Dr Philip Cottrell MA, PhD.
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Biography:
| Philip Cottrell obtained his doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 2001. His thesis, 'Bonifacio's Enterprise - Bonifacio de' Pitati and Venetian Painting', forms the basis of a forthcoming book he is co-authoring with Peter Humfrey. Between 1997-9 he was co-editor of Inferno - The St Andrews Journal of Art History, and more recently he has served on the committee of the Irish Association of Art Historians. In this capacity he was instrumental in establishing Artefact, the association's journal, for which he also acted as an academic advisor. He has obtained research awards from the Russell Trust, The Carnegie Trust for Scotland, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York, the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Royal Irish Academy, and the National University of Ireland. |
Research Interests
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Philip Cottrell's research has primarily focused on 16th century Venetian painting, with particular reference to Bonifacio de'Pitati, Tintoretto and Titian. He has recently published on the following topics: the portraits of Baldassare Castiglione, the depiction of vagrancy and disease in Venetian art; the market for Venetian pictures at the court of Philip II in Spain. He is currently involved in three research projects: a monograph on Bonifacio de' Pitati co-authored with Peter Humfrey, a co-edited collection of papers (in conjunction with Wolfgang Marx) which includes his own study of the tomb monument of John Donne in St. Paul's Cathedral, London; a forthcoming Art Bulletin article on the celebrated Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester of 1857. |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : John Donne Monument Project Start Date / End Date : 27-OCT-08 / 26-OCT-09 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Dublin Death Studies 1 Start Date / End Date : 01-MAY-12 / 31-OCT-13 |
Recent Postgraduates
| Dr Audrey Nicholls - title of PhD thesis: 'Temptation and Transgression: Images of Christ and Adulteress, and of Susanna and the Elders, in Renaissance Venice'. Accepted 2011. |
Current Postgraduate Students
| Corinna Ricasoli, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
| Jessica Fahy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
Book Chapters
| Cottrell, Philip (2011) 'Bonifacio de' Pitati, Il ritrovamento di Mosè (catalogue entry)' In: E.M. Dal Pozzolo, R. Dorigo, & M.P. Pedani (eds). Venezia e l'Egitto. Milan: Skira. [Details] |
| Cottrell, Philip; (2009) 'Painters in Practice - Tintoretto, Bassano and the Studio of Bonifacio de'Pitati' In: Miguel Falomir (eds). Tintoretto - Actas del Cogresso. Madrid: Prado Publications. [Details] |
| Cottrell, Philip; (2007) 'Poor Substitutes - Imaging Disease and Vagrancy in Renaissance Venice' In: Tom Nichols (eds). Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe: Picturing the Social Margins. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Details] |
| Cottrell, Philip; (2007) 'The Disciple of Experience - Leonardo's Life and Art in the Context of the Codex Leicester' In: Leonardo da Vinci - The Codex Leicester. London: Scala. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Philip Cottrell; (2011) ''More like himself than he is in reality: Portraits of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael and Titian.''. Venezia Cinquecento, anno XX (n.39):37-71. [Details] |
| Cottrell, P., & Mulcahy, R.,; (2007) 'Succeeding Titian: Parrasio Micheli and Venetian Painting at the Court of Philip II'. The Burlington Magazine, CXLIX :232-245. [Details] |
| P. Cottrell; (2005) ''Vice, Vagrancy & Villa Culture - Bonifacio de' Pitati's Dives and Lazarus in its Venetian Context''. Artibus Et Historiae, XXVI (51):131-150. [Details] |
Philip Cottrell (2005) ''The Age of Titian: Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections, National Galleries of Scotland, 5 August - 5 December 2004 (exhibition review)''. Renaissance Studies, 19 (3):400-405.  [Details] |
| Cottrell, P.,; (2004) 'Unfinished Business: Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto and the Early Career of Bonifacio de' Pitati'. Venezia Cinquecento, XIV, n. 27 :5-34. [Details] |
| P Cottrell; (2004) ''The Art of Noise: The Cries of London and Dublin' (Book Review)'. Eighteenth-Century Studies, XXXVII (4):686-689. [Details] | |||||||||
