Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Eye and Art in Ancient Greece A Study in Archaeoaesthetics London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2018 (256 pages, 4 b/w and 61 colour illustrations) Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today REVIEWS Ross Brendle, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 10.55 (2019)

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2008 (469 pages, 320 illustrations) BOOK AWARD 2009 REVIEWS Madeleine Viljoen, Renaissance Quarterly 69 (2009): 1287-1288 Larry Silver, The Art Book 17 (2010): 33-34 Mark P. McDonald, The Library 11 (2010): 111-113 Eckhard Leuschner, Kunstchronik 8 (2010): 367-370 Peter W. Parshall, Burlington Magazine 152 (2010): 552-553 Rose Marie San Juan, Oxford Art Journal 34 (2011): 292-294

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome Leiden: Brill, 2004 (414 pages, 37 illustrations) REVIEWS Angela Nuovo, Bibliographical Society of America 99 (2005): 346-348 Andrew Pettegree, Sixteenth Century Journal 37 (2006): 469-470 Brian Richardson, European History Quarterly 38 (2008): 517-18

books (digital)

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe An Introduction to Art and Culture in Ancient Egypt Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 1 Apple Books, April 2019 (535.3MB) 187 pages, 873 images, maps, and diagrams In this first volume of Art in Ancient Egypt, chapters on Egypt and the Nile; Egypt and the Natural World; Hieroglyphics; Signs and Symbols; Egyptian Religion; Gods and Goddesses; Pharaohs and Queens; Men and Women; Life and Death; and Art and Architecture provide an introduction to art and culture in Ancient Egypt. This eBook is available for download

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe A Survey of Art in Ancient Egypt from Predynastic Times to the Graeco-Roman Period Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 2 Apple Books, May 2019 (566.6MB) 135 pages, 732 images, maps, diagrams, videos, and interactive features In this second volume of Art in Ancient Egypt, the history of the art and architecture of Ancient Egypt is surveyed from Predynastic times to the end of the Roman Period. This eBook is available for download

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Art’s History in Europe Part 1 Apple Books, January 2014 (673MB) over 500 images, videos, maps, diagrams and interactive materials An introductory survey of art in Prehistoric Europe, Ancient Egypt, Near East, Aegean, and Greece. This eBook is available for download MORE INFORMATION

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe The Visual Experience of ART Apple Books, May 2012 (230MB) 191 illustrations, 34 interactives This book investigates how you visually experience art. It examines how your eyes see and how your brain looks at the various components of different types of art. It explains how you gather impressions and make associations, how you perceive meaning, and how art affects your thoughts, stimulates your emotions, and enhances your life experiences This eBook is available for download MORE INFORMATION

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Venus of Willendorf Apple Books, April 2013 (42.7 MB) One of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the early 20th century is a small Paleolithic stone sculpture known as the Venus of Willendorf. Who is she? we wonder. What does she represent? Is this a portrait of an actual Stone Age woman? Or might this be an image of a prehistoric Mother Goddess? These and other questions are examined in this essay This eBook is available for download MORE INFORMATION

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe 853 Beautiful Victorian Paintings Apple Books, July 2014 (710 MB) The book presents 853 Victorian paintings by 163 painters, including 16 women, spanning the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). The paintings, selected for their intrinsic beauty as works of art, are grouped by artist. This eBook is available for download

fiction (digital & printed)

