Catherine Whistler

Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of European Art at the University of Oxford.^[1][2][3]

In 2018, Whistler was awarded the British Academy Medal for her book Venice and Drawing, 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collection; the Medal is awarded "for landmark academic achievement in any of the humanities and social science disciplines supported by the Academy".^[4][5]

Selected works[edit]

• Whistler, Catherine (2010). Paolo Uccello's The hunt in the forest. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1854442482.
• Whiteley, Jon; Whistler, Catherine (2013). Master Drawings: Michelangelo to Moore. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1854442789.
• Whistler, Catherine (2015). Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1854442994.
• Whistler, Catherine (2017). Venice & drawing, 1500-1800: theory, practice and collecting. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300187731.
• Whistler, Catherine (2017). Raphael: the drawings. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-1910807156.

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