Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein (1924-2002) was an american art historian After receiving her AB from Vassar College in 1945, Ruth Olitsky enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, where she began a Master’s thesis on ‘San Giovanni dei Fiorentini: the Building History and Plans’ and in 1949 came to London, where she was supervised from the Institute by Rudolf Wittkower. Then she was awarded the doctorate in 1957, from the Courtauld Institute, for a thesis on ‘Pius II as Patron of Art, with Special Reference to the History of the Vatican’. In 1954 she had married Nicolai Rubinstein. From 1957 onwards she was a part-time assistant in the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute. Her special responsibility was the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. She also played a large part in arranging and recording its contents, as well as in the writing of her and Professor Bober’s indispensable Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture and in revising it for its second edition. From 1983, when computerization of the Census was undertaken with the aid of the Getty Art Information Program, she became its part-time Consultant.
In ricordo di Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein
CORTI, LAURA
2004-01-01
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Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein (1924-2002) was an american art historian After receiving her AB from Vassar College in 1945, Ruth Olitsky enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, where she began a Master’s thesis on ‘San Giovanni dei Fiorentini: the Building History and Plans’ and in 1949 came to London, where she was supervised from the Institute by Rudolf Wittkower. Then she was awarded the doctorate in 1957, from the Courtauld Institute, for a thesis on ‘Pius II as Patron of Art, with Special Reference to the History of the Vatican’. In 1954 she had married Nicolai Rubinstein. From 1957 onwards she was a part-time assistant in the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute. Her special responsibility was the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. She also played a large part in arranging and recording its contents, as well as in the writing of her and Professor Bober’s indispensable Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture and in revising it for its second edition. From 1983, when computerization of the Census was undertaken with the aid of the Getty Art Information Program, she became its part-time Consultant.
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