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Bio

(1930-2007) Historian. James Beck was born in New Rochelle, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

James H. Beck

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline


1930

BIRTH

James H. Beck was born in New Rochelle, New York, on May 14, 1930.

1954

OTHER

Mr. Beck received a master's degree in studio art from New York University in 1954.

1956

OTHER

Mr. Beck worked at a factory in Woodstock, New York, from 1956 until 1958.

1963

OTHER

Mr. Beck received a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University in 1963. He later taught there for many years.

1979

LITWORK

Leonardo's Rules of Painting : An Unconventional Approach to Modern Art
Penguin Publishing Group
0670424277 / 9780670424276
Nonfiction.

1981

LITWORK

Italian Renaissance Painting
Harper & Row
978-0064303828
History.

1985

LITWORK

Doors of the Florentine Baptistery
Scala

History.

1993

LITWORK

Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal
John Murray

Nonfiction written with Michael Daley.

1993

LITWORK

Raphael: The Stanza Della Segnatura, Rome
George Braziller, Inc.
0807613142 / 9780807613146
Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

Raphael
Harry N. Abrams
978-0810937772
Biography.

1999

LITWORK

Three Worlds of Michelangelo
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
978-0393045246
Biography.

2000

LITWORK

Michelangelo : The Medici Chapel
Thames & Hudson
0500236909 / 9780500236901
Art history written with Antonio Paolucci.

2007

DEATH

James Beck died in Manhattan, New York, on May 26, 2007.

2007

LITWORK

From Duccio to Raphael. Connoisseurship in Crisis
European Press Academic Publishing
978-8883980435
Nonfiction.

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