| P. Cottrell; (2002) ''The Artistic Parentage of Palma Giovane''. The Burlington Magazine, CXLIV :289-291. [Details] | |||||||||
| Cottrell, P.; (2000) 'Corporate Colours: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi'. Art Bulletin, LXXXII :658-678. [Details] | |||||||||
| Cottrell, P.; (1998) 'A New Palma Vecchio in the Chapter Hall Museum, Birgu Some Observations on the Domestic Sacra Conversazione in Venice'. Melita Historica, 3 :239-252. [Details] | |||||||||
| Cottrell, P.; (1997) 'Bonifacio and the Young Tintoretto'. Inferno, IV :17-36. [Details] | |||||||||
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Honours and Awards
| Year: 2012. Title: NUI - Publication Grant - 'Art Treasures of Great Britain and America' |
| Year: 2012. Title: UCD Seed Funding - Dublin Death Studies 1 (in conjunction with Wolfgang Marx) |
| Year: 1994. Title: The Donal Byrne History of Art Essay Prize (University of Aberdeen) |
| Year: 1999. Title: The Gray Essay Prize (University of St. Andrews) |
| Year: 1996. Title: The University of St. Andrews Art History Research Scholarship |
| Year: 1997. Title: The Russell Trust of St. Andrews |
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| Year: 1997. Title: The Carnegie Trust for Scotland |
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| Year: 2000. Title: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York |
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| Year: 2008. Title: Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences |
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| Year: 2009. Title: Royal Irish Academy |
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Associations
| Association: Irish Association of Art Historians, Function/Role: Committee Member |
Conference Contributions
| Philip Cottrell; (2009) 'A Brush With Nobility - Titian, Castiglione and the Courtly Painter in Renaissance Venice'. [Invited Oral Presentation], A public lecture delivered at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, as part of a series to support the exhibition 'Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice', Louvre, Paris , 19-OCT-09 - 19-OCT-09. |
| Philip Cottrell; (2010) 'The Donne Monument in St Paul's Cathedral, London'. [Invited Lecture], Death Commemoration and Memory, Edinburgh University, June 2010, University of Edinburgh , 24-JUN-10 - 25-JUN-10. |
| Philip Cottrell; (2010) 'Titian's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione'. [Chaired Session], Public lecture delivered at the National Gallery of Ireland, November 2010, National Gallery of Ireland , 12-NOV-10 - 12-NOV-10. |
| Philip Cottrell; (2011) ' The Death of St Augustine in Context'. [Chaired Session], Public lecture delivered at the National Gallery of Ireland (part of Innovation Dublin), National Gallery of Ireland , 13-NOV-11 - 13-NOV-11. |
| Philip Cottrell (2011) 'Losing your Head: Decapitation in the Work fo Caravaggio and his Follwers'. [Invited Lecture], Lecture given at Dublin City University, DCU , 17-NOV-11 - 17-NOV-12. |
| Philip Cottrell (2012) ''Painting Poetry': Bonifacio de' Pitati's Triumphs of Petrarch'. [Invited Lecture], Art in 16thc Venice: In Honour of Prof. Peter Humfrey, University of St Andrews, University of St Andrews , 03-MAY-12 - 05-MAY-12. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell (2012) 'Venetian Renaissance Master: Titian'. [Invited Lecture], Public lecture delivered at the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland , 02-FEB-12 - 02-OCT-12. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2009) 'John Donne, Undone, Redone - John Donne's Memorial Monument at St Paul's Cathedral, London.'. [Invited Lecture], Death, Burial and the Afterlife Lecture Series, University College Dublin, March 2009, UCD , 25-MAR-09 - 25-MAR-09. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2007) 'Leonardo's Life and Art in the Context of the Codex Leicester'. [Invited Lecture], Chester Beatty Library Dublin, July 2007. Delivered in two parts as part of a lecture series designed to support the exhibition of Leonardo's Codex Leicester, Chester Beatty Library Dublin , 01-JUL-07 - 14-JUL-07. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2007) 'Painters in Practice - Tintoretto, Jacopo Bassano and the Studio of Bonifacio de' Pitati'. [Invited Lecture], Jacopo Tintoretto - Congresso Internacional, Museo del Prado, Madrid, February 2007, Madrid, Prado , 26-FEB-07 - 26-FEB-07. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2004) 'Vile Bodies - Imaging Disease in Sixteenth Century Venice'. [Invited Lecture], Guest lecture delivered at the Irish Association of Art Historians in September 2004, Irish Association of Art Historians , 14-SEP-04 - 14-SEP-04. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2003) 'Guess Who's [Not] Coming to Dinner? - Portrayals of Dives and Lazarus in Sixteenth-Century Venice'. [Invited Lecture], \i Picturing Poverty Images of the Outcast in Early Modern Europe0 -0 conference at the University of Aberdeen, May 2003, University of Aberdeen , 03-MAY-03 - 03-MAY-03. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2003) 'Titian Triumphant - Titian and his Early Rivals'. [Invited Lecture], Guest lecture delivered at the invitation of the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, January, 2003. (A revised version of this paper was given as part of the Studies in Art0 lecture series at the Medical Society of London, February 2003), National Gallery of Ireland , 29-JAN-03 - 29-JAN-03. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2002) 'A Three Pipe Problem ¿ Connoisseurship and Epistemology in the Age of Morelli and Conan Doyle'. [Invited Lecture], Guest Lecture at the University of East Anglia, February, 2002, University of East Anglia , 06-FEB-02 - 06-FEB-02. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2002) 'The Corporate Image - State Sponsored Art at the Venetian Treasury'. [Invited Lecture], Guest Lecture given at the Courtauld Institute, London, November, 2002, Courtauld Institute, London, , 01-NOV-02 - 01-NOV-02. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (2000) ¿Et in Arcadia Ego ¿ Titian and the Invention of the Pastoral Sacra Conversazione¿. [Invited Lecture], \i Body and Soul0 - The Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians,0 University of Edinburgh, April 2000, University of Edinburgh , 01-APR-00 - 01-APR-00. | |||||||||
| Philip Cottrell; (1999) 'The Pastoral Sacra Conversazione in Renaissance Venice'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Scottish Society for Renaissance Studies, University of Stirling, October 1999.0, see above , 01-OCT-99 - 01-OCT-99. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : Irish Association of Art Historians |
Employment
| Employer: University of Aberdeen Position: Lecturer in History of Art |
| Employer: Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College Position: Lecturer in Visual Arts |
| Employer: University College Dublin Position: Lecturer in History of Art |
Education
| Year 2001 Institution: University of St Andrews Qualification: PhD Subject: |
| Year 1995 Institution: University of Aberdeen Qualification: MA Subject: |
Outreach Activities
| Philip Cottrell frequently lectures at the National Gallery of Ireland. He has annually contributed to the lectures associated with the exhibiton of the Turner watercolours each January. Other recent lectures have dealt with the development of 16thc Venetian painting, Post Impressionism, the Romantic movement, and Titian's portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. Each year he also runs courses for UCD Adult education on subjects such as Caravaggio, Michelangelo and renaissance painting in Venice. |
Other Activities
| Radio broadcast: interviewed on RTE's Lyric FM for 'Culturefile', 11th November 2011 in connection with a painting in the National Gallery of Ireland, 'Scenes from the Life of St Augustine'. |
Internal Collaborators
| Dr Wolfgang Marx, School of Music, UCD. Title of project: Dublin Death Studies 1. |
Teaching Philosophy
| Modules taught include The Myth of Venice (Art in Renaissance Venice); Venice in the Age of Palladio; Caravaggio and Caravaggism; Art and Death in Early Modern Europe; Theory and Practice in the Age of Vasari. He has also delivered public lectures on Turner, Constable, Leonardo da Vinci and Post Impressionism at the National Gallery and elsewhere. He runs several adult education courses also dealing with Renaissance and Baroque art. |
Modules Coordinated
| 201200 AH40380 Art History: The Myth of Venice |
| 201200 AH10050 Art History: European Art 1 |
| 201200 AH10080 Art History: Art in Europe 1 |
| 201200 AH10100 Art History: Studies in European Art 1 |