Education

Princeton University     Williams College

Ph.D., Department of Art and Archaeology, 1999 M.A., Department of Art and Archaeology, 1995 B.A., magna cum laude, with departmental honors in Philosophy, 1991

Professional Background

University of Pennsylvania University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, July 2003 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Art, June 1999 - July 2003

Course Offerings, 2004-2005

ARTH 253/653 (fall) ARTH 752 (fall) ARTH 271/671 (spring) TBA (spring)

Art in the Time of Michelangelo Art of the Counter-Reformation Roman Baroque Art The Painter-Etcher

Previous Seminar Topics

Leonardo (Fall 2003) Sculpture and Site in Early Modern Italy (Spring 2004)

 
Upcoming Extramural Lectures and Seminars
 

“Spiritual Dissemblance in Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting,” University of California at Berkeley, September 2004 “Giambologna, Susini, and the apparecchio della forza,” University of Georgia, November 2004 Title to be announced, Getty Research Institute, January 2005 “The Idols of Sixtus V,” University of Delaware, March 2005

Current Projects
 

Magic and the Medium in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art (working title for book manuscript, in progress) Confrontations: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Sala del Maggior Consiglio (international symposium, sponsored by the Penn Center for Italian Studies, to be held March 2005) The Painter-Etcher, exhibition (co-curated by Madeleine Viljoen) to open 2006 “The Subject of Renaissance Mastery,” commissioned chapter for Projecting Identities: The Power of Material Culture, edited by Joanna Sofaer Derevenski (Blackwell New Interventions in Art History Series, in progress)

Selected Publications
 

Books written and edited: Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism (with Mary Pardo, co-editor), University of North Carolina Press (in press) Idols in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World (with Rebecca Zorach, co-editor), Ashgate (in progress) Sixteenth-century Italian Art: A Reader (working title), Blackwell Press (in progress) Articles: “Angel/Demon,” in Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, volume edited by Victor Stoichita (forthcoming) “Discernment and Animation from Leonardo to Lomazzo,” in Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Walter S. Melion and Reindert Falkenburg (forthcoming) “Origins of the Studio” (co-authored with Mary Pardo), in Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism (as above, forthcoming 2004) “Goldsmiths with Guns,” in Living Dangerously: On the Margins in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Nicholas Howe, University of Notre Dame Press (forthcoming) “Universality, Professionalism, and the Workshop: Cellini in Florence, 1545-62,” in Benvenuto Cellini 1500-1571: Sculptor, Goldsmith, and Writer, edited by Margaret Gallucci and Paolo Rossi (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 53-70 (in press) “The Medici Mercury and the Breath of Bronze,” in Studies in the History of Art: Large Bronzes of the Renaissance, edited by Peta Motture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003): 129-53 “‘Am Werkzeug erkennen wir den Künstler’: Waffen und Wappen in der Zeit Cellinis,” in Benvenuto Cellini. Kunst und Kunsttheorie im 16. Jahrhundert, edited by Alessandro Nova and Anna Schreurs (Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau, 2003): 39-58 “The Demonic Arts and the Origin of the Medium,” Art Bulletin 84 (2002): 621-40  “Cellinis Grabmal - Poetik und Publikum,” in Praemium Virtutis. Grabmonumente und Begräbniszeremoniell im Zeichen des Humanismus, edited by Joachim Poeschke et. al. (Münster: Rheima, 2002): 175-89 “Lasca, Allori and Judgment in the Montauti Chapel,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 45 (2001): 302-12 “The Figura sforzata: Modeling, Power, and the Mannerist Body,” Art History 24 (2001): 520-51 “Cellini’s Blood,” Art Bulletin 81 (1999): 216-35 “Benvenuto Cellini’s Designs for his Tomb,” Burlington Magazine 140 (1998): 798-803 “Gainsborough’s Diversions,” Word & Image 13 (1997): 366-76 Book Reviews: Alexander Nagel, Michelangelo and the Reform of Art  David Franklin, Painting in Renaissance Florence Reviewed in The Art Bulletin 85 (2003): 192-196 Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton, Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West Reviewed in The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature, October 2001 Exhibition Catalogue and Encyclopedia Entries: “Giambologna,” “Benvenuto Cellini,” Dictionary of Early Modern Europe, ed. George and Linda Bauer, Scribners (forthcoming) “Physiognomik,” “Akademie,” in Lexikon der Kunstwissenschaft, edited by Ulrich Pfisterer (Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2004): 6-9, 269-272 “Honorific Column,” “Benvenuto Cellini,” “Perseus,” in Encyclopedia of Sculpture, edited by Antonia Boström (Chicago: FitzroyDearborn Publishers, 2004): I, 271-75; II, 757-59 Entries on Elia Candido, Benvenuto Cellini, and Giambologna for L'ombra del genio. Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze dal 1537 al 1631, exh. cat., Florence, Detroit, and Chicago, 2002

Selected Past Lectures and Seminars
 

“Visionaries and Animators in Post-Mannerist Italian Painting,” Northwestern University, May 2004 “Circumscription and Sculpture,” Silverberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 30 April 2004 “Giambologna’s Sabine and its Viewers,” Brown University, March 2004; Harvard University, April 2004 “The Cult of Materials," Italian Art Society session, College Art Association meeting, Seattle, February 2004 “Angel/Demon,” Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, December 2003 “How the Body Changes by Means of Imitation: Visual Harmonics After Leonardo," Wesleyan University, November 2003 “Münzen als Medaillen unter den ersten Medici-Herzögen,” Universität Bonn, October 2003 “Magic and the Moresque in Renaissance Art,” Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, 2003 “Discernment and Animation, Leonardo to Lomazzo,” Emory University, April 2003 “Column, Idol, Talisman, Bronze,” Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Toronto, March 2003 “The Renaissance Statue and its Bronze,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2003 “The Demonic Arts and the Origin of the Medium,” Department of Art History, University of Chicago, April 2002, Villa Spelman, Florence, March 2002 “Naming and Genre in Giambologna’s Sabine,” Courtauld Institute of Art, London, March 2002 “The Subject of Renaissance Mastery,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, February 2002 (paper in session “The Renaissance Remastered”) “Renaissance Bondage,” American Academy in Rome, February 2002 “Cellinis Grabmal – Poetik und Publikum,” Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, February 2002 “Goldsmiths with Guns,” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, January 2002 “Modeling and its Subjects after Michelangelo,” Department of Art History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 2001 “Cellini’s Arms,” Kunstgeschichtliches Institut der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, November 2000 “Sculptor and Model in Late Renaissance Italy,” University of Georgia, Athens, November 2000 “Cellini’s Saltcellar,” Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, October 2000 “Professionalism, Universality, and the Bronze-caster,” Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Florence, March 2000 “The Medici Mercury and the Breath of Bronze,” Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC, October 1999 “Leben und Tod in Cellinis Perseus,” Kunsthochschule, Universität Kassel, July 1998 (invited lecture) “Cellini’s Blood,” Villa Spelman, Florence, March 1998

Other Professional Activities
 

Panel Organizer (with Rebecca Zorach), “The Renaissance Idol,” Renaissance Society of America Panel, March 2003 Symposium Organizer (with Mary Pardo), “The Studio,” Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History, University of North       Carolina at Chapel Hill, 20-22 April 2001 Chair, “Painterly Artifice: Spanish Incarnations of the Ut Pictura Poesis,” Renaissance Society of America Panel,       March 2001 Manuscript reviewer, Art Bulletin, Renaissance Quarterly Book manuscript reviewer, University of Chicago Press, Wadsworth Press, Blackwell Press

Selected Fellowships and Awards

American Academy in Rome  Donald and Maria Cox Postdoctoral Rome Prize Fellowship, 2001-2002  Getty Grant Program  J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 2001-2002  College Art Association  Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize (for the best article published in the Art Bulletin by a junior scholar), 1999  Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation  Fellowship in the Humanities, 1998-1999  Princeton University Center for Human Values  Honorary Fellowship, 1998-1999  Samuel H. Kress Foundation  Graduate Fellowship, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, 1996-1998 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Summer Study Grant, 1993  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship, 1990

 

updated 6/04