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Podcast: Better Known
Episode: Catherine Whistler
Description: Professor Catherine Whistler discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
An art historian and curator, Catherine Whistler is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Fellow of St John’s College, and a Professor of the History of European Art, University of Oxford.
Born in Dublin, where she studied History of Art at UCD, she maintains strong links with Ireland and with Italy - especially Venice where she lived in the early 1980s. She has researched and written about Italian art, and has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean on a...