Paul Evdoros Alexander Joannides (born 4 November 1945,

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) is an emeritus professor of the

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in the

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and fellow of Clare Hall.University of Cambridge (2008).
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Career

Joannides is employed by the Department of History of Art at the

. He was appointed as assistant lecturer in 1973,

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in 1978,

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in 2002 and finally om

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in 2004. In 1981 he became a fellow at

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. He was

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of the

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from 1991 to 1992. He is a member of the Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français.

Work

Joannides completed his PhD on the French Romantic painter

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under Professor

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. He is best known for his numerous academic articles on Italian renaissance artists and on the French romantic painters in specialist art magazines like

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and

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Books published by him

* ''The Drawings of Raphael'', Phaidon Press 1983. * ''Masaccio and Masolino'', Phaidon Press, 1993. * ''Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genius'', Yale University Press, 2001.

Books co-edited by him

* ''Reactions to the Master: Responses to Michelangelo in the sixteenthcentury'', co-edited with Francis Ames-Lewis, Ashgate Press, 2003.

Exhibition catalogues

* ''Michelangelo and his Influence'', exhibition of 68 drawings for the Royal Collection, circulated in three venues in the United States and two in the UK, October 1996-April 1998, The National Gallery of Art, Washington and Lund Humphries, London, 1996. * ''Raphael and His Age - Drawings from the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille'', exhibition of 57 drawings shown at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, 2002-2003. Published in English and in French by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Réunion des Musées. * ''Late Raphael'', (co-curated with Tom Henry), exhibition at the Prado and Musée du Louvre 2012-2013.

Collection Catalogues

* ''Michel-Ange, Ecole, Copistes, Inventaire des Dessins Italiens'', Musée du Louvre, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2003. * ''The Drawings by Michelangelo and his followers in the Ashmolean Museum'', Oxford, CUP, 2007.

Personal life

His second wife was art historian Marianne Ysobel Joannides, née Sachs, who died of cancer aged 61 at home in Saffron Walden on 23 March 2007.The Daily Telegraph
/ref> She had taught history of art at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and was latterly employed at Bonhams auctioneers in London as a consultant in old master drawings. Whilst working at Phillips Auctioneers in 1994 she arranged a loan exhibition in London of Master Drawings from the De Pass Collection, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (Catalogue ).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joannides, Paul (Art Historian) Living people Academics of the University of Cambridge British art historians 1945 births Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge