Paul Joannides

Paul Joannides is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge. His main interests lie in the painting, sculpture, drawing and, to a lesser extent, architecture of the Italian Renaissance. He has published widely on such artists as Masaccio, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian and, to a lesser extent, on other figures such as Fra Angelico, Botticelli, and Leonardo. He has also written on French late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century painting. His principal...See more

Paul Joannides is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge. His main interests lie in the painting, sculpture, drawing and, to a lesser extent, architecture of the Italian Renaissance. He has published widely on such artists as Masaccio, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian and, to a lesser extent, on other figures such as Fra Angelico, Botticelli, and Leonardo. He has also written on French late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century painting. His principal publications are: The Drawings of Raphael (London 1983); Masaccio and Masolino (London 1993); Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genius (New Haven 2001); Michel-Ange, Ecole, Copistes, Inventaire des Dessins Italiens (Paris 2003); Drawings by Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum (Cambridge 2007.) His exhibition catalogues include: Michelangelo and His Influence, an exhibition of 68 drawings for the Royal Collection, shown in United States and the United Kingdom between 1996 and 1998; Raphael and His Age: Drawings from the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, an exhibition of 57 drawings shown in the United States and France in 2002-2003, and Late Raphael, co-curated with Professor Tom Henry, which was shown at the Prado and the Louvre in 2012-2013. See less