Career As Art Historian
Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and then the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He was later a visiting Professor at Indiana University, 1967/1968.
In the course of his career, Whitfield has organized art exhibitions and lectured at important museums around the world, including the Royal Academy, London and the Capitoline Museums Rome.
Whitfield has published on Baroque Art extensively since 1971, notably discovering Temps Calme by Nicolas Poussin in The Burlington Magazine in 1977 and organising and writing the catalogue of Painting in Naples 1606 – 1705, Caravaggio to Giordano held at the Royal Academy in 1982.
He has recently published 'Caravaggio's Eye' (Paul Holberton publishing) 2011
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