Judith Colton

Judith Colton is an American historian of art who is a professor emerita at Yale University. One of her best known works is The Parnasse Franc̈ois: Titon Du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius (1979), a study of Évrard Titon du Tillet.

Background

Colton did her undergraduate studies at Smith College, graduating in 1963, and earned master's and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 1965 and 1974 respectively. She joined the Yale faculty in 1973, and retired in 2006.^[1]

She was a long-term companion of English art historian Michael Kitson, who died in 1998.^[2]

Works

In the 1970s, Colton conducted research into Queen Caroline and British aristocracy, and published papers such as "Kent's Hermitage for Queen Caroline at Richmond" in Architectura (1974),^[3] and "Merlin's Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda" in Eighteenth-Century Studies (1976).^[4]

One of her best known works is The Parnasse Franc̈ois: Titon Du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius (1979), a study of Évrard Titon du Tillet.^[5] In 1987 she was a contributor to the book A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America: 1650-1750, which included commentary on late Baroque painter and printmaker Luca Giordano.^[6]

Selected publications

• "The Endymion Myth and Poussin's Detroit Painting", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 30, 1967: 426–431, doi:10.2307/750763.
• "Kent's hermitage for Queen Caroline at Richmond", Architectura 4, 1974: 181–191
• "Merlin's Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda", Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 (1), 1976: 1–20, doi:10.2307/2737814. Winner of the James L. Clifford Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for 1977–1978.^[7]
• The Parnasse François: Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.^[8][9][10]
• A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650–1750, eds. J. Colton and G. Hersey. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987.^[11]

References

1. Faculty profile, Yale Department of the History of Art, retrieved 2015-05-14.
2. "Michael Kitson, 72, Art History Professor", New York Times, August 30, 1998.
3. Bindman, David; Museum, British (1997). Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy. University of California Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-21300-5.
4. Lynall, Gregory (22 May 2012). Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-137-12451-7.
5. Rosenberg, Pierre (1982). France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-century French Paintings in American Collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-87099-295-7.
6. Stone, Harold Samuel (1 January 1997). Vico's Cultural History: The Production and Transmission of Ideas in Naples, 1685-1750. BRILL. p. 120. ISBN 90-04-10650-2.
7. ASECS Past Prize Winners, retrieved 2015-05-14.
8. Goldstein, Carl (June 1981), "The Parnasse Francois. Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius", Review, The Art Bulletin 63 (2): 342–344, doi:10.2307/3050132.
9. Levitine, George (1980), "The Parnasse Francois: Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius", Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies 13 (4): 462–466, doi:10.2307/2738098.
10. "Judith Colton. The Parnasse François: Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius", Reviews of Books, The American Historical Review 85 (3), 1980: 637, doi:10.1086/ahr/85.3.637
11. Rabiner, Donald (1990), "A Taste for Angels. Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650–1750", Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies 24 (1): 123–126, doi:10.2307/2738992.