About Paul Holberton
Paul Holberton publishing
Paul Holberton publishing aims to produce art books to a consistently high standard, both of production and of editorial. We work with museums, galleries and institutions up and down the UK, in Europe and in Canada, for whom we publish catalogues, usually but not only exhibition catalogues. These museums include the Museo del Prado, Madrid, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Groeningemuseum, Bruges; the Courtauld Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery and The Wallace Collection, London; Gallery Oldham, Oldham; the Hunterian Musuem, Glasgow; the National Trust, the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor; and several more.
We also publish our own books, such as Venice: Extraordinary Maintenance.
Paul Holberton as an editor
Paul Holberton has worked and continues to work as an editor for the National Gallery, London, and the National Galleries of Scotland, and specializes in the redaction of translated texts - from Italian, French, German and Spanish - for several museums in Europe, including the Oskar Reinhart Sammlung, Winterthur; the Museo del Prado, Madrid; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. While a partner of Merrell Holberton Publishers (now Merrell Publishers), which he co-founded in 1993, and since 1999 as Paul Holberton publishing he has edited and redacted a great variety of books on art for a great number of museums and other publishers - besides producing several such books a year. He also translates from Italian.
Paul Holberton publishing: distribution and representation
Distribution is worldwide. We warehouse for the United Kingdom and Europe with Bookpoint Ltd (Abingdon) and for the United States and the Far East with University of Washington Press, Seattle. Representation is handled for the UK and Europe by Casemate (01635 231 091) and for the United States and Japan by University of Washington Press (206 543 4050). Increasingly we distribute and represent on behalf of a number of museums and galleries (see our printed catalogue; to obtain a catalogue, Contact Us).
Paul Holberton as an authority on Giorgione
In his PhD, for which he studied at the Warburg Institute, London, Paul Holberton studied the iconography of Giorgione, which took him into the study especially of pastoral literature. He has published the following articles on Giorgione:
'Giorgione's sfumato', in Giorgione Entmythisiertm papers arising from conference held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, on the occasion of the Giorgione exhibition, 2005, 2008
Review of Giorgione exhibitions in Venice and Vienna, Apollo, May 2004
'To Loosen the Tongue of Mute Poetry: Giorgione's Self-Portrait as "David" as a Paragone Demonstration', in Poetry on Art. Renaissance to Romanticism, ed. Thomas Frangenberg, Donington (Shaun Tyas/Paul Watkins), 2003
'La critica e fortuna di Giorgione: il conflitto delle fonti', in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Cinquecento, M. Lucco (ed.), vol. 3, Milan 1999
'Giorgione's Tempest or "little landscape with the storm with the gypsy": more on the gypsy, and a reassessment', Art History, vol. 18, no. 3, September 1995
'Varieties of giorgionismo', in New Interpretations of Venetian Renaissance Painting, F. Ames-Lewis (ed.), London 1994
'The Pastorale or Fete champetre in the Early Sixteenth Century', in Titian 500 (Studies in the History of Art 45), Washington, D.C., 1993
'Clutching False Gods': Review of Salvatore Settis, Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject, Art History, vol. 14, no. 1, 1991
'Poetry and Painting in the Time of Giorgione', PhD diss., Warburg Institute, University of London, 1989
Review of Christian Hornig, Giorgiones Spaetwerk, Munich 1987, in The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, July 1988
'La bibliotechina e la raccolta d'arte di Zuanantonio Venier', Atti dell'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, CXLIV, 1985-6, Classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti, pp. 172-93
Paul Holberton: publications on the Renaissance more generally
Review of Alastair Fowler, Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Art and Literature (Oxford 2003), The Burlington Magazine, December 2003
'The Pipes in Titian's Three Ages of Man', Apollo, CLVII, no. 492, February 2003
'Classicism', 'Renaissance', and other entries in The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. H. Brigstocke, Oxford 2001
'Notes on Giulio Campagnola's prints', Print Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, 1996
South Italy: A Traveller's Guide, London (John Murray) 1992
Palladio's Villas: Life in the Renaissance Countryside, London (John Murray) 1990
'Instead of iconology: virtuosity (mostrare l'arte) and symmetry (pendants) in Italian Renaissance Art', Word and Image, IV, 1, 1988
'The Choice of Texts for the Camerino Pictures', in Bacchanals by Titian and Rubens: Papers given at a Symposium in Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, March 1987, Stockholm 1987
'Battista Guarino's Catullus and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne', The Burlington Magazine, CXXVIII, May 1986
'Of Antique and Other Figures: Metaphor in Early Renaissance Art', Word and Image, I, 1, 1985
'Botticelli's Hypnerotomachia in the National Gallery, London', Illinois Classical Studies, IX, 2, 1984
'Botticelli's Primavera: 'che volea s'intendesse', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XLV, 1982
Current research Paul Holberton is currrently writing a book on the history of Arcadia in art and literature, Land of Human Happiness.