Portraiture Facing the Subject by Joanna Woodall book cover showing Ingres painting

Joanna Woodall (born 1956) is an

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at the

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, London, where she is a specialist in portraiture and Netherlandish art.

Education

Woodall has a BA degree in history from the

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and an MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute.

Career

Woodall was a Speelman Fellow in Dutch and Flemish Art at Wolfson College, Cambridge, from 1980 to 1982, and an assistant curator at

Christ Church Picture Gallery Christ Church Picture Gallery is an art gallery located inside Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 300 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. The ...

, Oxford, from 1982 to 1985. She spent a year on a

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at the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a Protestant institution, it holds the distinction of being the oldest university in the Neth ...

. She has been at the Courtauld Institute of Art since 1986 where she specialises in

portraiture A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...

and

Netherlandish art The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as sta ...

. Woodall has also been a member of the editorial board of the '' Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek'' (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art) (until 2023).Professor Joanna Woodall.
The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013
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Protests

In 2010, Woodall was with a group of Courtauld students protesting about increased university tuition fees when they reportedly received rough treatment from the Metropolitan Police with Woodall herself being picked up by an officer and thrown into a group of protestors.
by Michael Savage and Nigel Morris, ''

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'', 14 December 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2013
Archived here

Selected publications

*''Portraiture: Facing the Subject''.

Manchester University Press Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England, and a publisher of academic books and journals. Manchester University Press has developed into an international publisher. It maintains its links with t ...

, Manchester, 1997. (Editor) *"Wtewael's Perseus and Andromeda: looking for love in seventeenth century Dutch painting" in C. Arscott and K. Scott eds., ''Manifestations of Venus. Art and Sexuality'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000. *''Self Portrait. Renaissance to Contemporary''.

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, London and

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, Sydney, 2005. (With Anthony Bond, Timothy J. Clark, Ludmilla J. Jordanova and Joseph Leo Koerner) *''

Anthonis Mor Anthonis Mor, also known as Anthonis Mor van Dashorst and Antonio Moro (c. 1517 – 1577), was a Netherlandish portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe. He has also been referred to as Antoon, Anthonius, Anthonis or Mor van Dashor ...

. Art and Authority. Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History Volume 8.'' Waanders Press, Zwolle, 2007. (With Tony Bond) *"A Woman's Place. Joanna Woodall 1982-1985", in Jacqueline Thalmann (ed.), ''40 Years of Christ Church Picture Gallery. Still one of Oxford’s best kept secrets''. 2008. *''Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 59 (2009): Envisioning the Artist in the Early Modern Netherlands''. Edited with H. Perry Chapman. 2010.

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