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CURRICULUM VITAE

DR TOM F. K. HENRY

    e-mail: th@casanovaumbria.eu

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Jan 2013 - Professor of History of Art, University of Kent (part time)

CURRENT FREELANCE PROJECTS

Developing an archival website of documents relating to Signorelli.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

Jan 2005-Sept 2006 Reader in the History of Italian Renaissance Art, Oxford Brookes University.

Sept 2000-Jan 2005 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, Oxford Brookes University.

Oct 1997-Sept 2000 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art.

Oct 1996-Sept 1997 One year, half-time, replacement teaching contract at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Sept 1991-Feb 1993 National Gallery, London (Co-author, The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue, published (book and CD-Rom) 1995).

Jan-Sept 1991  Helped Denis Mahon with the Guercino exhibitions in Bologna and Washington.

Aug ‘89-Jan 1991 National Gallery, London (Art Historian to the Micro Gallery; also published on CD-Rom as the Art Gallery).

EDUCATION

Oct ‘92-July ’96 Courtauld Institute, London; Ph.D. ‘The Career of Luca Signorelli in the 1490s’.

Oct ‘87-July ‘89     Courtauld Institute, London; M.A. History of Art (Distinction in both parts I [Exam] and II [Thesis: ‘Guillaume de Marcillat at the Cathedral, Arezzo’]).

Oct ‘86-June ‘87    Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Oct ‘83-June ’86 Balliol College, Oxford; B.A. Modern History (First Class Honours).

March-June ’83 Davidson College, North Carolina, U.S.A.

1971-1982  Colet Court and St Paul’s School, London.

PUBLICATIONS (by date, in descending order*)

2012

‘The Life and Art of Luca Signorelli’, Yale UP 2012.  Monograph.

2010

‘A confraternity banner from Sansepolcro in the Victoria and Albert Museum’, The Burlington Magazine, CLII (2010), p. 744 (with D. Cooper).

‘One picture, ten names, and a proposal for the early career of Luca Signorelli’, 1492. Rivista della Fondazione Piero della Francesca, II (2010), pp. 21-40.

2009

Review of the Bellini exhibition in Rome in Apollo (January 2009). ISSN 0003 6536

‘Raffaello e Signorelli’ in ed. L. Mochi Onori, Raffaello, Giovanni Santi e Urbino, exh. cat., Urbino (Galleria Nazionale), 2009, pp. 78-83 (and cats. 6, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31).

2008

‘magister Lucas de Cortona, famosissimus pictor in tota Italia … fecisse etiam multas pulcherrimas picturas in diversis civitatibus et presertim Senis’ in L’ultimo secolo della repubblica di Siena: arti cultura e società, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi ((Siena 28-30 sett. 2003 e 16-8 sett. 2004), ed. M. Ascheri, G. Mazzoni and F. Nevola, Siena (Accademia Senese degli Intronati) 2008, pp. 355-65.

‘The patrons, original location and restoration history of Luca Signorelli’s Circumcision in the National Gallery, London’, Studi di Storia dell’Arte, 19 (2008), pp. 35-52.

‘Le prime opere di Luca Signorelli a Cortona ed Arezzo’, in ed. L. Fornasari, G. Gentilini & A. Giannotti, Arte in Terra d’Arezzo: il Quattrocento, Florence, 2008, pp. 171-183.

‘La cultura artistica a Roma fra 1510 e 1524’, in Correggio, exh. cat., Parma, (Galleria Nazionale), 2008, pp. 135-9.

‘Perugia 1502’, in ed. V. Garibaldi and F.F. Mancini, Pintoricchio, exh. cat., Perugia (Galleria Nazionale) and Spello, 2008, pp. 121-129 (and cats. 46, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 70, D22, D23, D24) (English and Italian versions).

Entry on Raphael’s Cardinal in 100 Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2008.

