Prof MA Michael, B.A, PhD, F.S.A

BA (University of East Anglia, Norwich), PhD (Westfield College, University of London), FSA

Prof. Michael serves concurrently as Honorary Fellow of the School of Culture and Creative Arts of the University of Glasgow.

Christie's Education | London
153 Great Titchfield Street
London W1W 5BD
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Prof Michael read History of Art and Architecture at the University of East Anglia and gained his Doctorate at Westfield College, University of London. He lectured at St. Andrews University before joining Christie’s Education in 1987. He has written widely on Renaissance and Medieval art including the Arezzo frescoes of Piero della Francesca, the iconography of the Apocalypse, and English illuminated manuscripts of the 13th and 14th century and on The Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, Scala, 2004.
His most recent book is Contexts of Medieval Art: Images, Objects and Ideas: Tributes to Nigel J. Morgan: edited with Julian Luxford (Harvey Miller 2010)

Research

Arts of the Middle Ages including: Illuminated Manuscripts, (especially in France and England), Stained Glass, Metalwork, Embroidery, Ivory, Panel and Wall Painting. Greek Art, Roman Art and Byzantine Art and their appropriation and survival in Islam and the West. He is currently working on a British Academy sponsored project : Opus Anglicanum, Digitisation, Conservation, Exhibition.

• Illuminated Manuscripts
• Stained Glass
• Panel Painting
• Metalwork
• Medieval embroidery
• Current research interests include investigation of the following:
• Hermeneutics of Style in the Middle Ages
• Opus Anglicanum
• Theory of Transnationality and Medieval Europe

Teaching

Prof. Michael teaches Method and Theory of the History of Art in an MLitt seminar and lectures on the Arts of Europe programmes at Christie’s Education in London. He has taught seminars in the past on English Illuminated Manuscripts, Stained Glass, ‘International Gothic Art’, and Byzantine Art.

Administration

• Executive Committee Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
• St Albans Cathedral Fabric Committee
• Joint Board of University of Glasgow and Christie’s Education

Publications

Books
Tributes to Nigel J. Morgan: Contexts of Medieval Art: Images, Objects and Ideas
edited with Julian Luxford (Harvey Miller 2010)

The Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, London, Scala, 2004

Images in Light: Stained Glass 1200-1550, Sam Fogg, London, 2002

The Apocalypse and the Shape of things to Come, Edited by Frances Carey, London, 1999; joint curator and author of catalogue entries on Illuminated Apocalypse Manuscripts.

Piero Della Francesca: Eglise d'Arezzo, Editions Assouline, Paris, 1995 and (in English) Thames and Hudson, London, 1996.

Denis de Caires - Recent Paintings and Prints, Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados, 1991.

Articles in Journals and Books since 2000
‘The Paintings in the Church of the Π α ν α γ ι α Χ ρ υ σ ο σ π η λ ι ω τ ι σ σ α at Kato Devtera [Nicosia]’, Bulletin of British Byzantine Studies, 27, 2001, 110-112.

‘Jean le Bon’ and ‘Richard II’ in Portraiture in the Western Tradition 1300-1939, edited by Martin Bailey, London, the Folio Society, 2003.

‘Matthew Paris, Brother William, and St. Marcella: comments on the added leaf of the Apocalyptic Man in British Library MS Cotton Nero D. I*’ in Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies XII, edited by Nigel Morgan, Donnington, 2004, 239-249.

‘Introduction’ Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass 1200-1550, London, 2004, pp. 5-13.

‘The birth of non-authorship; interpreting the Lindisfarne Gospels St. Matthew and the Codex Amiatinus Ezra’ in Pen in Hand, Medieval Scribal Portraits, Colophons and Tools, Edited by Michael Gullick, Walkern, 2007, 174-185

‘Towards a Hermeneutics of the Manuscript: the Physical and Metaphysical Journeys of Paris BNF, MS Fr 571’ in Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages, Edited by Pregrine Horden, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XV, Donington, 2007, 305-317

'Seeing-in: the Macclesfield Psalter’ in The Cambridge Illuminations Conference Papers, edited by Stella Panayotova, London and Turnhout, 2007, 114 -128
'Urban Production and the Universities’, in The Cambridge History of the Book, vol. 2, 1200-1400, edited by Rodney Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 168-196

‘Planning for style: a preliminary reading of the De Lisle Psalter Virgin and Child’ Lucy Feeman Sandler: a Festschrift, edited by Katherine Smith, New York, 2008
‘Re-Orienting the Westminster Retable’ in The Westminster Retable, ed. P. Binski and A. Massing, Cambridge, 2010

‘Transnationality the Wilton Diptych as Text’ in Tributes to Nigel Morgan, ed J. Luxford and M.A Michael, Harvey Miller, 2010.

Forthcoming

‘Vere hortus noster deliciarum est Anglia’: John of Thanet, the Madonna Master and a Fragment of English Medieval Embroidery, (British Archaeological Association Canterbury Conference Transactions 2010)

Conference Papers

2005 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, The Cambridge Illuminations: The Macclesfield Psalter

2007 St. Louis, Manuscripta Conference, Pope Pius II Memorial Library: The Luttrell Psalter

2009 BAA Canterbury Cathedral Conference: Vere hortus noster deliciarum est Anglia: John of Thanet, the Madonna Master and a Fragment of English Medieval Embroidery

2010 Re-orienting the Westminster Retable Association of Art Historians Conference 2010

Current Exhibitions

 

Nixi Cura

Course Director, Arts of China

MA (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), PhD in progress (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

Christie's Education | London
153 Great Titchfield Street
London W1W 5BD
ncura@christies.edu

Tel: +44 (0) 207 665 4350
Fax: +44 (0) 207 665 4380
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Nixi Cura read East Asian Studies at Yale University, then specialised in Chinese painting and Buddhist art, with a minor in Romanesque art, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her current research interests include Qing art, especially during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795), collecting and antiquarian practices in the  Qing, Republican and Manchukuo periods, and contemporary Chinese visual culture.

Research

• Qing dynasty (1644-1911) painting and material culture
• Qing bannerman and Manchu cultural history
• Qing archaeology and tomb practice
• Collecting and antiquarian practices during the Qing, Republican (1911-1949) and Manchukuo (1932-1945) periods
• Ceramics of the Republican period (1911-1949)
• Contemporary Chinese visual culture

 

Teaching

Arts of China (MLitt, PgDip and Certificate programmes)

 

Administration

• Course Director, Arts of China, Christie's Education London
• Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Glasgow
• Secretary, Arts of China Consortium

 

Select Publications

Cura, N. Forthcoming. ‘Seals as Artistic Practice in China’. 'Chinese Seals: Tradition and Innovation' (2012) conference proceedings, British Museum, London.

