Iain Pears

Iain Pears ( born in 1955 in Coventry, West Midlands ) is an English art historian and writer.

Life

The school graduated Pears at Warwick School, Warwick. Subsequently, he studied art history and literature, among others, at Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford University.

Upon successful completion of this study was Pears journalist with the BBC, the Channel 4 and ZDF. Between 1982 and 1990 he worked as a correspondent for the Reuters news agency in France, Italy, the United States and Great Britain. 1987 appointed the Yale University Pears for Getty Fellow.

In addition to his journalistic work with time was a literary oeuvre, which has been repeatedly praised by the audience as well as from the official literary criticism.

Works (selection)

Fiction

  • The Raphael Affair. Gollancz, London, 1990, ISBN 0-575-04727-5. The Raphael coup. Detective novel. Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-25586-8.
  • The Titian Committee. Detective novel. Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-15587-1.
  • The Bernini bust. Detective novel. Piper, Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-492-15627-4.
  • Death of Socrates. Detective novel. Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-25711-9.
  • Giotto's handwriting. Novel. Heyne, München 1999, ISBN 3-453-15881-4 ..
  • Caravaggio's heirs. Novel. Diana -Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-17714-2.
  • Diabolical deception. Detective novel. Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-63426-0 (former title The immaculate deception ).
  • The Portrait. Riverhead Books, New York 2005, ISBN 1-57322-298-4. The portrait. Novel. Earthscan, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-63443-1.
  • Scipio's dream. Novel. Knaur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-62667-5
  • The judgment at the crossroads. Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-43204-5.
  • After Browne. In: London Review of Books, Vol 33 (2011 ), No. 6, pp. 12, ISSN 0260-9592
  • In sum. Corporate support for art. In: Art in America, Vol 76 (1988 ), No. 7, pp. 55-59, ISSN 0004-3214
  • Partronage and Learning in the Republic Virtuoso. John Talman in Italy, 1709-1712. In: Oxford Art Journal, Vol 5 (1982 ), No. 1, pp. 24-30, ISSN 0142-6540
  • The Discovery of Painting. The Growth of Interest in the Arts in England, 1680-1768. University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1991, ISBN 0-300-03829-1.
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