John Spike, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Spike

American art historian

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1951

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: art historian, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

John Thomas Spike (born November 8, 1951 in New York City) is an American art historian, curator, and author, specializing in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods.
He is also a contemporary art critic and past director of the Florence Biennale.
Spike earned his B.A.
at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and his M.A.
and Ph.D.
from Harvard.
His doctoral dissertation was a study of Mattia Preti, an important painter of the Caravaggio school whom Spike is a leading authority on.
In 1999, he was awarded honorary citizenship of Taverna, Italy, Preti's birthplace.
In recognition of his studies of two Knights of St.
John, Mattia Preti and Caravaggio, in 2013 HM Queen Elizabeth II appointed Spike to the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.