Cura, N. Forthcoming. 'Martial values in painting: Chinese bannerman painters at the Qing court'. Routledge edited volume on Chinese and Indian warfare, London.

Cura, N. 2012. On Prints and Multiples’, in Lisa Claypool (ed), China’s Imperial Modern: The Painter’s Craft, Edmonton.

Cura, N. 2003. 'A "cultural biography" of the Admonitions scroll: the Qianlong reign, 1735-1795' in S. McCausland (ed), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll: Ideals of Etiquette, Art & Empire from Early China, London.
Cura, N. 2003. 'High art, Luo art' in Luo Brothers: Welcome the World Famous Brand, Schenectady, NY.

Cura, N. (ed). 1996-present. Arts of China Consortium virtual library

 

Select Papers

Giuseppe Castiglione: Jesuit court painter to the Qing emperors, 2013. Asia House, London.

Finger painting as Qing contemporary art, 2012. In ‘A Connective History of Qing Art: Visuality, Images and Imaginaries’, University of Hong Kong.

Luo Zhenyu, Qing loyalism and art values, 2012. University of Zürich.

Soper and Chinese pictorial representation, 2011. In the panel 'Revisiting Alexander Soper', Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Honolulu (paper presenter and panel organizer).

Early 20th-century 'imperial' porcelain and ideals of empire, 2010. In the panel 'China and the West: The Reception of Chinese Art across Cultures from the 15th Century to the Present', Association of Art Historians, Glasgow.

Martial values in painting: Chinese bannerman painters at the Qing court, 2009. In 'War and Devastation in the Qing and Ottoman Empires', University of the Bosporus, Istanbul.

Nixi serves concurrently as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and co-founded the Arts of China Consortium.

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Lizzie Perrotte

Course Director, Modern and Contemporary Art

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; lperrotte@christies.com

Lizzie read History of Art at University College, London. She worked as a Higher Education Officer at the National Gallery and then worked for the Tate Gallery and at the Education Department at the Tate St Ives. Before coming to Christie’s Education in 1996, she also worked as Head of Education at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Teaching

Lizzie leads a seminar in Method and Theory as Course Director on the MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art-world Practice.

Publications

Articles:
‘The Primitive Within’, Jacob Epstein : Sculpture & Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1987
‘New Light on Epstein’s Early Career’, The Burlington Magazine, Dec 1988
‘Modern Old Masters: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, London 1991
‘Impressionism in the Making’, Apollo, August 1991

Catalogues:
‘The Primitive Within’, Jacob Epstein: Sculpture and Drawings (Exhibition Catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London)
Joumana Mourad (Exhibition Catalogue, Boukamel Contemporary Art, London)
Francis West (Exhibition Catalogue, Orleans House Gallery, London).

Other Media:
Video Production -
Manet: The Hero of Modern Life, (National Gallery, London)

Sound Guides:
The Berggruen Collection at the (National Gallery, London)
Gary Hume at the ICA in collaboration with Jamie Murray Jackson, (ICA, London)
John Currin (ICA, London)

Dr Richard Plant, F.S.A

Course Director, Arts of Europe

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; rplant@christies.com

Richard studied English Literature at Cambridge before going on to do his MA and then PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art specialising in English Romanesque Architecture and the Holy Roman Empire. He has taught at the Courtauld Institute, University College and Queen Mary College. His publications include articles on the Romanesque fabric of Carlisle Cathedral, architectural developments in the Empire north of the Alps, Winchester Cathedral and architecture in Normandy and England 1050-1200.

Listen to Richard's appearances on BBC Radio 4:

Church Spires
BBC Radio 4's Making History consulted Richard who explained that the church spire was more of a technological innovation of the French gothic than a cultural or spiritual introduction. Click here for more information.

Winchester Cathedral
Listen to Richard's comments on the background to the Norman Cathedral, how in 1070 a Norman Bishop replaced the Saxon one and the existing Saxon Cathedral was demolished to make way for a building that was to be the biggest in Europe for over 1,000 years. Click here for more information.

Research Interests

• European Architecture of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
• Urbanism in Medieval Europe
• Architectural iconography

Teaching

• Architecture of the ancient world
• Medieval Architecture, metalwork and painting
• Early Renaissance Architecture
• Cataloguing Skills
• Theory and Methodology

Administration

• Member of the committee of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
• Member of Council and Publicity Officer for the British Archaeological Association
• Co-organiser of the Conference 'Romanesque and the Past: Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe', to be held in London, April 2010

Publications

‘Romanesque and Early Gothic Coventry Cathedral’ British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, Medieval Art and Architecture in Leeds (2011)

‘Durham Cathedral’ in T. Ayers (ed), The History of British Art 600-1500, London, 2008

‘Gundulf’s Cathedral’ British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, Medieval Art and Architecture at Rochester Cathedral, Leeds, 2006

‘The Romanesque Fabric of Carlisle Cathedral’, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, Medieval Art and Architecture at Carlisle Cathedral Leeds, 2004

‘Architectural Developments In The Empire North Of The Alps: The Patronage of the Imperial Court’ in N. Hiscock (ed), The White Mantle of Churches, Turnhout, 2003

‘Architecture in Normandy and England, 1050-1200’ in C. Harper Bill (ed), The Companion to Anglo-Norman Studies, Woodbridge, 2003

‘La cathédrale de Winchester: ses sources et son influence’, in M.Meade, W. Szambien and S Talenti (eds), L’architecture normande en Europe: identités et échanges Marseille, 2002

‘English Romanesque and the Empire’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 24 2002

Conference Papers

2010 Romanesque East Anglia and the Empire, East Anglia and its North Sea World, University of East Anglia

2010 Lindisfarne Priory British Archaeological Association Summer Conference, Newcastle

2007 Romanesque and Early Gothic Coventry Cathedral, British Archaeological Association Summer Conference, Coventry

2007 Sacred Space in the Medieval German City, Urban Mentalities: Becoming a Town-Dweller, University of East Anglia

2006 Symbolism of Churches in Town Planning, Signs and Symbols, Harlaxton Conference

2003 English Romanesque Architecture and Flanders, France/Angleterre: les relations artistiques de la Conquête à la Renaissance, University of Paris I

2003 Romanesque Architecture in Christina’s World, Christina of Markyate and the St Albans Psalter, St Albans

2003 Bishops’ Chapels in England and Germany, British Archaeological Association Summer Conference, Mainz

Andrew Spira

Course Director, Art, Style and Design

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; aspira@christies.com

Andrew graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art before completing a MA degree in Museum and Gallery Management at City University, London. He worked at the Temple Gallery, London (specialist in Byzantine and Russian icons), and as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum where he specialised in 18th century British Art and Design, and Metalwork. He also specialises in Russian art, publishing The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition in 2008. For 20 years he has been taking tours to cultural sites in western Europe, Russia, Armenia and Georgia. He has been Course Director at Christie’s Education since 2004. He is currently working on a book on personal identity and the way it is reflected in the material culture of western Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day.

His latest book is on the modern Russian icon: The Avant-Garde Icon, Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition (October 2008). To purchase a copy online, please click here.

To read a review of The Avant-Garde Icon, Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition, that was written by Christina Lodder and featured in the Burlington Magazine, Vol. CLI No. 1281 Dec 2009 issue, please click here.

Research Interests

• Interiors and Lifestyles, 15th-21st Century
• Material Culture and Personal Identity
• Russian Art

Teaching

Undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Art, Style and Design (Decorative and Fine Arts) including:

• Lectures on furniture, silver, design history
• Art and objects, and their historical contexts
• Art and objects in a contemporary professional context (curating, dealing, marketing, legislating)
• ‘Object-based’ seminars and workshops: expertise and cataloguing
• Tutorials and Thesis supervision

Selected Publications

The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition, Lund Humphries, September 2008

Christianity: The Complete Guide, ed. John Bowden, Continuum, 2005

'The Influence of Russian Icons on Kasimir Malevich', in Kresy (Polish journal), Warsaw, 2001

1000 Symbols, Thames & Hudson, 2002

'Ars Sacra' in The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Art, ed. Martin Kemp, Oxford U. P., 2000

‘Ecclesiastical Pewter’ in Pewter at the Victoria & Albert Museum, V&A Publications, 1999

‘Ceremonial Silver’ in Silver, (ed. Philippa Glanville), V&A Publications, London, 1996

Early Christian and Byzantine Art, (ed. R.C.C. Temple), London, 1990

Icons: A Sacred Art, (ed. R.C.C.Temple), London, 1989

Patrick Bade

Senior Lecturer/Tutor

MA (Courtauld Institute)

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; pbade@christies.com

Read History of Art at UCL and completed his MA at the Courtauld Institute in 1974. Apart from his classic work, the Femme Fatale: Images of Evil and Fascinating Women (1978), he has written books on Renoir, Degas, Ingres, Courbet, Toulouse Lautrec, Beardsley, Burne-Jones, Monet, Mucha and Tamara de Lempicka. A major collector of early opera recordings, he also runs the Opera Course at Christie’s Education.

Research Interests

• 19th Century painting
• Performing arts
• Current research project: Music in World War II

Teaching

• Fine Arts 1600-1950
• 19th and 20th century decorative arts

Administration

• Short courses committee

Publications

Books

1978 Femme Fatale: Images of Evil and Fascinating Women. Ash and Grant

1985 Icons of corruption. Degeneration; the Dark side of Progress. Columbia University Press

1989 Painting and Sculpture in England, The English Tourist Board

1989 Renoir, Studio Editions

1989 Degas, Studio Editions

1998 Puccini’s Manon Lescaut Glyndebourne Opera Bites

1998-2002 titles in the Parkstone “Reveries” series

• Ingres
• Courbet
• Degas
• Toulouse-Lautrec
• Beardsley
• Renoir
• Rops
• Burne-Jones

2003 Monet and the Impressionists, Fog City Press

2004 Mucha, Parkstone Press

2005 Tamara de Lempicka, Parkstone Press

Articles

1993 Hogarth, Strauss and Hofmannsthal, The Art Quaterly

1995 Musical Impressions from Manet to Gauguin, Royal Academy of Arts

2009 Degas, Intimität und Pose. Bühne – Bordell – Boudoir, Hamburg Kunsthalle Exhibition Catalogue

Mike Ricketts

Senior Lecturer, Modern & Contemporary Art

B.A. (Hons) History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London 
Ph.D. (ongoing), Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4374; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; mricketts@christies.edu
Mike read History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and also graduated in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design where he is currently a PhD candidate working on contemporary art and urban social space. Mike is an artist and writer. Recent projects have included a performance inside a prison on a cliff top in Portland, Dorset, a fly-posting project in a market town, and an article on artist Anne Hardy for Secession, Vienna.

Research Interests

• Contemporary art and urban spatial politics
• Site-oriented and socially-engaged art practice
• Conceptualism and the city

 

Teaching

Postgraduate Courses, Modern & Contemporary Art; Occasional Short Courses; Specialist Training Programme for Post-War and Contemporary Art Department Staff, Christie’s King Street   

Administration & Other

Alumni Committee
Convenor of Staff Research Forum, Christie’s Education London 

Selected Exhibitions

2012 ‘The Vessel’, H.M.P. The Verne / b-side festival, Portland
2012 ‘Notes from Nowhere’, Foreground, Somerset
2012 ‘Prison Ship Air Crash’, 24 Grays Inn Road, London
2011 ‘Local Interference: Mike Ricketts’, worksprojects, Bristol
2010 ‘The Crystal Palace (Destroyed)’ worksprojects, Bristol
2010 ‘Zero Budget Biennial’, Rokeby, London
2009 ‘Subject:Matter’, Cass Sculpture, Goodwood, Sussex
2009 ‘Ouagadougou Rendez-vous’, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
2008 ‘Reverse Consultation (Old New Town)’, Art and the New Town, Harlow, Essex
2008 ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2007 ‘Someone Else’s House’, 6 Hillsleigh Rd, London

Selected Publications

2012  ‘Scratching the Surface (Neighbourhood Watch)’, Anne Hardy, Secession, Vienna

2006 ‘Documentary at the End of History’, Photoworks, Issue 6 (with Hope Kingsley)
2002 ‘Subplot’, Subplot, Exh. Cat. Mafuji Gallery, London
2002 ‘Anne Hardy’, Camera Austria, Issue 77
2001 ‘Abstraction’, Understanding Paintings, ed. A. Sturgis, publ. Mitchell Beazley (Contributing Editor)
1997 'Harlow', Inventory, Vol. 1, No. 2

Conference Papers

2013 ‘The Vessel’, Art et Geographie, University of Lyon
2010 ‘Four Anecdotes’, Parade: Public Modes of Assembly and Forms of Address, Chelsea College of Art and Design
2009 ‘Ali G, Amma, Asbestos: Towards a New Glossary for Crystal Palace Park’, Association of Art Historians Conference: Intersections, Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr. Cecily Hennessy

Lecturer/Tutor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; chennessy@christies.com

Dr Cecily Hennessy studied for her BA and MA in History of Art at the University of Washington in Seattle and gained a PhD in Byzantine art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2001. She has taught at universities in the USA and the UK and was Head of Short Courses and Adult Learning at the Courtauld Institute before joining Christie’s Education as a lecturer in 2006. Her book Images of Children in Byzantium was published by Ashgate in 2008. She has also published articles on late Byzantine manuscripts and a section on the topography of Constantinople in The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (2008).

Research Interests

Representation of children in Byzantine art
Middle and late Byzantine manuscript illumination
Late Byzantine wall painting
Art and architecture of Constantinople

Teaching

Lectures in ancient, early Christian, Byzantine and Renaissance art with an emphasis on early Christian and Byzantine
Undergraduate seminar, Art and Text
Graduate diploma seminar, Sources in Context
Master’s seminar, Culture and Ideology

Administration

Short courses committee
Alumni committee

Publications

 

Articles
‘‘The byzantine child: picturing complex family dynamics’, in Approaches to the Byzantine Family, edited Leslie Brubaker and Shaun Tougher, Ashgate, 2012
 
‘The Chapel of Saint Jacob at the Church of the Theotokos Chalkoprateia in Istanbul’, in Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (three volumes), eds J. Curtis,  R. Matthews, A. Fletcher, C. Gatz, M. Seymour, St J. Simpson & J.N. Tubb, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012.

‘The Stepmum and the Servant: The stepson and the Sacred Vessel in the Illustrated Homilies of John Kokkinobaphos’, Proceedings of SPBS Symposium, March 2009, eds. Liz James and Antony Eastmond, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2011.

‘Young people in Byzantium, Blackwell Companion to Byzantium, ed. L. James, Blackwell, 2010

‘The Lincoln College Typikon: The Influences of Church and Family’, Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. A. Bovey, Brepols, 2008

‘The Topography of Constantinople’, Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, ed. E. Jeffreys, with R. Cormack and J. Haldon, Oxford University Press, 2008

‘A Child Bride and her Representation in the Vatican Epithalamion, cod. gr. 1851’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 30 (2006), 115-150
‘Children on Display’, Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August, 2006, ed. F.K. Haarer and E. Jeffreys with J. Gilliland, Ashgate, 2006, vol. III, 128
‘Children as Iconic Images in S. Demetrios, Thessaloniki’, Icon and Word: The Power of Images in Byzantium, eds. A. Eastmond and L. James, Ashgate, 2003

‘A Child Bride and Her Representation in Vatican, cod. gr. 1851’, Byzantine Studies Conference: Abstracts of Papers, Notre Dame 2001

General Books
The Early Christian and Byzantine entries, 30,000 years of art, Phaidon, 2007

The Early Christian and Byzantine entries, 10,000 years of art, Phaidon, 2009

The Byzantine entries, The Art Museum, Phaidon, 2011

Book Reviews
A. Papaconstantinou and A.-M. Talbot, eds. Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium, Washington, D.C. 2009, in Speculum 86 (2011), 255-56.
Natalie Boymel Kampen, Family Fictions in Roman Art, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009, in Burlington Magazine

‘Recent Publications in Late Antique and Byzantine Art History’, includes: R. Leader-Newby, Silver and Society in Late Antiquity, Ashgate 2004; M. F. Hansen, The Eloquence of Appropriation: Prologomena to an Understanding of Spolia in Early Christian Rome, Rome 2003; T. Magnuson, The Urban Transformation of Medieval Rome, 312-1420, Stockholm, 2004. Eastmond, Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium, Ashgate 2005; V. Tsamakda, The Illustrated Chronicle of Ioannnes Skylitzes in Madrid, Leiden 2002, in Art History (2008) 31:399-406
B. Pentcheva, Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium, University Park, Penn. 2006, in The Catholic Historical Review (2007), 93.3:616-7
J. Freely and A. S. Çakmak, Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul, Cambridge, 2004, Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2005) 56: 537
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), ed. H. C. Evans, Yale 2004, Anglo-Hellenic Review (2004) 30:22-3.
J. B. Bullen, Byzantium Rediscovered, JACT (2003).

On-line Publications
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, entries on Childhood in Byzantium; Icons, Iconography; Mosaics

Lectures
April 2010: ‘The Chapel of Saint Jacob at the Church of the Theotokos Chalkoprateia in Istanbul’: 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, London

March 2010: ‘The Chapel of Saint Jacob at the Church of the Theotokos Chalkoprateia in Istanbul’, Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium, University of Birmingham

March 2009: ‘The Stepmum and the Servant: The stepson and the Sacred Vessel’: Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art

March 2009: ‘Children and the Young at the Byzantine Court: Pawns or Protagonists?’: New research on medieval childhood: an interdisciplinary workshop, University of Sheffield

May 2008: ‘The Virgin and child in the apse of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul’, Symposium on the composition of Byzantine mosaics, British Museum (for the Leverhulme Network of the Composition of Byzantine Mosaic Glass Tesserae)

April 2006: ‘The Representation of Children in Byzantium’: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, Washington, D.C.

February 2006: ‘Toys for Boys’: Sussex University Research Seminar

July 2005: ‘Children in Byzantine Art’: International Medieval Congress, Leeds University

February 2004: ‘Girls at Church and Court’ in session ‘Female Relations: Images of Women and Girls in Old and New Rome’ (Joint Chair of Session): College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle

June 2003: ‘The Lincoln College Typikon: The Influences of Church and Family’: ‘Under the Influence’ The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts,Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts, Courtauld Institute of Art

March 2003: ‘Quality Time at the Dinner Table: Calm or Calamity?’: Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium, Birmingham

November 2002: ‘The Imagery of Youthful Saints in Byzantium’: Byzantium in Belfast, AHRB Centre for Cultural History, Queen’s University, Belfast

November 2002: ‘Politics and Girlhood in Byzantium’: Sussex University Research Seminar

May 2002: ‘Girlhood to Womanhood in Byzantium’: Work in Progress Seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art

April 2002: ‘Christ’s Infancy at S. Maria Maggiore, Rome’: Canadian Conference of Medieval Historians, Herstmonceux Castle

January 2002: ‘Visibility/Invisibility: Young Male Byzantine Martyrs’: Colloquium: Seeing Gender, Kings College, London

November 2001: ‘A Child Bride and Her Representation in Vatican, cod. gr. 1851’: Byzantine Studies Conference, Notre Dame

February 2001: ‘Children and the Family in Byzantium’: Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art

February 2000: ‘Imperial Children in Byzantium: Public and Private Identities’: 5th Annual Medieval Research Colloquium, Courtauld Institute of Art

Awards

Courtauld Institute of Art Research Grant, 2003-4
Arts and Humanities Research Board Studentship, 1998-2001
SPBS Fieldwork and Research Grant, 2001, 2000
University of London Central Research Fund Grant, 2000, 1999
University of Washington, School of Art Scholarships, 1993-1997
University Bookstore Scholarship, 1994-1995
Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship, 1993-1994

Dr. Catherine James

Lecturer/Tutor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; cejames@christies.com

Catherine received her BA Hons in English and German at UEA and then went on to study for a BSc in Music at City University (and Guildhall School of Music). She gained her doctorate at the London Consortium (Tate, ICA and AA), focusing on the theme of gravity in art. She has worked throughout BBC Network Radio for many years and been an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts since 1999. She has been Book Reviews Editor for Contemporary magazine since 2005.

Research

Currently working on the theme of Gravity in Art. Her recent paper for the international conference, Dwelling, Walking, Falling at the University of Manchester (13th-14th February 2009) is due to be published in the online journal, Papers of Surrealism.

Teaching

Lectures on the MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art-world Practice

Administration

Book Reviews Editor, Contemporary magazine, since 2005

Publications

‘Swings & Roundabouts’, (Ed. N. Pearlman) Arcade, Issue 2, Lawrence & Wishart, 2001
Cicada, exhibition catalogue, 2007

Public Lectures and Conferences

Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester, Subversive Spaces, Paper: ‘Fantasy and Vertigo’

Tate Modern Public Programmes: Frieda Kahlo

Tate Modern Teacher’s Day: New Ideas in Contemporary Art

London Jewish Cultural Centre: Arts & Crafts

Rebecca Lyons

Lecturer/Tutor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; rlyons@christies.com

Rebecca studied French and German at Oxford University before going on to take her MA in The Paris and London Art Worlds 1848-1877 at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She was a full-time lecturer at the National Gallery, London from 1996 and continues to work there as a freelance leturer and writer. She has been on lecture staff at the National Portrait Gallery and Buckingham Palace and has worked with a range of broadcasters and arts organisations as an art history consultant. She has recently returned from two years of Maternity leave in 2008-9 and 2010-11.

Teaching

Rebecca teaches on the Art, Style and Design MLitt in History of Art and Art-world Practice. She is also a regular contributor to the short course and part-time programmes at Christie’s Education.

Research Interests

History of Sales and Collecting In London
Dutch C17th Painting
The City of Venice and Venetian Painting
The Relationship of Literature and Painting in C19th France

Administration

Christie’s Education Short Courses Committee
Director of a Charitable Trust in Venice
Advisor to the Guild of Registered Tourist Guides and the American Council for International Study

Publications

Documentary Films/Broadcasting

Manet, Baudelaire and Modern Life, National Gallery podcast, 2011
Christen Kobke DVD, National Gallery, 2009
Dutch Portraits in the Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals DVD, National Gallery, 2008 Selected for the Montreal International Art Film Festival 2008
Love DVD, National Gallery, 2008 

Aelbert Cuyp DVD, National Gallery, 2001
Painting the Weather BBC Website 2000
Vermeer and the Delft School DVD, National Gallery, 2000
St George and the Dragon DVD, National Gallery, 1998

Books and Catalogues

Book of Art, Dorling Kindersley, 2009, Art History Consultant
Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained, Chapter on Genre Painting, Mitchell Beazley 2000
Families co-curated exhibition and co-wrote exhibition literature, National Gallery, 2001
St George and the Dragon, curated touring exhibition and wrote exhibition literature, National Gallery, 1999

Selected Papers and Lectures since 2007

C19th Responses to Renaissance Painting, Three-week course for the National Gallery Carlo Crivelli and the Iconography of the Annunciation with Saint Emidius
Patronage in Hans Memling’s Donne Triptych
Jan Gossaert for Royal Academy Patrons
George IV as Patron and Collector for the Art Fund Series on Courts and Collecting at the Wallace Collection
Christen Kobke: Danish Master of Light Inaugural Lecture for the National Gallery lunchtime programme
C17th Spain: The Sacred Made Real Two lectures to introduce ideas of polychromy and paragone in Spanish art
Tintoretto’s St George and the Dragon: Patronage and Painting in Venice
The Art of the Procession: Spectacle and Ceremony in Renaissance Venice
German Renaissance Painting and Stained Glass: Production and Reception Three-week course for the National Gallery
The Renaissance Journeyman: Travel and Learning in Early C!6th Germany
The History of the Grand Tour on National Gallery Study Day for Batoni Exhibition
Collecting for the Nation: The Formation of the National Gallery Three-week course at the National Gallery
John Julius Angerstein and the Founding of the National Gallery
Vermeer and Dutch Painting for The Art Fund series at The Wallace Collection
Vermeer in the C19th: Thore Burger’s role in “Rediscovering” Vermeer
Baudelaire to Brian Sewell: The Changing Role of the Art Critic
Taste and Collecting in C18th England: William Hogarth and the Paintings in Marriage-a-la-Mode
Brilliant Women: C18th Bluestockings to Bloomsbury Three-week course given at the National Portrait Gallery to accompany the Brilliant Women Exhibition

Awards

Runner-up Montreal Art Film Festival 2008
Markheim Prize for Translation Oxford University 1994
Benefactor’s Prize Oxford University 1992

John Slyce

Senior Lecturer/Tutor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351

John Slyce read Modern History and Politics at the University of Florida, languages and history at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and history and critical theory at the University of Michigan. He is the author of monographs on the work of Gillian Wearing, Jemima Stehli and Cullinan-Richards, and has written on the work of artists such as Sarah Sze, Adam Chodzko, Martha Rosler, David Shrigley, Michael Landy, Carey Young, Rodney Graham and Allen Ruppersberg.

Research Interests

Research interests include the legacy of conceptual art in contemporary practices, image and text, and the trajectory of practices centred in and on the studio to a post-studio condition and production.

Teaching

John teaches on the MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art-world Practice and teaches seminars in Method and Theory

Publications

 

Books

Artworld Series: Contemporary Art: UK, London: Blackdog, 2012

Artworld Series: Contemporary Art: North America, London: Blackdog, 2011

Allen Ruppersberg: Something Out of the Ordinary, in Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or The Art of Give and Take, Santa Monica Museum of Art/JP Ringier, 2009

The Travelling Scholar in British Weathervanes by R. Graham, London: Whitechapel Art Gallery and Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, and Donald Young, Chicago, 2009

Simon Cunningham: The Double-Touch of a Restless Image, In Our World: New Photography from Britain, Milano: Skira and London: Thames and Hudson, 2008

Parallel Lines: a primer on Artlab, in ISBN 0-9540377-1-5, London: Praline, 2003

Jemima Stehli: A Writer’s Notes, in Jemima Stehli, Birmingham: ARTicle Press, 2002

Nick Waplington: Truth or Consequences, London: Phaidon, 2001

The americans. new art, London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2001

10-16, or life under the conditions of art, focus in Gillian Wearing, London: Phaidon, Contemporary Artists Series, 1999

Patrick Hughes: Perverspective, London: momentum, 1998 (second edition 2005; third edition 2011)

Catalogues

All art is local: Tom Hunter’s Unheralded Stories, Purdy Hicks, London, November 2010

