National Gallery of Art

Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
Louise M. Burkhart
University at Albany, State University of New York
Picturing Aztec Christianity: Testerian Manuscripts and the Catechism in Nahuatl

William C. Seitz Senior Fellow
Thierry de Duve
Université Lille 3 (emeritus)
Manet’s Testament, Duchamp’s Message, Broodthaers’ Lesson

Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellows

Anne Dunlop
Tulane University
Castagno’s Crime: Andrea del Castagno and Quattrocento Painting

Stuart Lingo
University of Washington, Seattle
Bronzino’s Bodies: Fortunes of the Ideal Nude in an Age of Reform

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellows

Cynthia Hahn
Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Reliquaries: Objects, Action, Response

Carlos Sambricio (spring 2013)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
A History of the History of Spanish Architecture

Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial Fellow
David Alan Brown
National Gallery of Art
Department of Italian Paintings
Giovanni Bellini’s Last Works

Scholars in Residence, fall 2012

Martina Bagnoli
The Walters Art Museum
The Five Senses and Medieval Art

Frank Martin
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Freie Universität Berlin
Antique Portraits in the Dresden Sculpture Collection: Their Use and Reuse in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Visiting Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2012

Caroline Maniaque-Benton
École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais
Alternative Architecture: A Documentary History

Mark Salber Phillips
Carleton University
History Painting and Historical Representation in Britain: From Benjamin West to Ford Madox Brown

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2013

Barbara Mennel
University of Florida
Reproducing Europe: Women and Labor in the Cinemas of the New Europe

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow/Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, spring 2013

J. Nicholas Napoli
Pratt Institute
Trust, Industry, and Justice at the Certosa di San Martino in Naples

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2012

Paul B. Jaskot
DePaul University
Cultural Fantasies, Ideological Goals, and Political Economic Realities: The Built Environment at Auschwitz

James Grantham Turner
University of California, Berkeley
Eros Visible: Sexuality, Art, and Antiquity in Italy, 1499–1540

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, spring 2013

Christine Göttler
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Bern
Inventing Newness: Local History and Global Ambitions in the Art and Visual Culture of Early Modern Antwerp, c. 1560–1630

Arnold A.Witte
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Seicento Religious Theater and the Visual Arts: Contemporary References in Art Treatises

A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Łukasz Stanek
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2013
Henri Lefebvre’s ”Vers une architecture de la jouissance” (1973): A Manifesto of Architectural Research

Stephen Hart Whiteman
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014
Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)

Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship Program

Predoctoral Fellows (in residence)

Susanna Berger
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2011–2013
[University of Cambridge]
The Art of Philosophy: Early Modern IllustratedThesis Prints, Broadsides, and Student Notebooks

Meredith Gamer
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2010–2013
[Yale University]
Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain’s Early Modern Eighteenth Century

Marius Bratsberg Hauknes
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2013
[Princeton University]
Imago, Figura, Scientia: The Image of the World in Thirteenth-Century Rome

Jessica L . Horton
Wyeth Fellow, 2011–2013
[University of Rochester]
Places to Stand: Native Art beyond the Nation

Nathaniel B. Jones
David E. Finley Fellow, 2010–2013
[Yale University]
Nobilibus pinacothecae sunt faciundae: The Inception of the Roman Fictive Picture Gallery

Fredo Rivera
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2011–2013
[Duke University]
Revolutionizing Modernities: Visualizing Utopia in 1960s Havana, Cuba

Yanfei Zhu
Ittleson Fellow, 2011–2013
[The Ohio State University]
Transtemporal and Cross-Border Alignment: The Rediscovery of Yimin Ink Painting in Modern China, 1900–1949

Predoctoral Fellows (not in residence)

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
David E. Finley Fellow, 2011–2014
[Princeton University]
”Canonical Views”: The Disposition of Figures in Modern Art, 1886–1912

Hannah J. Friedman
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2012–2015
[Johns Hopkins University]
Blind Virtue and the Practice of Prophecy in the Art of Jusepe de Ribera

Subhashini Kaligotla
Ittleson Fellow, 2012–2014
[Columbia University]
Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Reimagining the Sacred Architecture of India’s Deccan Region

Kristopher W . Kersey
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2012–2014
[University of California, Berkeley]
Emperor Go-Shirakawa and the Image of Classical Japan

Jennifer Nelson
Robert H. and C larice Smith Fellow, 2012–2013
[Yale University]
Image beyond Likeness: The Chimerism of Early Protestant Visuality, 1517–1565

Joshua O’Driscoll
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2011–2014
[Harvard University]
Picti Imaginativo: Image and Inscription in Ottonian Manuscripts from Cologne

Ann E. Patnaude
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2012–2013
[University of Chicago]
Locating Identity: Mixed Inscriptions in Archaic and Classical Greek Pottery and Stone, c. 675–336 BCE

David Pullins
David E. Finley Fellow, 2012–2015
[Harvard University]
Cut and Paste: The Mobile Image from Watteau to Pillement

James M. Thomas
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2012–2014
[Stanford University]
The Aesthetics of Habitability: Edward Wortz, NASA, and the Art of Light and Space, 1969–1973

Susan M. Wager
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2012–2014
[Columbia University]
Boucher’s Bijoux: Luxury Reproductions in the Age of Enlightenment

Elaine Y. Yau
Wyeth Fellow, 2012–2014
[University of California, Berkeley]
Vision, Painting, Placing: Sister Gertrude Morgan’s Material Performances and the Sensory Cultures of New Orleans, 1960–1983

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad

Emily Clare Casey
[University of Delaware]

Alexander Brier Marr
[University of Rochester]

Whitney Thompson
[The Graduate Center, City University of New York]