Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the tra ...

and

Baroque art The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...

. She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pr ...

, and

Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professor ...

of the History of European Art at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...

. In 2018, Whistler was awarded the

British Academy Medal The British Academy Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to three individuals or groups. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in ... any branch of ...

for her book ''Venice and Drawing, 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collection''; the Medal is awarded "for landmark academic achievement in any of the humanities and social science disciplines supported by the Academy".

Selected works

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Whistler, Catherine Living people British art historians Women art historians Historians of the Renaissance Fellows of St John's College, Oxford People associated with the Ashmolean Museum British women historians Year of birth missing (living people)