Frederick Hartt was an Italian Renaissance scholar, author and professor of art history.
10 Facts About Frederick Hartt
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Frederick Hartt's books include History of Italian Renaissance Art, Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel and The Renaissance in Italy and Spain.
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Frederick Hartt was involved with cataloging and repatriating artwork looted and stolen by the Third Reich during World War II.
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Frederick Hartt graduated from Columbia College in 1935 and received his PhD from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1950; the subject of his dissertation was Giulio Romano and the Palazzo del Te.
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From 1942 to 1946, during World War II, Frederick Hartt was an officer in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program of the US Army and received a Bronze Star.
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Frederick Hartt was made an honorary citizen of Florence, and was decorated with the Knight's Cross by the Italian government.
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Frederick Hartt was on the faculty of the art history department at Washington University in St Louis from 1949 to 1960, and from 1960 to 1967 he taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
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In 1969, Frederick Hartt published a textbook survey of Renaissance art, History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, which has been revised and reprinted numerous times.
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Frederick Hartt became a Professor Emeritus of the University of Virginia in 1984.
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In 1986 Frederick Hartt authenticated a plaster statue of a headless torso as an original by Michelangelo.