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Three Fountains A Young Adult Adventure Story Amazon, October 2024 A young exiled royal princess named Izadare falls in love with Duncan when he visits her aunt’s palace selling amulets made of rare Isperagold. To escape an arranged marriage, Izadare runs away to be with Duncan, who lives part of the year underground collecting nuggets of Isperagold along the tunnels of the subterranean Ispera River. Duncan takes Izadare to Ballawais, his mother’s oasis village in the desert, where they are married. However, the young couple are quickly overtaken by a series of tragic events and are separated. Izadare, alone, gives birth to twins, a girl and a boy, but loses her young son when he is taken away from her by pirates. The son, Otawais, grows up working as a slave on a farm in Morgada, and later serving as a cabin boy on a pirate galley. He eventually manages to escape captivity and is taken in and cared for by tin miners. Meanwhile, Izadare and her daughter, Simbellisa, have moved to the mysterious floating city island of Yse, the birthplace of Izadare’s mother, Queen Oinda, where they learn to develop unusual supernatural gifts and magic powers. After several years have passed, Izadare and her two children are reunited and together they set off in search of Duncan who has embarked on a quest to find the mythical Garden of the Isperades where the Tree of Ispera grows on an island in a lake. The tree’s golden fruit grants wishes to those who taste it. Available on Kindle or in Paperback through Amazon

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe The Jerusalem Project Secretly guided by Watcher wisewomen, Angelo Marrelli becomes involved in a project to transform the city of Rome Story One in the Reset Series Amazon, October 2022 In the 16th century in Italy, Angelo Marrelli learns the art of engraving while serving in the Gonzaga court in Mantua. After travelling to Venice, where he meets a renowned courtesan, he moves to Rome and then to Naples, where he becomes caught up in the Vatican’s clandestine scheme to transform the physical city of Rome into the mystical Heavenly Jerusalem. However, Angelo also learns that the project, which involves the occult use of a “magic” golden map and a strange optical device, has been secretly devised by Watcher wisewomen to open up a portal connecting Earth and the world of Haven. Available on Kindle or in Paperback through Amazon

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe The Woman From Eden A Wisewoman from Haven Transposes to Earth to Retrieve an Ancient Stone of Wisdom Story Two in the Reset Series Amazon, October 2022 Roxanne King, a wisewoman from Earth’s sister-world of Haven, has come to Earth to retrieve the Lapisophia Tablet, an ancient source of wisdom for Earth’s Watcher wisewomen. Roxanne travels to Jerusalem and Rome with Alexander Fisher, a researcher at a Foundation in London, who learns he has a special “gift” for bringing into existence the portals through which Roxanne passes between Earth and Haven. Available on Kindle or in Paperback through Amazon

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Ned Reisner's Chronicle Wisewomen reset Earth’s symbiotic life-system to save humanity from extinction Story Three in the Reset Series Amazon, June 2022 The flaw disrupting Earth’s symbiotic life-system had now triggered an alien lifeform invasion. In an effort to save humanity from extinction, Ek'nana, a wisewomen from Earth’s sister-world of Haven, takes over the mind and body of Canadian news reporter Ned Reisner. As she prepares to Reset the Earth, Ek'nana educates Ned, introducing him to Earth’s Watcher wisewomen and sharing with him new and astonishing information about Life and the Universe. Available on Kindle or in Paperback through Amazon

articles (printed)

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe The Chapel of the Courtesan and the Quarrel of the Magdalens The Art Bulletin 84 (2002): 273-292 Amazon.com, or access the article through JStor

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Vasari’s Knighthood (revised and updated version of 1991 article) Giorgio Vasari 1511–1574 The Painter of the Szeged Annunciation Edited by Szabó Tamás and Zombori István (Szeged: Móra Ferenc Múzeum, 2011), 81-85 (in English and Hungarian)

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Gregory XIII and the Accademia di S. Luca Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 54 (2009): 107-118 Access this article through JStor

Dürer's Prodigal Son. Source: Notes in the History of Art 17 (1998): 7-13. Access this article through JStor Two Avvisi, Caravaggio, and Giulio Mancini. Source: Notes in the History of Art 12 (1993): 22-29. Access this article through JStor Cesare Ripa and the Sala Clementina. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 55 (1992): 277-282. Access this article through JStor Giovanni Battista Mercati: notizie sui dipinti e sulle incisioni. Bollettino d'Arte 76 (1992): 53-70. Herrera's Papal Privilegio for the Escorial Prints. Print Quarterly 9 (1992): 177-180. Access this article through JStor Christopher Plantin's Papal Privileges: Documents in the Vatican Archives. De Gulden Passer 69 (1991): 133-143. Some Letters and Some Prints Dedicated to the Medici by Cherubino Alberti. Sixteenth Century Journal 22 (1991): 641-660. Access this article through JStor Vasari's Knighthood, Source: Notes in the History of Art 6 (1991): 9-13. Access this article through JStor