Review of the Mantegna exhibition in Paris in Apollo (December 2008). ISSN 0003 6536

2007

Reviews of the Piero della Francesca and Renaissance Siena exhibitions in Apollo (April & November 2007). ISSN 0003 6536

2006

‘Raphael’s patrons in Città di Castello’ / ‘I committenti di Raffaello a Città di Castello’, in ed. T. Henry & F.F. Mancini, Gli esordi di Raffaello tra Urbino, Città di Castello e Perugia, exh. cat., Città di Castello (Pinacoteca), 2006, pp. 25-69 (and cats. 1-3, pp. 120-129). ISBN 88-500-0296-3

‘Friendship and Franciscanism: Luca Signorelli, Umbertide and the pala di Santa Croce’ / ‘Amicizia e francescanesimo: Luca Signorelli, Umbertide e la pala di Santa Croce’ in ed. T. Henry, Amicizia e francescanesimo: Luca Signorelli, Umbertide e la pala di Santa Croce, exh. cat., Umbertide (Museo Civico), 2006. No ISBN.

‘John Shearman – Raphael in Early Modern Sources’, The Burlington Magazine CXLVIII (2006), pp. 696-698. ISSN 0007 6287

‘Nuove prospettive per Raffaello prima di Roma’, Accademia Raffaello. Atti e Studi, 1 (2006), pp. 89-110 (English text follows the Italian). No ISSN.

Entries on Raphael for the Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2006.

Review of the Marco Palmezzano exhibition in Apollo (March 2006). ISSN 0003 6536

Review of the Raphael exhibitions in Rome and New York in Apollo (September 2006). ISSN 0003 6536

2005

Review of ed. M. Hall ‘The Cambridge Companion to Raphael’ in Apollo (2005). ISSN 0003 6536

BIRDS website (live November 2005-September 2006)

2004

Raphael: from Urbino to Rome, co-authored and co-editted with H. Chapman and C. Plazzotta, London, 2004. ISBN 1 85709 999 paperback 525096 (ISBN  1 85709 994 hardback 525094)

‘Perugino e Signorelli’, in ed. L. Teza, Pietro Vannucci detto il Perugino. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studio, 25-28 ottobre 2000, Perugia, 2004, pp. 75-90. ISBN 88-89024-03-98

‘La formazione di Pietro Perugino’, in ed. V. Garibaldi and F.F. Mancini, Perugino. Il Divin Pittore, exh. cat., Perugia (Galleria Nazionale), 2004, pp. 73-9. ISBN 88-8215-683-4

‘Raphael’s Siege of Perugia’, The Burlington Magazine, CXLVI (2004). ISSN 0007 6287

‘Raphael and Siena’, Apollo, CLV, 2004, pp. 18-24. ISSN 0003 6536

2003

Letters to The Times and Sunday Times, 2003.

2002

‘Luca de ingegno et spirito pelegrino’, in ed. D. Gasparotto and S. Magnani, Matteo di Giovanni e la pala d’altare nel senese e nell’aretino 1450-1500. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Sansepolcro, 9-10 Ottobre 1998), Sansepolcro, 2002, pp. 175-83. ISBN 88-87187-64-9

‘Raphael’s altar-piece patrons in Città di Castello’, The Burlington Magazine, CXLIV (2002), pp. 268-78. ISSN 0007 6287

Luca Signorelli. The Complete Paintings, London, 2002 (catalogue raissoné of Signorelli’s work, with an introduction by L.B. Kanter). ISBN 0 500 09305 9 (UK edition), 88 17 86851 5 (Italian edition), 0 8478 2421 7 (US edition), 2 85025 792 3 (French edition)

2001

‘Reflections on Il Marcillat’s work in the Vatican Palace’ Apollo, CLII, no. 467, 2001, pp. 18-27. ISSN 0003 6536

‘Signorelli’s Virgin and Child: a gift to his daughter’, Metropolitan Museum Journal, 36, 2001, pp. 161-8.

Review of J. Meyer zur Capellen on Raphael in The Burlington Magazine. ISSN 0007 6287

2000

‘Cesare da Sesto and Baldino Baldini in the Vatican apartments of Julius II’, The Burlington Magazine, CXLII (2000), pp. 29-35. ISSN 0007 6287

‘Publishing Fra Paolo Novelli’s frescoes at Monteoliveto Maggiore’, in ed. M.G. Bernardini, S. Danesi Squarzina and C. Strinati, Studi di storia dell’arte in onore di Denis Mahon, Milan, 2000, pp. 165-76.

