John Richards

John Richards
University of Glasgow - School of Culture and Creative Arts
Head of Subject and Senior Lecturer

John Richards is Head of Subject and Senior Lecturer of History of Art, at the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. John is also Principal Investigator of the EU-funded project European Collected Library of Artistic Performances (ECLAP) and co-Principal Investigator of the EU-funded project Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg (SHAMAN). His teaching and research are concentrated on late medieval and early Renaissance art, with particular emphasis on the impact of Humanism on visual culture, a major aspect of his books on Altichiero (2000) and Petrarch's Influence on the Iconography of the Carrara Palace in Padua: the Conflict between Ancestral and Antique Themes in the Fourteenth Century (2007).

Selected publications:

Richards, John. 2007. "Fouquet and the Trecento" Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 70, (4): 449-472.

Richards, John. 2007. Petrarch’s Influence on the Iconography of the Carrara Palace in Padua: The Conflict between Ancestral and Antique Themes in the Fourteenth Century. New York: Lampeter.

Richards, John. 2006. "Sir Oliver de Ingham (d.1344) and the Foundation of the Trinitarian Priory at Ingham, Norfolk." Church Monuments 21: 34-57.