Christopher Orr: Time is the Diamond, Artsway, April 2010

Becky Beasley: Vermischte Bemerkungen: Correspondences, in the artist’s book

Thomas Bernard Malamud, September 2009

Pipilotti Rist: Adventures Close To Home, in Elixir: Pipilotti Rist’s Video Organism, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 2009

Allen Ruppersberg: Something Out of the Ordinary, Camden Arts Centre, London, October 2008

Surveying the surveillance – the art of Andrew Kearney, Gallway Arts Centre, Ireland, 2008

Peter Kennard: A Conversation, Pump House Gallery, London, 2008

Paul Antick: Art, Photography and the Effective Economies of Dark Tourism, John Hansard Gallery, Univ. of Southampton, 2007

Becky Beasley, American Letter: Three Notable American Novellas, Laura Bartlett Gallery, November, 2007

Anne Hardy: 52nd Venice Biennale, New Forest Pavilion, ArtSway, 2007

Armando Andrade Tudela: Inca Snow, translation and edit of accompanying text, Counter Gallery, 2006

Photography at the Royal College of Art, degree show catalogue, 2006

Melanie Manchot: An Elongated Moment, Moscow Girls, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2006

The Photography Prize 1996-2006: A First Decade Account, catalogue essay for the 2006 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, February 2006

Welcome to the Occupation: Peter Kennard and the allegorical emblem, Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow, October 2004

Temporary Monumental: visibility, labour, value, and procedue in the projects of Michael Landy, Tate Publishing, August 2004

School is a Factory, Royal College of Art, School of Fine Art Degree Show catalogue June 2004, Forward essay

We Prefer to Resist, Artlab, Britania Works, The Breeder and British Council, Athens, Greece, April 2004

Markus Muntean/Adi Rosenblum: Precision Ambiguity, Sao Paolo Biennale, April 2004

Darren Almond, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2004

Jemima Stehli: Caught Looking, Sidewinder, various venues in India, January, 2002

Artlab: Squaring the Circle, GYMNASION, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria, July, 2001

Brian Griffiths, Civic past and futurama, ICA Beck's Futures 2, London, March 2001

Carey Young, Nothing Ventured, Fig-1 catalogue, London 2001

'Look Out! Art-Society-Politics', curated by Peter Kennard, UK travelling Aug 2000-Mar 2001

Anthony Earnshaw, 1978-2000: The Boxed Earnshaw, Flowers East, London July 2000

Gillian Wearing, catalogue essay, Biennale of Sydney, May-July 2000

Sarah Dobai, Scenarios nurtured in the everyday: The photographs, film, and video of Sarah Dobai, Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, October 2000

Thérèse Oulton, Stillness Follows, Marlborough Gallery, London, April 2000

David Shrigley, ICA Beck's Futures 1, London, March 2000

Adam Chodzko, re: Looking for Adam Chodzko in the Lost and Found, 'Let's Get Lost' curated by Jerome Sans, Central Saint Martins, London, 2000

Sarah Jones, On Time, Narration, and Performative Realism; The Photographs of Sarah Jones, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Austria December 1999

Susan Baker 1968-1982, Escaping the traps of art and life with Susan Baker, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts, USA 1998

Gillian Wearing, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, British Council Publications, 1998

Sarah Sze, The Imagined Communities of Sarah Sze, ICA, London, 1998

Articles

FRESH HELL/Carte Blanche with Adam McEwen, Palais de Tokyo, in Art Monthly, No. 342 December 2010

Michael Fullerton: Columbia, Chisenhale Gallery, Flash Art, vol. XLIII No. 275, Nov-Dec 2010, p 102

Becky Beasley, P.A.N.O.R.A.M.A. 2010, Portfolio, #52 Autumn 2010, pp 20-25

Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, Flash Art, vol. XLIII No. 274, October 2010, p 120

Vertical Integration: Armando Andrade Tudela’s Esquinas, Kaleidescope, issue 5, Feb-Mar 2010, pp 130-133

Interview with Seth Siegelaub, ‘The Contract’, part two in Art Monthly, No. 328 July-August 2009, pp 11-13

Interview with Seth Siegelaub, ‘The Playmaker’, part one in Art Monthly, No. 327 June 2009, pp 1-6

Interview with Liam Gillick, ‘Recuperating Modernism’, Art Monthly, No. 324 March 2009, pp 1-10

Muzi Quawson: Pull Back the Shade, Portfolio, #48 Autumn 2008, pp  56-63

Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint, Art Review, November, 2007, 124-125

Martin Creed, Coppermill, Flash Art, vol. XL No. 25X, October 2007: 125-126

07 Münster Sculpture Project, Art Monthly, September 2007, No. 309: pp 21-24

Matthew Buckingham, Art Monthly, June 2007, No. 307: pp 23-24

Lawrence Weiner, Art Monthly, May 2007, No. 306: pp 22-23.

Steve McQueen: For my country, Portfolio, #45 Spring 2007, pp  60-61

Peter Kennard: For what it’s worth, Portfolio, #45 Spring 2007, pp  66-67

John Bock: The Dandy, Sadie Coles HQ, Flash Art, vol. XL No. 254, May-June 2007: 135-136.

Michael Landy: H2NY/Alexander and Bonin, New York, Art Monthly, April 2007, No. 305: pp 20-21

.all hawaii eNtrées / Lunar reggae, Art Monthly, February 2007, No. 303: pp 26-28.

USA Today, Art Review, January, 2007, pp 140-141

Martin Creed, Contemporary 21, No 89 2006, pp 48-51

USA Today: Interview with Chrissie Iles, Royal Academy Magazine, Autumn 2006

Artlab 1921-2006 Cullinan+Richards, Contemporary, No 85 2006, pp 24-27.

Pull Back the Shade, Interview with Muzi Quawson, Hotshoe International, No. 143, Aug-Sep 2006, pp. 14-21

Whitstable Biennale, review in a-n magazine, August 2006, pg. 6.

Alan Charlton: Vertical Integration, Contemporary, No 82 2006, pp 32-35.

 

Dr. Minna Törmä

Lecturer/Tutor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; mtorma@christies.com
Minna studied art history and theatre history at University of Helsinki (Institute for Art Research) and received her Ph.D. in 2002 with a thesis on Northern Song landscape handscrolls: Landscape Experience as Visual Narrative. She complemented her studies with courses on Chinese art at University of California, Berkeley (1993-1994) and School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1998). She is also Adjunct Professor of Art History at University of Helsinki and her current project focuses on Osvald Siren and the scholarship and collecting of East Asian art. Visit Minna's blog here.