Review of Olson on The Renaissance Tondo in Apollo. ISSN 0003 6536

1999

‘Nuovi documenti su Giovanni Santi’, Giovanni Santi. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Urbino, Milan, 1999, pp. 223-6. ISBN 88 435 6825 6

‘An overlooked Signorelli’, The Burlington Magazine, CXLI (1999), pp. 475-7. ISSN 0007 6287

‘Unknown Signorelli’, National Gallery News, January 1999.

‘Signorelli in British Collections’, Courtauld Institute News, April 1999.

1998

Signorelli in British Collections, exh. cat., London (National Gallery), 1998 (and exhibition leaflet of same title). ISBN 1 85709 256 2

‘New documents for Signorelli’s ‘Annunciation’ at Volterra’, The Burlington Magazine, CXL (1998), pp. 474-8. ISSN 0007 6287

‘Signorelli in British Collections’, National Gallery News, November 1998.

Signorelli. Renaissance Master (Video to accompany Signorelli exhibition, 1998-9)

1997

‘Cartoons Restored to View’ [Exhibition Review], Renaissance Studies, 11.4 (1997), pp. 441-5. ISSN 0269 1213

1996

‘Berto di Giovanni at Montone’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVIII (1996), pp. 325-328. ISSN 0007 6287

‘I Cartoni’ in La Cappella Nova o di San Brizio nel Duomo di Orvieto, Milan, 1996, pp. 252-267. ISBN 88 17 24416 3

1995

The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue (with Christopher Baker), London, 1995. ISBN 1 85709 050 0 and CD-Rom of same title

‘Arezzo’s Sistine Ceiling: Guillaume de Marcillat and the frescoes in the Cathedral at Arezzo’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XXXIX.2/3 (1995), pp. 209-57.

‘Compiler’s choice: Moroni’s Portrait of a Man (Il Piede Ferito)’, National Gallery News, June 1995.

1994

‘The subject of Domenico Morone’s ‘Tournament’ panels in the National Gallery, London’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI (1994), pp. 21-22. ISSN 0007 6287

‘Centro e Periferia? Guillaume de Marcillat and the Modernisation of Taste in the Cathedral at Arezzo’, Artibus et Historiae, 29 [XV] (1994), pp. 55-83. ISBN 3 900731 48 9

‘Luca Signorelli’s Circumcision’, National Gallery News, January 1994.

1993

The Art Gallery, Microsoft, 1993 (CD-Rom with Christopher Baker).

‘Signorelli, Raphael and a ‘mysterious’ pricked drawing in Oxford’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXV (1993), pp. 612-619. ISSN 0007 6287

1991

Guercino in Britain - Paintings in British Collections (with Michael Helston), exh. cat., London (National Gallery), 1991. ISBN 0 947645 98 5

Catalogue of the Paintings belonging to the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London, 1991.

Il Guercino: Disegni (Catalogo provisorio), Bologna, 1991.

Italy by Moonlight, London (Accademia Italiana), 1991. Catalogue entries on Elsheimer, Lelio Orsi and François de Nomé.

The Drawings of Anthony Van Dyck, New York (Pierpont Morgan Library), 1991. ‘Life of Anthony van Dyck’, translated from G. P. Bellori, Le Vite de’ Pittori …, Rome, 1672. ISBN 87598 091 0

‘Guercino Drawings from Dutch Collections’, Burlington Magazine, CXXXIII (1991), pp. 475-6. ISSN 0007 6287

‘Mantegna’s Cult of Cybele’ [An Eye for Detail], National Gallery News, December 1991.

1990

‘Letter to the Editor’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXII (1990), pp. 571-2. ISSN 0007 6287

LONGTERM BOOK PROJECTS

After completion of my monograph on Luca Signorelli I plan to write on the subject of centre and periphery in Italian Renaissance art.

EXHIBITIONS

Co-curator, Late Raphael, Prado, Madrid (June-Sept 2012); Louvre, Paris (Oct 2012-Jan 2013).

Co-curator, Luca Signorelli, Galleria Nazionale, Perugia and various locations in Umbria (June-Sept 2012).

Co-Curator, Pintoricchio, Perugia and Spello (Dec 2007-June 2008).

