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Lionel Benedict Nicolson MVO (6 August 1914 – 22 May 1978) was a British art historian and author. He was the author of The Painters of Ferrara (1950) and Hendrick Terbrugghen (1958).
Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978) was a prominent art historian and the longest-serving Editor of the Burlington Magazine. He wrote books on seventeenth-century art, Caravaggio, Seurat and Courbet, and was known for his wit and charm.
7 set 2017 · Benedict Nicolson: becoming an art historian in the 1930s by CAROLINE ELAM, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington editing the burlington magazine was the centre of Benedict Nicolson's life for over thirty years. Explaining his decision to give up his post as Deputy Surveyor of the King's Pictures, he wrote to Bernard Berenson in 1949:
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Nicolson served in British Army Intelligence, 1939-45, first as an interpreter in a POW camp in Italy and then the Middle East where he rose to the rank of captain. He was badly injured in an auto accident while on leave in England and never returned to service.
15 mar 2024 · 'Art, Life, Love: Narratives from the Benedict Nicolson Archive', a Drawing Room Display held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,...
Georges de La Tour French. ca. 1640. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 622. With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, pared-down geometry, and meditative mood, this painting exemplifies La Tour’s painting at its most accomplished and characteristic.