Research Interests

• Chinese paintings from Six Dynasties (4th c. CE) to contemporary
  
• Landscape Art (in general)
  
• Song dynasty culture
  
• Chinese architecture and gardens (including interiors and furniture)
  
• Historiography of Chinese art, history of collecting
  
• East-West relationships
  
• Current research focuses on Osvald Siren (1879-1966) and his scholarship on China, his collecting of Chinese art and travels in East Asia, to be completed in 2010. (Part of the research project “A Portrait of Art History: Critical Approaches to Finnish Art History and Art Historians”, University of Helsinki, funded by Academy of Finland)
  
• Future research (2011) looks into the theme of “The Ten Kings of Purgatory” and their visual representations in the Qing dynasty.

Teaching

• “Arts of China”, Lecturer/Tutor, Christie’s Education

Publications

Books

• (Forthcoming): Enchanted by Lohans in Boston: Osvald Sirén’s Journey into Chinese Art
  
• Landscape Experience as Visual Narrative: Northern Song Dynasty Landscape Handscrolls in the Li Cheng – Yan Wengui Tradition. Humaniora 318. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2002.
  
• Kirja teestä. Translation of Kakuzo Okakura’s Book of Tea with an introduction. Helsinki: Taide, 2000.
  
• Metsien ja virtojen ylevä viesti. Guo Xin (n. 1001 - n. 1090) ajatuksia maisemamaalauksesta. Translations from Chinese Linquan gaozhi [”The Lofty Message of Forests and Streams”] with an introduction and commentary. Helsinki: Taide, 1999.

Articles (selection of recent ones)

”Tour around the World of Art: An Art Historical Excursion to Berlin in 1919”, in Towards a Science of Art History: J.J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe, ed. by Johanna Vakkari. Art Historical Studies 38. Helsinki, 2009.

”Osvald Sirén: Tracing His Path in Art History”, in Zurich Studies in the History of Art, Georges Bloch Annual, vol. 13/14, ed. by Wolfgang F. Kersten ja R. Daniel Schneiter, 333-339. Zürich, 2009.

”Enchanted by Lohans in Boston: Tales of Osvald Sirén’s Encounter with Chinese Art” (in English and in Chinese), in The First China Contemporary Art Forum, Collection of Essays, vol. 1, 55-67. Beijing, 2009.

The Art Seminar: Landscape Theory. James Elkins, Rachael DeLue, Minna Törmä et al., 87-156. London: Routledge, 2008. (This is the publication born from the roundtable discussion held in Ballyvaughn, Ireland in 2006, my contribution is part of the transcript of the discussion which was taped and edited.)

”Decade of Change: 1920’s in the Life of Osvald Sirén”, in The Shaping of Art History in Finland, ed. by Renja Suominen-Kokkonen, 157-168. Art Historical Studies 36. Helsinki: The Society of Art History, 2007.

”Looking at Chinese Landscape Painting: Problems of Spatial Representation”, in Looking at Other Cultures: Works of Art as Icons of Memory, ed. by Anja Kervanto-Nevanlinna, 119-135. Art Historical Studies 22. Helsinki: The Society of Art History, 1999.

Conference Papers

2010: December: Enchanting Modernity: Theosophy and the Arts in the Making of Early Twentieth-Century Culture, Liverpool Hope University: “In Search of Images of Religious Purity: Osvald Sirén and the Allure of Chinese Art”

November – Questioning Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking: Conflicting Visions of ‘Asia’ under the Colonial Empires, Nichibunken/Kyoto: “Osvald Sirén’s Encounter with the Arts of China and Japan”

September – Annual meeting of British Association of Asian Studies, Bristol: “Garden as a Refuge: Osvald Sirén’s Reminiscences and Appropriations of Chinese Garden Art”

February - College Art Association, Chicago: ”Playing All the Roles: Osvald Sirén as Curator, Collector, Dealer and Art Historian”

2009: Nordic conference of art historians, Jyväskylä, Finland: ”Auspicious Furnishings for the Dream Environment”
The First China Contemporary Art Forum, International Conference on Art Theory and Criticism, Beijing, invited speaker: ”Changing Perceptions of Chinese Art”

2007: Conference Towards a Science of Art History: J.J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe, Helsinki: ”In the Netherworld: Osvald Sirén’s Role in the Art Market” Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Boston: ”Enchanted by Lohans in Boston: A Turning Point in Osvald Sirén’s Career”

2006: Landscape Theory - roundtable, Ballyvaughan, Ireland: invited discussant

2005: Seminar of the the History of Art Historical Research in Finland, Helsinki: ”Osvald Sirén, analysis of style and the canon of Chinese painting.”

2003: Nordic conference of art historians, Aarhus, Denmark: "Ancient objects in a modern setting: The Didrichsen Art Museum."

2001: Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago: "Format, experience, and narrative structure in early Northern Song landscape painting."

Awards

University of Helsinki, The prize for teaching technology, honorary prize, 2002 ”Software for the organization and presentation of visual material: Easel” group: Ph.D. Minna Törmä, Phil.lic. Johanna Vakkari and photographer Tuomo Lehtinen

Jacqui Ansell

Lecturer/Tutor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4365; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; jansell@christies.com

Jacqui read History of Art and Theory at the University of Essex before going on to gain an MA in History of Dress from the Courtauld Institute. She was Education Officer at the National Gallery, London, and is a tutor and writer for the Open University with a wide range of teaching experience (lecturing regularly on the public programmes of the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and V&A).  She has published on court dress, Grand Tour portraiture and Welsh Costume as well as dress as a cultural marker and indicator of class, gender, national and professional identity.

Teaching

Jacqui has taught on the Art, Style and Design MLitt in History of Art and Art-world Practice since 2008 (with particular responsibility for the undergraduates) and also contributes to the short course programme at Christie’s Education. She has been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University since 1992 teaching multi-disciplinary distance-learning courses on ‘The Enlightenment’, Arts Foundation Courses and ‘Art and Its Histories’ and writing material for a course on ‘Heritage’.

