Andrew Ladis
Andrew Ladis | |
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Art historian and professor | |
Known for | Research studies on early Italian Renaissance painting |
Andrew Thomas Ladis (January 30, 1949 – December 2, 2007) was a
Biography
Andrew Ladis was born in
While at the University of Georgia he took time off to spend a year at the University of Memphis, where he held the Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History, and twice served as a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Later in life, he also developed an interest in American art and wrote a series of essays on Gerald Brockhurst, Lucy May Stanton, George Biddle, Raphael Soyer, Paul Cadmus, and Andrée Ruellan.[2] Ladis died of cancer in Athens, Georgia, on December 2, 2007, at the age of 58. He was survived by his partner of 37 years, William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art.[3]
Papers from Ladis's 2006 Festschrift were published in The Historian's Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew Ladis (Georgia Museum of Art, 2009).[4]
Selected bibliography
Ladis was the general editor or co-editor of six volumes and series on art history, as well as authoring numerous scholarly articles and monographs and several books, including:
- Taddeo Gaddi: A Critical Review and Catalogue Raisonné (1983)
- The Brancacci Chapel, Florence (1993)
- Studies in Italian Art (2001)
- Victims and Villains in Vasari's Lives (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History) (2008)
- Giotto's "O": Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel (2008)
Notes and references
- ^ a b Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, (2007) pp. 1-2
- ^ See for example, Ladis's "George Biddle, Raphael Soyer, and the Genius with a Thousand Faces", published in 2003 by the Georgia Museum of Art and reprinted with permission by the online resource library of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization.
- ^ Phillips (December 4, 2007)
- ^ Georgia Museum of Art (2009). See also a special volume on art and literature in his honor in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, vol. 32, no. 2 (Winter 2006).
Sources
- Explorations in Renaissance Culture vol. 32, no. 2 (Winter 2006). (This issue, which contains articles by Andrew Ladis, Marina Della Putta Johnston, Karen Goodchild, April Oettinger and Norman Land, is dedicated to Andrew Ladis. A brief memoir concerning Andrew Ladis by Bruce Cole also appears)
- Georgia Museum of Art, Publications: Renaissance and Baroque Art, 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
- University of Georgia, Andrew Ladis. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
- Phillips, Julie, "Art world mourns loss", Athens Banner-Herald, December 4, 2007. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
- Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, In Memoriam: Andrew Ladis, 2007, Retrieved 2010-09-07.