Richard George Mann (born 1949) is an American academic who is professor emeritus[1] of art at San Francisco State University. He is a specialist in the art of Spain.

Richard Mann
Born
Richard George Mann

1949 (age 74–75)
Academic background
EducationKalamazoo College (BA)
University of Minnesota (MA)
New York University (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplineSpanish art
InstitutionsSan Francisco State University

Early life and education

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Mann was born in 1949. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College in 1972, a Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1974, and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1982.[2]

Career

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Mann is a professor emeritus of art at San Francisco State University. He is a specialist in Spanish art. In 1986, he produced El Greco and his patrons: Three major projects, the first volume in the Cambridge Studies in the History of Art, in which he investigated three of El Greco's six major projects and the patrons responsible for them.[3]

With Jonathan Brown he prepared the volume on Spanish paintings of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries in the National Gallery of Art in their systematic catalogue series.[4][5]

Selected publications

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  • El Greco and his patrons: Three major projects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986.[3] ISBN 0521303923
  • Spanish paintings of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990. (With Jonathan Brown) (Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue)[5] ISBN 978-0521401074

References

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  1. ^ "Emeritus-Emerita Faculty < San Francisco State University".
  2. ^ Faculty Directory (M - Z). San Francisco State University. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Review: El Greco and his Patrons: Three Major Projects by Richard G. Mann" Review by Priscilla E. Muller, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 538-540.
  4. ^ Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries by Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann", review by James Clifton, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter, 1992), pp. 810-811.