Privilegio Papale per la pubblicazione degli statuti dell'Ordine di San Giovanni di Malta (Roma, 1588) / The Privilegio for the Publication of the Statutes of the Order of St. John in Malta (Rome, 1588). Rivista Internazionale del Sovrano Ordine di Malta 23 (1991): 28-38 (in Italian and English). Cherubino Alberti and the Ownership of Engraved Plates, Print Quarterly 6 (1989): 160-169. Access this article through JStor Raffaellino del Colle and Giulio Romano's Holy Family with Saints in S. Maria dell'Anima, Gazette des Beaux-Arts 114 (1989): 51-62. An Annunciation by Giovanni Battista Cungi. Burlington Magazine 131 (1989): 849-851. Access this article through JStor A Vasari Assistant: Giovanni Paolo del Colle. Source: Notes in the History of Art 6 (1987): 23-26. Access this article through JStor An Illusionistic Oculus by the Alberti Brothers in the Scala Santa. Gazette des Beaux-Arts 110 (1987): 61-72.

Sixtus V and the Scala Santa. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 44 (1985): 168-179. Access this article through JStor A New Fresco by Cherubino Alberti in the Vatican. Source: Notes in the History of Art 4 (1984): 12-16. Access this article through JStor Giuseppe Porta's Frontispiece for Francesco Marcolini's Sorti. Arte Veneta 37 (1983): 170-174. The Vatican Apartment of Cinzio Aldobrandini: Notes & Documents. Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 19 (1981): 173-189. Access this article through JStor ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Agostino dei Musi Baviera Antonio Salamanca Properzia de' Rossi Bernardino Passeri The Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan, 1996) Purchase the set through Amazon.com All five entries also published in Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art (London: Macmillan, 2000). Purchase a copy through Amazon.com

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Water: Cult & Culture in The Perfect Flow (2008) Grohe AG, Feldmühleplatz 15, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Bye bye, slides / Bye bye, carousels / Hello Internet / I think I'm a-gonna cry-y in Teaching Art History with New Technologies: Reflections and Case Studies Edited by Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Laetitia La Follette and Andrea Pappas (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). Purchase a copy through Amazon.com

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Art, Pleasure, and Love in The Love: Of the Fifth Spiritual Paradigm Narrated by Laurel, Oracle Institute Press, 2010). Purchase a copy through Amazon.com

Stonehenge

Menkaure and His Queen

Minoan Snake Goddess

papers

CONFERENCE PAPERS Perception and Visual Culture. Presented in the session "Using, Reusing, and Abusing the Ideals and Forms of the Ancient Past" at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) conference in Cambridge, England, April 6-10, 2005 Gregory XIII and the Academy of St. Luke in Rome. Presented in the session "Gregory XIII, I: Rome and the Vatican," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC), Toronto, Canada, October, 2004 Best Sellers? Studying Prints in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Presented in the session "Continuity and Change: The State of Research on Sixteenth-Century Italian Art," at the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), Seattle, February, 2004 Looking at Pictures: Art History and the Perception of Visual Images. Presented in the session "Art, Science and Visual Studies" at the conference "Making Connections," Association of Art Historians (AAH), Oxford, England, March, 2001 Art History and Technology: A Brief History; New Directions. Presented in the session "Using Technology to Teach Art History" at the Annual Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Louisville, Kentucky, October, 2000 (See also the website)

