Jersey. 978-0691039831. registration. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}
• Book: Askew. Pamela. Claude Lorrain 1600–1682: a symposium.. 1984. National Gallery of Art. Washington.
• Book: Askew, Pamela. 1953. Domenico Fetti. University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art). London, UK.

Scholarly articles

• Askew. Pamela. Ferdinando Gonzaga's Patronage of the Pictorial Arts: The Villa Favorita. The Art Bulletin. June 1978. 60. 2. 274–96. 10.2307/3049783. 3049783.
• Askew. Pamela. Fetti's 'Portrait of an Actor' Reconsidered. The Burlington Magazine. February 1978. 120. 899. 59–65. 879098.
• Askew. Pamela. The Angelic Consolation of St. Francis of Assisi in Post-Tridentine Italian Painting. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 1969. 32. 280–306. 10.2307/750615. 750615.
• Askew. Pamela. Fetti's 'Martyrdom' at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The Burlington Magazine. June 1961. 103. 699. 245–252. 873330.
• Askew. Pamela. The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti. The Art Bulletin. 43. 1. March 1961. 21–45. College Art Association. 3047929. 10.2307/3047929.

Notes and References

1. ACLS Fellowships. Art Journal. Spring 1965. 24. 3. 243. 774700.
2. Rubinstein. Ruth. Pamela Askew (1925–97). The Burlington Magazine. July 1998. 140. 114. 478. 887937.
3. News: Editorial. Miss Askew bride of T.J.O. Mosley. 3 September 2014. The New York Times. March 27, 1955.
4. Moir. Alfred. Alfred Moir. Caravaggio's "Death of the Virgin" by Pamela Askew. The Catholic Historical Review. October 1991. 77. 4. 697–698. 25023670.
5. Thomas. Troy. Caravaggio's "Death of the Virgin." by Pamela Askew. The Sixteenth Century Journal. Winter 1991. 22. 4. 812–813. 10.2307/2542414. 2542414.
6. Christiansen. Keith. Keith Christiansen (art historian). Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' by Pamela Askew. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. 1992. 55. 2. 297–302. 10.2307/1482619. 1482619.
7. Spear. Richard. Richard E. Spear. Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin. by Pamela Askew. Renaissance Quarterly. Spring 1992. 45. 1. 166–70. 10.2307/2862846. 2862846.