Walter Fraser Oakeshott

Walter Fraser Oakeshott ( born November 11, 1903 in South Africa, † 13 October 1987 in Eynsham near Oxford ) was a British educational administrator and art historian.

First, a teacher, he was director of the Winchester College from 1946-54. From 1954-72 he was rector of Lincoln College ( Oxford), to 1962-64, Vice- Chancellor of Oxford University.

Oakeshott was actually amateur art historian, but has done especially in the field of English Romanesque book illumination Major and he was inducted into the Society of Antiquaries of London and the British Academy.

He was married to Noël Moon since 1928, a student of John D. Beazley. According to them, this so-called named the Oakeshott Painter.

Works

  • The artists of the Winchester Bible, London 1945
  • The sequence of English medieval art illustrated chiefly from illuminated mss, 650 - 1450, London 1950
  • Classical inspiration in medieval art. London 1959.
  • The mosaics of Rome: from the third to the fourteenth centuries, London in 1967 = The mosaics of Rome: from the third to the fourteenth century, Vienna, Leipzig 1969 = I mosaici di Roma, Milan 1969
  • Sigena. Romanesque paintings in Spain & the Winchester Bible artists, London 1972
  • The Two Winchester Bibles. Oxford 1981 ISBN 0-19-818235- X
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