Edward Chaney

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Professor
Edward Paul de Gruyter Chaney
PhD FSA FRHistS
Born1951
Southampton Solent University
Main interestsGrand Tour, Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations, History of Collecting, Inigo Jones, Legacy of Ancient Egypt, 20th century British Art
Notable worksEvolution of the Grand Tour (1998)
Websitehttps://www.solent.ac.uk/staff-profiles/academic-profiles/edward-chaney/edward-chaney

Edward Chaney

FRHistS (born 1951) is a British cultural historian.[1] He is Professor Emeritus at Solent University and Honorary Professor at University College London (School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) – Centre for Early Modern Exchanges London).[2]
He is an authority on the evolution of the Grand Tour, Anglo-Italian cultural relations, the history of collecting, Inigo Jones and the legacy of ancient Egypt. He also publishes on aspects of 20th-century British art. In 2003, he was made a Commendatore of the Italian Republic.[3] He is the biographer of Gerald Basil Edwards, author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page which he succeeded in publishing following the author's death in 1976.[4] This has since been recognised as a twentieth-century classic.[5]

Life

Education

Chaney was educated at

Reading University before completing an MPhil and PhD at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He also has a Laurea from the University of Pisa. He married biographer Lisa Jacka in Paris, 1973, and has two daughters, Jessica Chaney, former art director of Apollo magazine, and singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney. The marriage was dissolved in 2002.[6]

Work

From 1978 to 1985 Chaney lived in Florence where he was a 'Ricercatore' at the European University Institute, adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University's Villa Le Balze, an Associate of Harvard University's Villa I Tatti and taught at the University of Pisa.[citation needed]

From 1985 to 1990 he was the Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural History at

Southampton Solent University, where he established the History of Collecting Research Centre.[7]

In 2014 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Art History at the

New College of the Humanities and January–March 2015 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.[8]

He was co-founder and editor of Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, and has served on the Executive Committee of the British-Italian Society, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Catholic Record Society.[citation needed]

He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of:[citation needed]

In 2016 he was appointed Governor of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.[citation needed]

Bibliography

Books

  • Oxford, China and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton (ed. with Neil Ritchie, Thames and Hudson, 1984)
  • The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion: Richard Lassels and 'The Voyage of Italy' in the Seventeenth Century (C.I.R.V.I., Slatkine, 1985)[9]
  • A Traveller's Companion to Florence (intro Harold Acton, Constable, 1986; 2nd ed. Constable and Robinson, 2002)[10]
  • England and the Continental Renaissance (ed with Peter Mack: Boydell Press, 1990)
  • English Architecture: Public and Private (ed with John Bold: Hambledon Press, 1993)[11]
  • The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance (1998; 2nd, paperback edition, Routledge, 2000)[12]
  • The Stuart Portrait: Status and Legacy (with Godfrey Worsdale; Paul Holberton Publishing, 2001).
  • The Evolution of English Collecting: Receptions of Italian Art during the Tudor and Stuart Periods (Yale University Press, 2003)[13]
  • Richard Eurich 1903–1992: A Visionary Artist (with Christine Clearkin, Paul Holberton, 2003)
  • Introduction, updated bibliography and corrections to new edition of John Hale's England and the Italian Renaissance (Blackwell, Oxford 2005)
  • Inigo Jones's 'Roman Sketchbook', 2 vols. (Roxburghe Club, 2006)
  • William Rose: Tradition and an Individual Talent (Bath, 2009)
  • The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe (with Timothy Wilks; I.B. Tauris, 2014).[14]
  • Genius Friend: G.B. Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (Blue Ormer, 2015)[15]
  • Florence: A Traveller's Reader (Robinson, 2018)

Digital publications (selection)

Media

Awards

References

  1. ^ 'CHANEY, Prof. Edward Paul de Gruyter', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U70846. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Professor Edward Chaney academic profile". solent.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Presidenza della Republica: Onorificenza". quirinale.it. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  4. ^ Fowles, John, Introduction to The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Hamish Hamilton, 1981
  5. ^ Margaret Drabble, Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th ed. p.99.
  6. ^ 'CHANEY, Prof. Edward Paul de Gruyter', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U70846. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Professor Edward Chaney | School of Art, Design and Fashion | Southampton Solent University". Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Edward Chaney • European University Institute". 22 September 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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  • Palmer, William (August 2016). "William Palmer - Guernsey's Finest". Literary Review