Andrew Ladis

Andrew Thomas Ladis (January 30, 1949 – December 2, 2007) was a Greek-born American art historian particularly known for his studies on early Italian Renaissance painting. His 1983 book, Taddeo Gaddi: A Critical Review and Catalogue Raisonné, was the first detailed study of Taddeo Gaddi in the English language. At time of his death he was the Franklin Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Biography Andrew Ladis was born in Athens, Greece. His parents, Thomas and Marina Ladis, emigrated to the United States when Ladis was a small boy and settled in Richmond, Virginia, where he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School. He received his BA in history (with Distinction) from the University of Virginia in 1970. After graduating, he briefly attended the University of Virginia Law School, but then transferred to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to study art history. He earned his MA in 1974 and PhD in 1978. His doctoral thesis was on the 14th century Italian painter Taddeo Gaddi. Ladis would later expand this dissertation into his first book, Taddeo Gaddi: A Critical Review and Catalogue Raisonné, the first detailed study of Gaddi in the English language. Ladis died of cancer in Athens, Georgia, on December 2, 2007, at the age of 58. He was survived by his partner of 37 years, William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art.

Papers from Ladis's 2006 Festschrift were published in The Historian's Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew Ladis (Georgia Museum of Art, 2009).

Selected bibliography Ladis was the general editor or co-editor of six volumes and series on art history, as well as authoring numerous scholarly articles and monographs and several books, including: Taddeo Gaddi: A Critical Review and Catalogue Raisonné (1983) The Brancacci Chapel, Florence (1993) Studies in Italian Art (2001) Victims and Villains in Vasari's Lives (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History) (2008) Giotto's "O": Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel (2008)

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