Research Interests

• The National Gallery’s History and Collection
• Dress on the Grand Tour (with particular reference to Batoni)
• The Dress, Etiquette and Procedures at the English Court (17th-20th Centuries)
• British Traveller’s Accounts of Wales (1650-1950)
• The Origins and Development of Welsh Costume (and historical perceptions of

Publications/Educational Material

2010 - ‘Welsh National Dress’ in Understanding Global Heritage (OU 2010) ed. Susie West

2011-2009 – National Gallery podcasts: Rubens (episode 60), Mignard (episode 48) Rubens (episode 39), Fragonard (episode 35), Reynolds (episode 31) Van Dyck (episode 22)

2008 – Batoni – Decoding Dress (with Jeremy Black) National Gallery podcast, episode 17

2008 – Specialist contributor on dress – National Gallery Batoni exhibitionDVD

2007 – Dress and Cultural Identity for Open University DVD (undergrad Sociology course)

2000-2002 – Author of distance-learning modules (B.A. level validated by Middlesex University)

‘Key Issues in C20th & C21st Art’, ‘Research Methodologies’

1997 – Co-author Teacher’s Pack Water – National Gallery Publications

1994 publication ‘Passing Judgements – Welsh Dress and the English Tourist’ in Folk Life the Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol 33 1994-5) (as Jacqueline Lewis)

1992 – Research/editorial (and Radio Interview) for Underwear by Alison Carter (B.T. Batsford)

1992-4 – 10,000 word report on gloves styles 1800-1960 for The Worshipful Company of Glovers

1992 – Researched Christmas Customs 1680-1880 – Court Dress Collection for Kensington Palace

1991-2 – 30,000 words on Court Dress, Etiquette, Procedures 1740-1880 for Kensington Palace

Organisation of Student Study Days (National Gallery 2009-2010)

‘Re-Reading the Renaissance – Vasari and his Legacy’,
‘New Art for Old – Picasso and the Masters’
‘Enfolded Meanings: Cloth, Body, Culture: ART’ (Alison Watt)
‘The Sacred Made Real: C17th Spanish Sculpture’
‘Detritus: Kienholz and the Hoerengracht’
‘Picturing the Past to Suit the Present: Delaroche’s Lady Jane Grey

(organised conferences at Courtauld Institute on ‘Working Dress’, ‘Dress and Gender’, Dress and National Identity’, ‘Court Culture’ and co-organised ‘Dress on Display’ at V&A for Courtauld History of Dress Association)

Project Co-ordinator for Wimbledon School of Art Costume Parades held at National Gallery 1997-2008

Selected Conference Papers

2007 – OU Conference ‘Colliding Cultures’ ‘’A Foreign County Within our Own’: Welsh Dress & the English Traveller’
1998 – British Society for C18th Studies (Co-Conference Organiser and Paper) ‘Courting Disaster: Dressed for Success at the C18th English Court’
1997 – Society for Court Studies (published in their journal) ‘How Girls are Presented at Court: Court Presentation in the 1870s (also presented as paper for Victorian Society, and Courtauld History of Dress Association)

Selected Recent Specialist Lectures

(apart from public lectures at National Gallery and NPG once a month across whole collection)

‘Fashioning Identities: Clothing the Renaissance Body’ – Trinity College, Cambridge
‘The Politics of Dress’ (with Yinka Shonibare’s costume maker) National Gallery
‘Fashioning the Complete Gentleman: Clothing, Conduct and the Grand Tour’ National Gallery
‘Pins and Poking Sticks: Dress in Shakespeare’s Time’ London Jewish Cultural Centre
‘Clothing and Culture in the C18th’ National Portrait Gallery
‘Dressing up for Stage or Studio - The First Actresses’ Inscape
‘Modern Minervas: C18th Women artists in a man’s world’ London Jewish Cultural Centre
‘Leonardo: The Man, the Myths and Milan Court Culture’ (numerous NADFAS groups, National Gallery)

Dr. Sadie Pickup

Lecturer/Tutor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4381; spickup@christies.com

Sadie read Classical Studies and then took her MA in Ancient Art from the University of Reading. She has recently completed her DPhil in Classical Archaeology at Oxford: Praxiteles’s Knidia: the Statue and its Reception.

Previously she taught at Oxford and Reading and has worked at the Ashmolean Museum where she was involved in the organisation of the recent Herakles to Alexander exhibition in 2011. Her book Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite was published in 2010.

Research Interests

• Greek Classical and Hellenistic sculpture
• Classical reception
• History of collections
• Archaic Cyprus

Teaching

• Lectures in Greek and Roman art and archaeology
• Undergraduate seminar, Art and Text
• Master’s seminar, Culture and Ideology

Publications

A. C. Smith & S. Pickup eds. Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite, Leiden & Boston, 2010.

Y. Galanakis & S. Pickup Heracles to Alexander: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy, Exhibition Guide, Oxford, 2011.

M. Bergeron, S. Pickup & A. C. Smith Cypriote Antiquities in the Collections of Reading, Sweden, 2012

Book Reviews

M. S. Cyrino, Aphrodite, London & New York 2010, in Classical Review 61.2 (2011), 643-44

Conference Papers

2008: Venus Disrobed: Female Nudity and the Papacy, University of Reading conference

2008: Venus Exposed: Female Nudity in Rome’s Papal Collections,Binghamton University conference

2012: From Miniature to Mighty: Sculptural Copies of Aphrodite at Delos, Getty Museum conference

Natasha Held

Learning Resources Manager

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK

Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; nheld@christies.com

Natasha has a breadth of experience working in some of London’s major art libraries, including the National Art Library (V&A Museum), Royal Academy of Arts, National Portrait Gallery, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London).

She has also managed a two year archive project at the National Art Collections Fund and worked as Business Manager for the Arts Libraries Society (ARLIS/UK & Ireland).

Natasha has a BA (Hons) in Art History & Theory from Essex University and PgDips in Museum Studies (Leicester University) and Library & Information Studies (University College London) and sits on the London Art History Libraries Forum (LAHLF).

Giovanni Gasparini

Course Director, MSc Art, Law and Business

MA Art Business (University of Manchester / Sotheby’s Institute of Art),
'Laurea’ in Economics (Universita’ Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano)

Christie's Education | London
153 Great Titchfield Street
London W1W 5BD
Tel:  +44 (0) 207 389 2719
Fax: +44 (0) 207 665 4351
Email: ggasparini@christies.edu
Web: www.christies.edu

Giovanni manages the new Master course in Art, Law and Business and teaches the Business units of the MSc.

Before joining Christie’s Education he has been lecturer on the art market at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has run a consultancy business for collectors and artists, active both in trading privately and organizing public exhibitions.

Giovanni is also a regular contributor of reports and commentary on the international art market for ArtEconomy24, a specialized section of Il Sole 24 Ore, the leading Italian financial paper.

Before joining the art world, he has been working for more than 10 years as an analyst and consultant on international affairs and aerospace businesses.

Research

Art Market dynamics and regulations, innovation in the art business practices, with a particular emphasis on the modern and contemporary art market and quantitative approaches to market analysis, including collectable markets such as stamps, classic cars and watches.
He is also committed to the restoration and protection of the artistic and historic heritage with a particular attention to his country of origin, Italy.

Teaching

Giovanni lectures on the Art Market at the MSc Art, Law and Business at Christie’s Education in London.
He is also responsible for and teaches at the CASS undergraduate course in Art and Antiques Markets in London.
He has taught International Art Markets at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and occasionally in other institutions in London and Italy.

Publications

The art market reports of Giovanni can be found at http://www.arteconomy24.ilsole24ore.com/
Previously, he has published extensively on international affairs and the aerospace industry.