John Shearman
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John Kinder Gowran Shearman (pronounced "Sherman"; June 24, 1931 - August 11, 2003) was an English art historian who also taught in America. He was a specialist in Italian Renaissance who published several influential works, but whose expected major books on Quattrocento painting, for the Penguin/Yale History of Art series (already commissioned in 1984, and still a gap in the series in 2009), and on Raphael, never appeared.
His publications include:
- Mannerism, Baltimore, MD/Penguin, 1967;
- Andrea del Sarto Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965;
- The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983;
- Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance, [A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1988] Bollingen Series 35, 37. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992;
- Raphael's Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. London: Phaidon, 1972; edited, and Hirst, Michael. Wilde, Johannes.
- Michelangelo: Six Lectures. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978;
- The Vatican Stanze: Functions and Decorations. British Academy Italian Lecture 1971. London: Oxford University Press, 1972;
- Raphael in Early Modern Sources 1483-1602, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300099185
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