Catherine Whistler Explained

Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of European Art at the University of Oxford.^{[1] [2] [3]}

In 2018, Whistler was awarded the British Academy Medal for her book Venice and Drawing, 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collection; the Medal is awarded "for landmark academic achievement in any of the humanities and social science disciplines supported by the Academy".^{[4] [5]}

Selected works

• Book: Whistler . Catherine . Paolo Uccello's The hunt in the forest . 2010 . Ashmolean Museum . Oxford . 978-1854442482.
• Book: Whiteley . Jon . Whistler . Catherine . Master Drawings: Michelangelo to Moore . 2013 . Ashmolean Museum . Oxford . 978-1854442789.
• Book: Whistler . Catherine . Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto . 2015 . Ashmolean Museum . Oxford . 978-1854442994.
• Book: Whistler . Catherine . Venice & drawing, 1500-1800: theory, practice and collecting . 2017 . Yale University Press . New Haven, CT . 978-0300187731.
• Book: Whistler . Catherine . Raphael: the drawings . 2017 . Ashmolean Museum . Oxford . 978-1910807156.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Catherine Whistler . St John's College . University of Oxford . 20 October 2018.
2. Web site: CATHERINE WHISTLER . Ashmolean Museum . 20 October 2018 . en.
3. Recognition of Distinction 2017 . Oxford University Gazette . 28 September 2017 . 148 . 5179 . 20 October 2018 . University of Oxford.
4. Web site: Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals . The British Academy . 20 October 2018 . 20 August 2018.
5. Web site: Professor Catherine Whistler awarded British Academy Medal . St John's College . University of Oxford . 20 October 2018 . 21 August 2018.