Background
Gibbs, Robert John was born on July 2, 1946 in London. Son of Richard John and Mildred Gertrude (Townsend) Gibbs.
(This is the definitive study of one of the greatest artis...)
This is the definitive study of one of the greatest artists of the fourteenth century, Tomaso de Modena. His work was remarkable for its vivid expression and its varied imagery, derived from the art of the University of Bologna, its illuminated manuscripts, and the studies of Dominican and other friars. Tomaso is even more remarkable for his interest in new technologies, such as spectacles, knitting and botany, and in the aesthetic advances associated with them, light and shade, picture space, and the elaborate court dress of the age. Tomaso's greatness was recognised by the Emperor Charles IV, for whose palace in Bohemia he painted his most lavish panels. The book explores Tomaso's surviving work through reconstructions of its environment, and the structure of its support and frame. Robert Gibbs considers the political and economic background to Tomaso's art, its souces and influence on other artists, the nature of the origins of portraiture, and the relationship between north and south Europe.
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Gibbs, Robert John was born on July 2, 1946 in London. Son of Richard John and Mildred Gertrude (Townsend) Gibbs.
Bachelor with honors, University London, 1968.
Research assistant Birbeck College University London, 1968—1969. Assistant lecturer department art history University Glasgow, Scotland, 1969—1973, senior lecturer department art history Scotland, 1991—2001, reader department art history Scotland, since 2001. External examiner University St. Andrews, 1994—1998, University Aberdeen, 1997—1999, Trinity College, Dublin, since 2002.
(This is the definitive study of one of the greatest artis...)
Married Kirsty Davidson Potter, 1980 (divorced 1983). Life partner Kirsten Sams.