Guest Curator, Amicizia e francescanesimo: Luca Signorelli, Umbertide e la pala di Santa Croce, Umbertide (July-Oct 2006)

Co-Curator, Gli esordi di Raffaello tra Urbino, Città di Castello e Perugia, Città di Castello (March-June 2006).

Co-Curator, Raphael: from Urbino to Rome, National Gallery, London (Oct 2004-Jan 2005).

Guest Curator, Signorelli in British Collections, National Gallery, London (Nov 1998-Feb 1999).

Comitati scientifici: Perugino 2004, Raffaello 2006, Signorelli 2006, Pintoricchio 2007-8, Raffaello 2009.

MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS

Appointed Socio Onorario of the Accademia Raffaello, Urbino, 2009.

Ahmanson Foundation Fellow, Villa I Tatti, Florence (July 2002-June 2003).

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art (Oct 1997-Sept 2000).

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS

‘One picture, ten names, and a proposal for the early career of Luca Signorelli’, Courtauld Institute, London, November 2009

‘Raphael before 1505: The Altarpieces of Citta di Castello’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 25 June 2006

‘Raphael and Signorelli’ Raphael in context, International Conference, National Gallery, London, 11-13 November 2004.

‘magister Lucas de Cortona, famosissimus pictor in tota Italia … fecisse etiam multas pulcherrimas picturas in diversis civitatibus et presertim Senis’ at Siena nel Rinascimento: l¹ultimo secolo della repubblica, Convegno Internazionale di Studi, 28-30 September 2003.

‘New perspectives on Raphael before Rome’, Raffaello – pluralità e unità, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, May 2002.

‘Perugino e Signorelli’, Convegno internazionale su Pietro Vannucci detto il Perugino, Perugia, October 2000.

‘Riflessioni su Marcillat a Roma’, Convegno di Studi su Guillaume de Marcillat. La vetrata rinascimentale e la ‘maniera moderna’ nell’aretino, Arezzo, May 1999.

‘Luca de ingegno et spirito pelegrino’, Signorelli, Raphael and the ‘other’ artists in the Stanze of Julius II (Part 1), Courtauld Institute of Art, 11-12 November 1998.

‘The ‘other’ artists in the Stanze of Julius II’, Signorelli, Raphael and the ‘other’ artists in the Stanze of Julius II (Part 2), National Gallery, London, 11-12 November 1998.

‘Luca Signorelli e il disegno delle sue pale d’altare’, Convegno di Studi su Matteo di Giovanni e il sviluppo della pala d’altare nel aretino e senese 1450-1500, Sansepolcro, October 1998.

‘I Cartoni’, Convegno di Studi sul restauro della Cappella Nuova, Orvieto, September 1996.

‘Berto di Giovanni a Montone: un nuovo affresco e alcuni documenti inediti’, Inaugurazione del Museo Comunale, Montone (PG), March 1995.

‘Nuovi documenti su Giovanni Santi’, Convegno di Studi su Giovanni Santi, Urbino, March 1995.

‘Guillaume de Marcillat and the modernisation of taste at the Cathedral, Arezzo’, Conference of the Association of Art Historians, Dublin, March 1990.

I co-convened and chaired the two day international conference on Signorelli, Raphael and other artists in the Stanze of Julius II, held at the Courtauld Institute and the National Gallery, London, 10-11.11.1998; and the Raphael symposium held at the National Gallery, London, 8-9.11.2002. I was co-convenor of the Raphael conference at the National Gallery in November 2004, and was part of the roundtable panel at Materiali e tecniche nella pittura murale del Quattrocento at Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, 2002.

INTERNATIONAL LECTURES

‘Raffaello a Città di Castello’, Pinacoteca, Città di Castello, April 2006

‘Scoperte su Raffaello alla mostra londinese’ (+Carol Plazzotta), Accademia Raffaello, Urbino, April 2006

‘The state of play in the Raphael Stanze’, Getty Center, Los Angeles, November 2000

‘The state of play in Raphael studies’, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, November 2000

‘Signorelli’s Virgin and Child: a gift to his daughter’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 1999

‘Signorelli and the End of the World’, National Gallery of Art, Washington, December 1999

‘Signorelli at Rocca Contrada’, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, April 1998

‘New light on Raphael in Città di Castello’, Getty Centre, Los Angeles and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, April 1998

U.K. LECTURES AND SEMINAR PAPERS

‘Raphael’s Journey’, National Gallery, London, November 2004

‘New perspectives on Raphael before Rome’, Italian Renaissance Seminar, Oxford, January 2002.

‘Seeing Signorelli’, National Gallery, London, November 2001.

‘Signorelli’s Virgin and Child: a gift to his daughter’, Renaissance Research Seminar, National Gallery, London, May 2001.

‘Who painted the Madonna and Child with Three Angels at Christ Church Picture Gallery’, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, May 2001.

‘Patterns of invention. The artist as iconographer’, British Academy Post-Doctoral Symposium, London, January 2000.

‘Signorelli and the End of the World’, National Gallery, London, December 1999.

‘Luca Signorelli in British Collections’, Signorelli Study Day, National Gallery, London, January 1999.

‘Signorelli: no longer the Caravaggio of his time’, National Gallery, London, November 1998.

‘Raphael in Città di Castello’, National Gallery, London, October 1998.

‘Domenico Gavari and the ‘Mond’ Crucifixion’, Renaissance Research Seminar, National Gallery, London, December 1997.

‘Raphael in Città di Castello’, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Renaissance Study Group, Courtauld Institute, London, December 1997.

‘Luca Signorelli’s working practice’, Renaissance Study Group, Courtauld Institute, London, June 1995.

‘Signorelli at Volterra’, Renaissance Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, February 1995.

‘Luca Signorelli’s work, workshop and working practice’, Oxford University, All Souls College, February 1994.

‘Raphael, Signorelli and a Mysterious Pricked Drawing at Oxford’, Oxford University, Department of Western Art, February 1993.

‘Pro Andrea Mantegna Pictore’, National Gallery (Sainsbury Wing Theatre), January 1992.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING (OXFORD BROOKES)

2000-1: M02501 (1^st year Introduction), M02510 (2^nd year Theme), M02580 (Paris Field Trip)

2001-2: M02501(1^st year Introduction), M02580 (Paris Field Trip), Raphael MA

2003-4: M02580 (Paris Field Trip), MA Forum

2004-5: U68024 (3^rd year Advanced Seminar), U68002 (Visual Analysis), P68062 (Raphael MA)

2005-6: U68020 (2^nd year Theme), U68002 (Visual Analysis), U68003, U68027 (Paris Field Trip)

UNIVERSITY TEACHING (COURTAULD)

1996-7: MA Intro (jointly), Italian Art in London (1^st yr Topic), Raphael (3^rd yr Special Subject)

1997-8:  Images and Institutions in Florence and Central Italy (2^nd year Period Course, jointly)

1998-9: Italian Art in London (1^st year Topic), Painting in Central Italy (2^nd year Period Course)

1999-2000: Survey lecture course on the Italian renaissance; MA Introductory course (jointly); MA Special Subject (jointly).

OTHER TEACHING

Courtauld Institute Summer School (July 1997; repeated July 1999) Course Tutor (Raphael and the High Renaissance).

John Hall Pre-University Course in Venice (February 1992; repeated February 1993) with lectures on ‘Giotto and Venetian Painting to 1450’, ‘Mantegna and Bellini’, ‘Giorgione and Venetian Painting c.1500’, ‘Titian’, ‘Tintoretto and Veronese’ and ‘Padua and its art’.

I have also taught for Birkbeck College (1996), the University of Reading (1999), the Fondazione Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro (2005, 2006), the Universities of Siena (2005) and Perugia (2005), and for Inscape Fine Art Tours (1998, 1999, 2004).

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION (OXFORD BROOKES)

Field Chair of the History of Art undergraduate programme 2004-6, departmental research coordinator 2004-6, MA admissions (History of Art), 2004-6; module leader; personal tutor; supervising MA and BA dissertations; BA dissertation coordinator 2001-6; undergraduate and postgraduate interviewing; examining 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd year BAs and MA dissertations; supervising and examining Ph.D.s.

EXTERNAL EXAMINING

Courtauld Institute (Age of Lorenzo MA, 2001); Warburg Institute (Ph.D., 2003).