John Shearman

For the Irish priest, antiquarian and historian, see John Francis Shearman.

John Kinder Gowran Shearman (pronounced "Sherman"; 24 June 1931 – 11 August 2003[1]) was an English art historian who also taught in America. He was a specialist in Italian Renaissance painting, described by his colleague James S. Ackerman as "the leading scholar of Italian Renaissance painting",[2] who published several influential works, but whose expected major book on Quattrocento painting, for the Penguin/Yale History of Art series (commissioned in 1984, and still a gap in the series in 2019),[3] never appeared.[4] However, what is widely acknowledged as his most influential book, on the concept of Mannerism, published in 1967, is still in print.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Professor SHEARMAN | | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  2. ^ Harvard Gazette
  3. ^ Independent; from the author biography of the 1984 Penguin edition of Mannerism, he was already "working on" the Quattrocento book, which the Dictionary of Art Historians says was "left uncompleted". On the series, now published by Yale University Press, see Yale UP website.
  4. ^ Independent
  5. ^ "Professor John Shearman". The Independent. 21 August 2003. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Obituary: John Shearman". The Guardian. 6 September 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2021.