Avery, Charles (Art historian) (Personal Name)

Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n 50029947

His Michelangelo e il Cinquecento, 1968.

Bernini, c1997: title page (Charles Avery) back cover (Charles Avery is a specialist in European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English and Flemish. He is a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He was Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and a Director of Christie's, and since 1990 he has been an independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer.)

connectedcambridge.com, "Michelangelo bronzes discovered," 12 April 2015, viewed 13 May 2016: (Dr. Charles Avery, independent art historian, Cambridge, UK)

Association of Art Historians, July 12, 2016: (Charles Avery (b. 1940) was Honorary Secretary of the AAH from 1976-1979. He studied Classics and History of Art at Cambridge, followed by a postgraduate diploma from the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1965. He joined the AAH in its founding year when he was Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the V&A Museum, where he held post from 1965 to 1979. Director of Sculpture at Christie's for over a decade, he became an independent art historian in 1990, publishing widely on European sculpture, including Giambologna: the Complete Sculpture (1988), Donatello: An Introduction (1994), Bernini, Genius of the Baroque (1997).) http://www.aah.org.uk/projects/oral-history/interviews/interview-with-charles-avery