Henry Tudor-Pole

PhD supervisor: Professor Alison Wright
Working title: The Adriatic Quattrocento and the art of the Crivelli
 

My PhD aims to examine the work of the painter brothers Carlo and Vittore Crivelli in terms of the affordances and exigencies of the geographical and geopolitical place in which they lived, namely the northern half of the Adriatic rim in the late fifteenth century. These artists’ work, especially Carlo’s, has seen a resurgence in interest in recent years, with scholars productively examining its interaction with the culture of the Italian region of the Marche and its intersection with wider themes of Italian Renaissance art. However, less attention has been paid to the importance of the artists’ time in Dalmatia and to their relationship with the Adriatic as a region in its own right. Taking the Adriatic as a network whose interactions were primarily facilitated by sea travel, a cheaper, quicker and safer means than travel by land, the PhD will explore the extent to which attention to this layered, contested, multiconfessional and multiethnic place can inform our understanding of these artists’ extraordinary work, and vice versa.

My PhD is funded by a Wolfson Scholarship. 

Teaching

• Harris Westminster Sixth Form, Art History A Level, 2023-present
• Art History Link-Up, Art History A Level, 2022-present

Awards 

• Wolfson Scholarship, UCL, 2024
• Dean's List, UCL, 2022
• Fer-Garb Scholarship, UCL, 2021
• St John's Exchange Studentship, Oxford and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2016-17
• Casberd Scholarship, Oxford, 2015
• Reaktion Books extended essay prize, Oxford, 2015
• Moritz-Heyman Scholarship, Oxford, 2014
   

Contact: henry.tudor-pole.21@ucl.ac.uk

RPS Profile

Qualifications 

• BA History of Art, St John's College, Oxford 2014-2018 (first)
• MA History of Art, UCL 2021-2022 (distinction)