Mr Michael Liversidge
Emeritus Dean of Arts
BA (London), FSA, FRSA
Phone: +44 (0)777 190 0974
Email: m.j.h.liversidge@bristol.ac.uk
Michael Liversidge specialises in British art, principally from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular interests in landscape painting, landscaping and garden history, and classical receptions from the the Augustan to the Victorian periods. He co-founded the MA in Garden History, and initiated programmes with the British Institute of Florence and Richmond University in Virginia. He was Head of Department 1978-96, 2002-03 and 2004-06, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts 1996-2001. He has been a Resident Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven, and a Visiting Lecturer in History of Art at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Research interests
British art and architecture, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; eighteenth-century English landscape art and garden history.
Selected publications
- '"Blotting out Bristol": Humphry Repton's Royal Fort Red Book', Bristol (Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society), 2010 (forthcoming)
- 'Idols Ancient and Modern. "A Neapolitan Saint Manufactory" by Thomas Uwins', Palermo (Universita di Palermo), 2010 (forthcoming)
- Fra Angelico. The San Marco Panels. Dorchester (Duke's), 2007
- 'Playing the Past. Lawrence Alma - Tadema's Hypatia at the Haymarket Theatre, London, 1893.' In G.Barone and L. Figurelli (ed), Antico e Moderno, Palermo (Universita di Palermo, Studi e Vicerci, 49), 2007, pp. 85-97
- 'Romantic Redcliffe: Images and Imaginations.' In A. Heys (ed), Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Bristol, Bristol, 2005, 53-63
- '" ... a few foreign graces and airs ...": William Marlow's Grand Tour Landscapes'. In C. Hornsby (ed), The Impact of Italy: The Grand Tour and Beyond, London (British School at Rome), 2000, pp. 82-99.
- 'Virgil in Art'. In C.A. Martindale (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, Cambridge, 1997, pp. 91-103.
- (edited with Catharine Edwards) Imagining Rome. British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century, Bristol: City Museum and Art Gallery and London: Merrell Holberton, 1996.
- 'Two ceiling fragments from the Painted Chamber at Westminster Palace', Burlington Magazine, vol. 137, 1995, pp. 491-501 (with P. Binski).
- (edited with Jane Farrington) Canaletto & England, 1993, Birmingham: City Museum and Art Gallery and London: Merrell Holberton, 1993.
- 'Prelude to the Baroque. Isaac Fuller at Oxford', Oxoniensia, vol. 57, 1992, pp. 311-29.
- 'Pastoral and Rustic Themes. Landscape Prints by the Smiths of Chichester'. In The Smith Brothers of Chichester, Chichester: Pallant House Gallery, 1986, pp.35-47.
- 'Abingdon's "right goodly crosse of Stone"', Antiquaries Journal, vol. 63, 1983, pp. 315-25.
- William Hogarth's Bristol Altar-piece, Bristol: Bristol Branch, The Historical Association, 1980.
- The Bristol High Cross, Bristol: Bristol Branch, The Historical Association, 1978.
- 'An Elusive Minor Master. J.F. Nollekens and the Conversation Piece', Apollo, vol. 95, 1972, pp. 34-41.