Judith Colton is an American
historian of art who is a professor emerita at
Yale University. One of her best known works is The Parnasse Franc̈ois: Titon Du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius (1979), a study of
Évrard Titon du Tillet.
Background
Colton did her undergraduate studies at
Smith College, graduating in 1963, and earned master's and doctoral degrees from the
Institute of Fine Arts at
New York University in 1965 and 1974 respectively. She joined the Yale faculty in 1973, and retired in 2006.[1]
She was a long-term companion of English art historian
Michael Kitson, who died in 1998.[2]
Works
In the 1970s, Colton conducted research into
Queen Caroline and British aristocracy, and published papers such as "Kent's Hermitage for Queen Caroline at Richmond" in Architectura (1974),[3] and "Merlin's Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda" in Eighteenth-Century Studies (1976).[4]
One of her best known works is The Parnasse Franc̈ois: Titon Du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius (1979), a study of
Évrard Titon du Tillet.[5]
In 1987 she was a contributor to the book A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America: 1650-1750, which included commentary on late Baroque painter and printmaker
Luca Giordano.[6]
Selected publications
"The Endymion Myth and Poussin's Detroit Painting", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 30: 426–431, 1967,
doi:
10.2307/750763,
JSTOR750763.
"Kent's hermitage for Queen Caroline at Richmond", Architectura, 4: 181–191, 1974
^Goldstein, Carl (June 1981), "The Parnasse Francois. Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius", Review, The Art Bulletin, 63 (2): 342–344,
doi:
10.2307/3050132,
JSTOR3050132.
^Levitine, George (1980), "The Parnasse Francois: Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius", Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 13 (4): 462–466,
doi:
10.2307/2738098,
JSTOR2738098.
^"Judith Colton. The Parnasse François: Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius", Reviews of Books, The American Historical Review, 85 (3): 637, 1980,
doi:
10.1086/ahr/85.3.637
^Rabiner, Donald (1990), "A Taste for Angels. Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650–1750", Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 24 (1): 123–126,
doi:
10.2307/2738992,
JSTOR2738992.