James S. Ackerman (1919–2016)
Auteur de Palladio
A propos de l'auteur
James Sloss Ackerman was born in San Francisco, California on November 8, 1919. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1941. He was drafted into the Army in 1942 and served with the Intelligence Corps, translating German command messages in Italy. While waiting for a transfer back afficher plus to the United States after the war, he volunteered to work for the Monuments and Fine Arts Commission in Milan. He retrieved archives that had been stored for safety in Pavia. Once back in the United States, he received a master's degree in 1947 and a doctorate in 1952 from the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. He joined the art department at Harvard University in 1960 and remained there until retiring in 1990. He wrote several books during his lifetime including The Cortile del Belvedere, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Distance Points: Studies in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture, and Origins, Imitation, Conventions. The Architecture of Michelangelo received the Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 1962. He died on December 31, 2016 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de James S. Ackerman
Art and archaeology 5 exemplaires
Thomas Jefferson 2 exemplaires
"Thomas Jefferson in Italy" 1 exemplaire
The Future of the Humanities 1 exemplaire
ART AND ARCHITECTURE A SYMPOSIUM 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo : the representation of architecture (1994) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
Rome in the Renaissance : the city and the myth : papers of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval… (1982) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Ackerman, James S.
- Nom légal
- Ackerman, James Sloss
- Date de naissance
- 1919-11-08
- Date de décès
- 2016-12-31
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- New York University Institute of Fine Arts (PhD|1952)
New York University Institute of Fine Arts (MA|1947)
Yale College (AB|1941) - Professions
- architectural historian
professor - Organisations
- Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
American Academy in Rome
US Army - Prix et distinctions
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1963)
American Philosophical Society (2000)
Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Fellow, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
Bavarian Academy of Sciences (tout afficher 15)
Accademia Olimpica
Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Accademia di San Luca
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
Henry Russell Hitchcock Award (1961)
Fellow, Society of Architectural Historians (2009)
International Balzan Prize (2001)
Leone d'oro prize of the Biennale of Architecture at Venice (2008)
Honorary Citizen of Padua (2008)
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 600
- Popularité
- #41,875
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 40
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1