Richard G. Mann Explained

Richard Mann
Birth Name:	Richard George Mann
Discipline:	Art history
Sub Discipline:	Spanish art
Workplaces:	San Francisco State University
Education:	Kalamazoo College (BA) University of Minnesota (MA) New York University (PhD)

Richard George Mann (born 1949) is an American academic who is professor emeritus^[1] of art at San Francisco State University. He is a specialist in the art of Spain.

Early life and education

Mann was born in 1949. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College in 1972, a Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1974, and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1982.^[2]

Career

Mann is a professor emeritus of art at San Francisco State University. He is a specialist in Spanish art. In 1986, he produced El Greco and his patrons: Three major projects, the first volume in the Cambridge Studies in the History of Art, in which he investigated three of El Greco's six major projects and the patrons responsible for them.^[3]

With Jonathan Brown he prepared the volume on Spanish paintings of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries in the National Gallery of Art in their systematic catalogue series.^{[4] [5]}

Selected publications

• El Greco and his patrons: Three major projects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986.^[3]
• Spanish paintings of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990. (With Jonathan Brown) (Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue)^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://bulletin.sfsu.edu/faculty/emeritus-emerita/
2. http://www.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/previous_bulletins/1213/facultym.htm#facultym Faculty Directory (M - Z).
3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2862535 "Review: El Greco and his Patrons: Three Major Projects by Richard G. Mann"
4. http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/publications/pdf-library/spanish-paintings-of-the-fifteenth-through-nineteenth-centuries.html Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2541742 "Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries by Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann"