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Associate Professor of Art History
Ph.D. 1992, M.A. 1982 (Art History), Columbia University; B.A. 1980 (Classics), Harvard University.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; history of prints and print culture.
Fellowships/Honors: James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, 2008; J. Clawson Mills Senior Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006-07; Frese Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2000-01; Premio Salimbeni, for The Altars and Altarpieces of New St. Peter's, 1998; visiting senior member, Linacre College, Oxford University, 1997-98; Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, 1994-95; summer research grant, American Philosophical Society, 1994; Premio Salvatore Rebecchini, for Specchio di Roma barocca, 1992; Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, 1984-86
Select Publications:
"Urbano VIII e il dilemma del portico del Pantheon," Bollettino d'arte (forthcoming)
"POMIS SUA NOMINA SERVANT: The Emblematic Thesis Prints of the Roman Seminary," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXX, 2008 (forthcoming)
"Bernini and the Pantheon Bronze," in Sankt Peter in Rom 1506-2006 (Internationaler Kongress, Bonn 22.-25. Februar 2006), eds. Georg Satzinger and Sebastian Schütze (forthcoming)
"Simon Vouet's Hesperus and the Mythopoetics of Praise," in Dialogues in Art History. A Symposium on the Occasion of the Center's 25th Anniversary (Washington DC 21-22 April 2005) [Studies in the History of Art], ed. Elizabeth Cropper (forthcoming)
"Apes philosophicae: Bees and the Divine Design in Barberini Thesis Prints," in I Barberini e la cultura europea del Seicento. Atti del convegno internazionale (Roma 7-11 dicembre 2004), ed. Lorenza Mochi Onori et al., Rome: De Luca, 2007 (in press)
"Villamena's Kangaroo," in Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt, eds. Christopher Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens, Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 381-98
"The Pentecostal Meaning of Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza," in Francesco Borromini 1599-1667. Atti del convegno internazionale (Roma 13-15 gennaio 2000), Rome and Milan: Electa, 2000, pp. 259-70
"Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano," in The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773, ed. John O'Malley et al., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, pp. 148-69
"Pietro da Cortona and the Roman Baroque Thesis Print," in Pietro da Cortona 1597-1669. Atti del convegno internazionale (Roma e Firenze, 12-15 novembre 1997), Rome and Milan: Electa, 1998, pp. 189-200
The Altars and Altarpieces of New St. Peter's. Outfitting the Basilica, 1621-1666, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
Specchio di Roma barocca. Una guida inedita del XVII secolo (with Joseph Connors), Rome: Edizioni dell' Elefante, 1991; paperback ed. 1996
"A newly discovered landscape by Pietro da Cortona," Burlington Magazine, CXXIX, 1987, pp. 73-77