Francis Haskell

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Francis Haskell


Born
in Oxford, The United Kingdom
April 07, 1928

Died
January 18, 2000

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Francis James Herbert Haskell was an English art historian, whose writings placed emphasis on the social history of art.

Average rating: 3.94 · 259 ratings · 25 reviews · 45 distinct worksSimilar authors
Patrons and Painters: A Stu...

4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1963 — 15 editions
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The Ephemeral Museum: Old M...

3.57 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Taste and the Antique: The ...

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4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions
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History and Its Images: Art...

3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions
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The painful birth of the ar...

3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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Rediscoveries in Art: Some ...

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions
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The King's Pictures: The Fo...

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La nascita delle mostre. I ...

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Le metamorfosi del gusto

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Past and Present in Art and...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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“museums have never existed when art is in good health and creative vitality flourishes. Museums are no more than cemeteries of art, catacombs in which the remains of what were once living things are arranged in sepulchral promiscuity (...) - Théophile Thoré (1861)”
Francis Haskell, The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition