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The Courtauld Gallery

Somerset House

Strand

London

WC2R 0RN

 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2922

Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2589

caroline.campbell@courtauld.ac.uk

 

Caroline Campbell was born and educated in Belfast. She read Modern History at University College, Oxford, and subsequently received an MA and a PhD from The Courtauld Institute, on the iconography of 15th century Florentine cassoni. She was Print Room Supervisor in the Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1998-2000); Curatorial Assistant (2000-01) and Assistant Curator of Renaissance Paintings (2001-05) at the National Gallery, London. Caroline joined The Courtauld as Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings in 2005.

 

Exhibitions curated:

 

 Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence:  The Courtauld Wedding Chests, London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2009

Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach’s ‘Adam and Eve’, London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2007 (with Stephanie Buck)

All Spirit and Fire: Oil Sketches by Tiepolo, London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2006

Bellini and the East, Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and London, National Gallery, 2005-06 (with Alan Chong)

She was Assistant Curator of Titian, London, National Gallery, 2003

 

Current research/interests:

 

  • Venetian fifteenth- and sixteenth-century painting and the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Venetian sixteenth-century painting for the domestic setting
  • Florentine fifteenth-century cassoni
  • The Master of the Fogg Pietà (in collaboration with Joanna Cannon, Aviva Burnstock and Austin Nevin)
  • Technical art history
  • The reception of Venetian Renaissance in Britain

 

Books and Articles

 

'Favole tolte da Ovidio: the transformation of Ovid's Metamorphoses on Florentine cassoni' in Cristelle Baskins and Alan Chong, eds., The Triumph of Marriage, Philadelphia, 2012 (forthcoming)

'Titian in 19th-century British fiction', in Peter Humfrey, ed., The Reception of Titian in England, 1690-1878, Brepols, 2012 (forthcoming)

'Humanism and maiolica', in Thierry Crépin-Leblond and Françoise Barbe, eds., La faïence des humanistes, exh. cat., Écouen, Musée National de la Rénaissance, 2011, pp. 21-25

'When is a cassone painting not for a cassone? Towards a history of furniture painting in sixteenth-century Venice' in Jim Harris, Scott Nethersole, Per Rumberg, eds., Una insalata di più erbe. A Festschrift for Patricia Lee Rubin, London, 2011, pp. 11-20

'The Making of the Card Players' (with Aviva Burnstock, Charlotte Hale and Gabriella Macaro), in Cézanne's Card Players, exh. cat., eds. Nancy Ireson and Barnaby Wright, London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2010, pp. 35-53

'A technical examination of 15th-century cassone panels in The Courtauld Gallery' (with Tilly Laaser and Aviva Burnstock), in Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung (ZKK), 2009, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 315-26

Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence:  The Courtauld Wedding Chests, exh. cat., The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009

Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach’s ‘Adam and Eve’, exh. cat., The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2007

‘Lorenzo Tornabuoni's 'History of Jason and Medea' series. Chivalry and Classicism in 1480s Florence’, Renaissance Studies, February 2007, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-19

Bellini and the East (with A. Chong), exh. cat., London, National Gallery and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2005-06

 'Titian's Jacopo Pesaro presented by Pope Alexander VI to St Peter' in S. Janssens, ed., Titian: Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter, Antwerp, 2003, pp. 1-8

‘Rustici's Mercury', The National Gallery Review, April 2002-March 2003, p. 23

'Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Cardinal Bessarion', The National Gallery Review, April 2001-March 2002, pp. 24-25

 'Revaluing dress in Quattrocento history paintings', in G. Neher and R. Shepherd, eds., Re-valuing Renaissance Art, Aldershot, 2000, pp. 137-43

 'Painting for Patrician Palaces', The Ashmolean, Summer 2000, pp. 8-9

 

Catalogue Entries

 

5 catalogue entries in Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, exh. cat., eds. Stephanie Buck and Colin Bailey, London, The Courtauld Gallery and New York, Frick Collection, 2012-13 (forthcoming)


 1 catalogue entry in Axel Vecsey, ed., Botticelli to Titian:  Masterpieces of Two Centuries of Italian Art, exh. cat., Budapest, Szépmûvészeti Múzeum. 2009-10

6 catalogue entries in Stephanie Buck, ed., Michelangelo’s Dream, exh. cat., London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2010

1 catalogue entry in Baroque 1620-1800:  Style in the Age of Magnificence (exh. cat.), ed. M. Snodin, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2009

8 catalogue entries in The Courtauld Gallery Masterpieces, ed. E. Vegelin van Claerbergen, London, 2007

9 catalogue entries in David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting (exh. cat.), ed. E. Vegelin van Claerbergen, London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2006-07

11 catalogue entries in Titian (exh. cat.), ed. D. Jaffé, London, National Gallery, 2003

4 catalogue entries in Titian (exh. cat.), ed. M. Falomir, Madrid, Museo del Prado, 2003

2 catalogue entries (Bernardino d'Asola) in Queen Christina of Sweden (exh. cat.), Rome, Palazzo Ruspoli, 2003

 

Book and Exhibition Reviews

 

Review of 'Filippino Lippi and Botticelli', exhibition and catalogue, ed. A. Cecchi, Rome, Scuderie Quirinale, The Burlington Magazine, Jan. 2012, no. 1306, vol. CLIV, pp. 64-65


‘The Renaissance in the Galleries’ (review of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries at the V&A), Apollo, vol. 170, no. 571, December 2009, pp. 50-53

Review of B. Furlotti and Guido Rebecchini, ‘The Art and Architecture of Mantua:  Eight Centuries of Patronage and Collecting’ (New York and London, 2008), Art Quarterly, Spring 2009, p. 66

Review of ‘Venice and the Islamic World’ (exh. cat., ed. S. Carboni, Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006-07), The Art Newspaper, March, 2007

‘Why Crivelli Matters’, review of R. Lightbown, ‘Carlo Crivelli’ (New Haven and London, 2004) Art History, February 2007, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 126-30

Review of ‘At Home in Renaissance Italy’ (exh. cat., ed. F. Ajmar and F. Dennis, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2006-07), The Art Newspaper, February 2007

Review of P. Fortini Brown, ‘Private Life in Renaissance Venice’ (New Haven and London, 2004), The Burlington Magazine, Nov. 2006, no. 1244, vol. CXLVIII, p. 783

‘Botticelli in Paris and London’, Renaissance Studies, March 2005, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 114-118

‘Venice in Edinburgh’, Apollo, September 2004, pp. 44-45

Review of O. Pächt, 'Venetian Painting in the Fifteenth Century', The Times Literary Supplement, 2 January 2004, p. 29