John White (Art Historian) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Edward Clement Twarowski White, CBE is an English former art historian and was formerly the head of the Department of History of Art at the University College London. In 1992 he was made an Honorary Fellow of UCL. He is also the author of a number of books on Medieval and Renaissance art, as well as on the artist Duccio of Siena. White went straight from Ampleforth School to the Royal Air Force, where he became a Spitfire flying instructor based in Canada. After the war he came back to the United Kingdom and became a student of Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and who was keeper of the Queen's art collection and subsequently exposed as a Russian spy. White has a number of mentions in Blunt's biography