What's the Dilemma? Teaching Art History on the Web. Presented in the Visual Resources Association (VRA) session "Into Hot Water? The Digital Dilemma - Issues and Answers" at the Annual Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Miami Beach, Florida, October, 1998 Mary Magdalen in Renaissance Art. Presented by invitation at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference on "Mary Magdalen in History and Legend," University of California at Los Angeles, May, 1997 Cum Privilegio: Copyright in Renaissance. Presented in the session "History, Art, and Copyright" at the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), New York, February, 1997 Venice and Rome: The Print Connection in the Sixteenth Century. Presented in the session "Italian Art 1300-1700: Venice and Rome" at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Washington, D.C., Fall, 1995. Abstract published in Southeastern College Art Conference Review XIII (1996): 83 The Shifting Identity of Mary Magdalen in the Renaissance. Presented in the session "The Renaissance Woman II" at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC), St. Louis, Missouri, Fall, 1993

Prints and Copyright in 16th Century Italy. Presented at the Alumni Symposium: Art History for the 1990s: Marking Change in the Museum, the Academy, and the Marketplace, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring, 1993 Raphael, Giulio Romano, and the Chapel of the Courtesan. Presented in the session "The Italian Renaissance Chapel: Patrons, Programs, and Problems" at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Memphis, Tenn., Fall, 1991. Abstract published in Southeastern College Art Conference Review XII (1992): 118-119 Vasari's Vita of Marcantonio Raimondi: Some Remarks on Interpretation. Presented at Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Winter Park, Florida, Fall, 1988. Abstract published in Southeastern College Art Conference Review XI (1989): 324-325 SEMINAR PAPERS Print Shop Rivalry in Sixteenth-Century Rome. Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Renaissance/Reformation Seminar (MARRS) at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, March 4, 2006 Papal Plans for the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Presented in the Robert H. Smith Seminar on the Accademia di San Luca at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 9-10, 2004

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper

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In the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak in Egypt

Hot-air balloon ride over Thebes in Egypt

Monet's water-lily pond at Giverny

Dancers on Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands

Paul Gauguin’s House on Hiva Oa

1998 “Friar Francis” in William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (Sweet Briar College Theatre Production) 1996 “Avram” in Fiddler on the Roof (Sweet Briar College Theatre Production) 1994 “Koryphaios of Men” in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (Sweet Briar College Theatre Production) 1992 “Petulant” in William Congreve’s The Way of the World (Sweet Briar College Theatre Production) 1990 “Theseus” in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sweet Briar College Theatre Production)

LECTURES & WORKSHOPS ON TECHNOLOGY Teaching on the Web. Invited lecture in the session "Getting Started with Technology in the Classroom" (VFIC and DuPont Faculty Technology Initiative), Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, June, 2000 Teaching Using the Web. Presentation in a Workshop for Faculty in the Humanities (VFIC and DuPont Faculty Technology Initiative), Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, June 1999 Web / Images / Teaching / Research. Invited lecture and workshop at the First Annual Meeting of the Art History Webmasters Association, University of Québec at Montréal, Canada, March, 1998 COLLOQUIUM The Portals of Art History. Colloquium attended by invitation sponsored by the Mellon Foundation at The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, May 11-12, 2007 EDITORIAL BOARDS Primary Sources On Copyright (1450-1900) Arts (2011–2018)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe and Carol Lea Clark ART: Hits on the Web (Thomson Learning, 2002, earlier editions published 2001, 2000) Purchase a copy through Amazon.com Sacredness in TheoSophia 69 (June 2008): 16-17. Official magazine of the Theosophical Society in New Zealand Seeing Through Art: A Course on Images of Women and Men in Western Art in Transformations 6 (1995): 16-38 Access this article through JStor

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Early Life Born: November 17, 1949 Place of Birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Residences: Warborough Farm, Letcombe Regis, Nr. Wantage, Berkshire, England (1949-1952) Hampstead Norreys, Nr. Newbury, Berkshire, England (1952-1956) Compton, Nr. Newbury, Berkshire, England (1956-1968) Schools: Norreys Ash School, Newbury, Berkshire, England St. Bartholomew‘s School, Andover Road, Newbury, Berkshire, England (1961-1963) Reading School (boarder: East Wing), Erleigh Road, Reading, Berkshire, England (1963-1968)