Maryan Ainsworth, who often publishes as Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, is an American art historian, author and curator specializing in 14th, 15th and 16th century Northern European painting, particularly in Early Netherlandish painting.
She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees at Oberlin College and her Ph.D. at Yale University. She has spent her entire forty-year career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where since 2002 she has served as the Curator of Early Netherlandish, French, and German Painting in the European Paintings Department. In this position, and previously as Senior Research Fellow in the Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Department, she has specialized in an interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of Northern Renaissance paintings, uniting technical investigations with art historical inquiries.
MaryanAinsworth, who often publishes as Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, is an American art historian, author and curator specializing in 14th, 15th and 16th century...
Historiae, Volume 21, No. 41, 2000 Ainsworth, Maryan. "The Business of Art: Patrons, Clients and Art Markets". MaryanAinsworth, et al. (eds.), From Van Eyck...
contrast between the heavenly interior and sinful exterior. Art historian MaryanAinsworth notes that the triptych's dense imagery appears to be "a conflation...
historically. Timeline of Basel Christian Müller and Stephan Kemperdick, MaryanAinsworth; et al., Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532 (Munich:...
(1990), p. 15 Ainsworth (1994), p. 164 Upton (1990), p. 60 Ainsworth (1994), p. 105 Ainsworth (1994), p. 104 Upton (1990), p. 18 Ainsworth, Maryan. Petrus Christus:...
The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; MaryanAinsworth; et al, Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7913-3580-3, pp. 263–64....
surrounding elements within the overall design. The art historian MaryanAinsworth notes that this is typical of Christus's smaller panels, some which...
significance (1995), p. 75. Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; MaryanAinsworth; et al, Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Munich:...
small house altar is the artist's only surviving intact triptych. MaryanAinsworth on the basis of connoisseurship assessed that the external landscape...
260 Ainsworth, Maryan. Hans Memling as a Draughtsman, in Hans Memling: Essays (ed. Dirk De Vos). Ghent, 1994. ISBN 978-90-5544-030-6 Ainsworth, Maryan. From...
and his circle, who set the family amid extensive world landscapes. MaryanAinsworth contrasts this group, centred on the outward-looking international...
Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; MaryanAinsworth; et al., Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7913-3580-3, 124–32...
of the court of Queen Elizabeth. Vol. 1. Internet Archive preview MaryanAinsworth (1990). "'Paternes for Phiosioneamyes': Holbein's Portraiture Reconsidered"...
area was finished by workshop members or by followers after he died. MaryanAinsworth of the Metropolitan takes a different view. She highlights the close...
Women in World History. Oxford UP. pp. 142–43. ISBN 9780195148909. "MaryanAinsworth Appointed Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study...
29 Acre, 485 Rohlman, 440-441 Ainsworth, Maryan "The Business of Art: Patrons, Clients and Art Markets". Maryann Ainsworth, et al.(eds.) From van Eyck to...
The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; MaryanAinsworth; et al, Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7913-3580-3, pp. 263–64....
and this influence carries through to Gerard's piece. Art historian MaryanAinsworth describes the painting as a "devotional object for the veneration of...
of Art History. Ainsworth, Maryan W., ed. Intentional Alterations of Early Netherlandish Painting. April 20, 2009. Ainsworth, Maryan W., ed. Petrus Christus...
moments moving from morning to night. In a 2014 essay, art historian MaryanAinsworth compared the effects of Dalton Brown's water paintings to the carefully...
Petrus Christus worked from 1444 and died in Bruges in 1475 or 1476. MaryanAinsworth titles the painting Saint Eligius. Saint Eligius is unique among the...
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