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Full Name: Norton, Charles Eliot

Gender: male

Date Born: 1827

Date Died: 1908

Place Born: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Place Died: Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): Medieval (European)

Institution(s): Harvard University

Overview

First Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University; influential mentor for a generation of art historians. Norton was born to a wealthy Boston family with strong intellectual interests. His father, Andrews Norton (1786-1853), was a Unitarian theologian and professor of sacred literature at Harvard. The younger Norton attended Harvard University, graduating with an A. B. in 1846. After college he toured India and Europe, particularly England between 1849-51. With his various attempts at business a failure, he returned to Europe in 1855, remaining there until 1857. In Switzerland, Norton met John Ruskin,  the art critic and historian whose writings deeply affected him. Norton returned to focus on writing and literature. He edited the North American Review between 1864-68 and co-founded The Nation in 1865. His articles at this time demonstrated both a knowledge in art history and archaeology as well as literature. In 1859 he published his Notes of Study and Travel in It

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The Beginnings of Art History at Harvard, Part 1: Charles Eliot Norton, John Ruskin, and the Teaching of Art History

In this first of two articles about the foundation of art history as a discipline at Harvard—leading the way among U.S. institutions—Marjorie B. Cohn explores the influence of John Ruskin’s scholarship and teaching on the curriculum.

On January 15, 1874, scholar Charles Eliot Norton wrote a letter to his cousin Charles William Eliot, the young president of Harvard who was then revamping the college curriculum in favor of specialty departments and elective courses. Norton set down on paper what must have been the summary of several conversations:

In a complete scheme of University studies the history of the Fine Arts in their relation to social progress, to general culture, and to literature should find a place, not only because architecture, sculpture and painting have been, next to literature, the most important modes of expression of the sentiments, beliefs and opinions of men, but also because they afford evidence, often in a more striking and direct manner than literature itself . . . and thus become the most effective aids to the proper understanding of history.[1]  

President Eliot then appointed Norton as inaugural lecturer in the new Departme