Giles Henry Robertson
Giles Henry Robertson
FRSE
RSA (Hon) (1913–1987) was a 20th-century British art historian and expert on the Italian Renaissance.
Life
He was born in
Oxford University.[1]
In the
Schloss Nordkirchen.[2]
Late in 1946 he began lecturing in fine art history at
Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art in 1972, remaining in this post until retirement in 1981. In 1975 he guided the construction and opening of the Talbot Rice Gallery, named after his predecessor Professor David Talbot Rice
.
In 1982 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Cameron, Lord Cameron, John McIntyre, Neil Campbell and Colin Thompson.[3]
He died at Vaucluse in France on 22 September 1987.[4]
In 1998 his family donated his library of over 1200 art books to Edinburgh University.
Publications
- Vincenzo Catena (1954)
- Giovanni Bellini (1968)
- Artist and Art Historian (1972)
- Studies in Memory of David Talbot Rice (1975)
- Aleksander Zyw (1975)
References
- ^ "Giles Henry Robertson".
- ^ "Robertson, Maj. Giles H. | Monuments Men Foundation".
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ University of Edinburgh Journal December 1987
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