Editing Kenneth Clark (section)

==Honours and legacy==
===Awards and memorials===
State and other honours received by Clark included [[Order of the Bath|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] in 1938; [[Fellow of the British Academy]], 1949; [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]], 1959; [[life peerage|life peer]], 1969;{{refn|As Baron Clark of Saltwood in the County of Kent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44904/page/7690|title=Barony of the United Kingdom – Sir Kenneth Mackenzie Clark|publisher=The London Gazette|date=25 July 1969|access-date=8 December 2020|archive-date=21 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021184414/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44904/page/7690|url-status=live}}</ref>|group=n}} [[Companion of Literature]], 1974; and [[Member of the Order of Merit]], 1976. Overseas honours included Commander of the [[Legion of Honour]], France; Commander of the [[Order of the Lion of Finland]]; and the [[Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria|Order of Merit]], Austria.<ref name=who>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U162932 "Clark, Baron"], ''Who Was Who'', online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, retrieved 14 June 2017 {{subscription required}}</ref>

Clark was elected a member or honorary member of the Conseil Artistique des Musées Nationaux of France; the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]; the [[American Institute of Architects]].  the [[Swedish Academy]]; the [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando|Spanish Academy]]; the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze|Florentine Academy]]; the [[Académie française]]; and the [[Institut de France]].<ref name=who/> He was awarded honorary degrees by the universities of [[University of Bath|Bath]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow]], [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[University of London|London]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield]], [[University of Warwick|Warwick]], [[University of York|York]], and in the US [[Columbia University|Columbia]] and [[Brown University|Brown]] universities.<ref name=who/> He was an honorary fellow of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] and the [[Royal College of Art]].<ref name=who/> Other honours and awards included Serena Medal of the [[British Academy]] (for Italian Studies); the Gold Medal and Citation of Honour of [[New York University]]; and the US [[National Gallery of Art]] Medal.<ref name=who/>
Clark's old school, Winchester College, holds an annual art history speaking competition for the Kenneth Clark Prize. The winner of the competition is awarded a golden Lord Clark Medal sculpted by a fellow [[Old Wykehamist]], [[Anthony Smith (sculptor)|Anthony Smith]].<ref>[http://www.winchestercollege.org/kenneth-clark-prize "Kenneth Clark Prize"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031085303/http://www.winchestercollege.org/kenneth-clark-prize |date=31 October 2016 }}, and [http://www.winchestercollege.org/kenneth-clark-prize-final-thw "Kenneth Clark Prize Final"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031085037/http://www.winchestercollege.org/kenneth-clark-prize-final-thw |date=31 October 2016 }}, Winchester College, retrieved 30 October 2016</ref> At the [[Courtauld Institute]] in London, the lecture theatre is named in Clark's honour.<ref>[http://courtauld.ac.uk/about/venue-hire/lecture-and-meeting-spaces "Lecture and Meeting Spaces"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611040320/http://courtauld.ac.uk/about/venue-hire/lecture-and-meeting-spaces |date=11 June 2017 }}, Courtauld Institute, retrieved 17 June 2017</ref>

===Reputation===
In 2014 [[Tate|the Tate]] held the "Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation" exhibition, highlighting Clark's impact "as one of the most influential figures in British art of the twentieth century". The exhibition, drawing on works from Clark's personal collection and many other sources, examined his role as "a patron and collector, art historian, public servant and broadcaster&nbsp;... bringing art in the twentieth century to a more popular audience".<ref name=tate>[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/kenneth-clark-looking-civilisation "Kenneth Clark – Looking for Civilisation"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106185530/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/kenneth-clark-looking-civilisation |date=6 January 2017 }}, The Tate, retrieved 27 June 2917</ref> The BBC called him "arguably the most influential figure in 20th century British art".<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/kenneth-clark-civilisation "BBC celebrates Sir Kenneth Clark and his iconic series Civilisation"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510015944/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/kenneth-clark-civilisation |date=10 May 2017 }}, BBC, retrieved 28 June 2017</ref> Clark's early and continuing insistence that Victorian architecture and art should be considered seriously contributed to a gradual change in public taste.<ref name=mw/> The art historian Ayla Lepine writes that Clark's writing and his "perennial commitment to John Ruskin's output and significance" made an important contribution to the re-evaluation of Victorian art and architecture.<ref>Lepine, Ayla. "The Persistence of Medievalism: Kenneth Clark and the Gothic Revival", ''Architectural History'', Volume 57, 2014, pp. 324–325</ref>

Clark knew that his broadly traditional view of art would be anathema to the [[Marxist]] element in the artistic world, and was unsurprised when he was attacked by younger critics, notably [[John Berger]], in the 1970s.<ref name=h16/> Clark's reputation among critics in the twenty-first century is higher for his books and television series than for his consistency as a collector. At the time of the Tate celebration of Clark in 2014, the critic [[Richard Dorment]] commented that both in his public and private capacity Clark made many fine purchases but also many errors. In addition to the [[Andrea Previtali]] ''Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues'', Dorment lists works misattributed by Clark to Michelangelo, [[Pontormo]], [[Adam Elsheimer|Elsheimer]] and [[Claude Lorrain|Claude]], and a Seurat and a [[Corot]] that were genuine but poor examples of the artists' work.<ref name=dtel/>

Among his books is what Dorment has called "the best introduction to the art of Leonardo da Vinci ever written".<ref name=dtel/> Piper singles out, in addition to the Leonardo monograph, Clark's ''Piero della Francesca'' (1951), ''The Nude'' (1956, based on his Mellon lectures in Washington in 1953), and ''Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance'' (1966 from his Wrightsman lectures in New York).<ref name=dnb/> The critic Jackie Wullschlager wrote in 2014 that it was as a writer rather than a collector that Clark excelled: "unrivalled since Ruskin for lucidity, erudition, moral conviction".<ref>Wullschlager, Jackie. "A Question of Taste", ''The Financial Times'', 24 May 2014, p. 13</ref> James Hall, in ''The Guardian'', expressed a similar view, calling Clark "the most seductive writer on art since Ruskin and [[Walter Pater|Pater]]&nbsp;... "<ref name=hall>Hall, James. [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/may/16/kenneth-clark-arrogant-snob-saviour-art "Kenneth Clark: arrogant snob or saviour of art?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329125304/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/may/16/kenneth-clark-arrogant-snob-saviour-art |date=29 March 2017 }}, ''The Guardian'', 16 May 2014</ref> In ''The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture'' [[James Stevens Curl]] ranks Clark higher than Ruskin as a writer: "Although he claimed Ruskin was a major influence on his thought, he delivered his own messages with lucidity, elegance, and aplomb, never wallowing in purple prose or exaggeration (faults painfully evident in Ruskin's work)".<ref>Curl and Wilson, p. 174</ref> Hall concludes, "Today, when most art historians write as joylessly as lawyers and accountants, such verve is sorely needed".<ref name=hall/>