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Dennis V. Geronimus

Associate Professor of Art History
Ph.D. 2001 (history of art), Oxford University; Diploma in the History of Art (with Distinction), Oxford, 1996; B.A. 1995 (summa cum laude in art history and English), Williams College.


Areas of Research/Interest: Renaissance art, crosscurrents between the art of Italy and Northern Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

External Affiliations: Member, College Art Association; Renaissance Society of America; The Society for Renaissance Studies, U.K.; The Leonardo da Vinci Society; Italian Art Society; The Medieval and Renaissance Center (MARC), NYU; International Council of Museums (ICOM).

Fellowships/Honors: Golden Dozen Award for Outstanding Teaching, NYU, 2004; ACLS / Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, 2004-2005; Chester Dale Research Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-2001 and 2004-2005; The Society for Renaissance Studies Fellowship, Warburg Institute, London, 2000; Dutch Institute for Art History Fellowship, Florence, Italy, 1999; Phi Beta Kappa.

Select Publications:

Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange, Yale University Press, 2006.  

Setting Sail for the Vulcan Isle: Piero di Cosimo's Jason and Queen Hypsipyle with the Women of Lemnos and its Companion Scenes (New York: Wildenstein & Co., Inc., 2005).  

"Children of Mercury: New Light on the Members of the Florentine Company of St. Luke (c.1475–c.1525)," co-authored with Louis A. Waldman, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 47 (2003), pp. 118–58.  

"Arbitrating Artistry: The Case of Domenico di Michelino in 1483," The Burlington Magazine 144 (November 2002), pp. 691–94.  

"Two Mythological Panels by Bartolomeo di Giovanni Revisited," in Italian Journeys: Discovering a Taste for the South, Hall & Knight Ltd. exh. cat., Maastricht (March 2001), pp. 50–58.  

"The Birth Date, Early Life, and Career of Piero di Cosimo," Art Bulletin 82 (March 2000), pp. 164–70.