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Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Members of the Center

Samuel H. Kress Professor

Rudolf Preimesberger
Freie Universität Berlin (emeritus)

Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Elizabeth Hill Boone
Tulane University

Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2008

Hans Belting
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

Fifty-seventh A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, spring 2008

Joseph Leo Koerner
Harvard University

Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Senior Fellow

Marcia Kupfer
Washington, DC
Medieval Cartographies: Imagining the Orbis Terrarum and the Christianization of Space

Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellows

Beth L. Holman
New York, New York
"Honest Envy": Artists' Competitions in Renaissance Italy

Felipe Pereda
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Flemish Exports and Local Markets: The Religious and Ideological Conditions of Spanish Patronage

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellows

Stanko Kokole
University of Primorska, Slovenia
Marbled Imagery of Humanists' Imagination in the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini

Alex Potts (fall 2007)
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Art and Non-Art in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Between Commitment and Consumerism

Dennis Romano
Syracuse University
Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, c. 1100–c. 1350

Edmond J. Safra Guest Scholar, spring 2008

Carl Brandon Strehlke
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fifteenth-Century Art in the Crown of Arago

Guest Scholar, spring 2008

Andrea Buddensieg
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Global Art and the Museum

Podhorsky Guest Scholar, spring 2008

Pavel Kalina
Czech Technical University
Following St. Jerome: Humanism and Mysticism in Late Fifteenth-Century Art

Visiting Senior Fellowship Program

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2007

Laura Coyle
American Federation of Arts
A Passion for Flowers: Painting in France from Courbet to Monet

Guido Rebecchini
Università di Siena
The Artistic and Literary Patronage of Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, 1529–1535

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, spring 2008

Jaynie Anderson
The University of Melbourne
An Intellectual Biography of Giovanni Morelli

Viccy Coltman
University of Edinburgh
A Mania for Marble: The Art History and Historiography of Ancient Sculpture in Britain

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, spring 2008

Virginie Defente
Université Rennes II Haute Bretagne
Genesis and Formation of Early Celtic Art

Emily Ballew Neff
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Revolutionary Paintings by West, Copley, and Trumbull

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2007

Michael Kiene
Universität zu Köln
"Palaces of Wisdom": College and University Building in Italy, 1300–1800

Pietro Roccasecca
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Visual and Representational Theories in Leon Battista Alberti's De pictura

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Paired Fellows for Research in Conservation and the History of Art

Tonny Beentjes
University of Amsterdam

Pamela H. Smith
Columbia University

Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life Casting Techniques

Postdoctoral Fellows

Douglas Brine
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007–2009
The Content and Context of Wall-Mounted Memorials in Northern Europe, 1360–1530

Amy Freund
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006–2008
Revolutionary Likenesses: Portraiture and Politicsin France, 1789–1804

Predoctoral Fellowship Program

Predoctoral Fellows
in residence

Bridget Alsdorf
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2006–2008
[University of California–Berkeley]
The Art of Association: Fantin-Latour and French Group Portraiture, 1855–1885

Ross Barrett
Wyeth Fellow, 2006–2008
[Boston University]
Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Visual Culture

Zeynep Çelik
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2005–2008
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Kinaesthetic Impulses: Aesthetic Experience, Bodily Knowledge, and Pedagogical Practices in Germany, 1871–1918

Cécile Fromont
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2006–2008
[Harvard University]
Christian Icons, Kongo Symbols: Defining Form, Religion, and Meaning in Early Modern Central Africa

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi
Ittleson Fellow, 2006–2008
[University of California–Los Angeles]
Crossing Borders, Pushing Boundaries: Senufo Arts and History in a "Frontier"

Rebecca M. Molholt
David E. Finley Fellow, 2005–2008
[Columbia University]
On Stepping Stones: The Historical Experience of Roman Mosaics

Sara Switzer
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2006–2008
[Columbia University]
Correggio and the Sacred Image

Predoctoral Fellows
not in residence

Lucia Allais
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2007-2008
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Will to War, Will to Art: Cultural Internationalism and the Modernist Aesthetics of Monuments, 1932–1964

Ivan Drpić
David E. Finley Fellow, 2007–2010
[Harvard University]
Kosmos of Verse: Art and Epigram in Late Byzantium

S. Adam Hindin
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2007–2009
[Harvard University]
Knowledge, Memory, and Ethnic Commitment in Bohemian Visual Culture, 1200–1450

Ashley Elizabeth Jones
David E. Finley Fellow, 2006–2009
[Yale University]
"Lord, Protect the Wearer": Late-Antique Numismatic Jewelry and the Image of the Emperor as Talismanic Device

Joan Kee
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2007–2009
[New York University, Institute of Fine Arts]
Points, Lines, Encounters: The Paintings of Lee Ufan and Park Seobo

Michele Matteini
Ittleson Fellow, 2007–2009
[New York University, Institute of Fine Arts]
Painting in the Age of Evidential Scholarship (Kaozheng): Luo Ping's Late Years, c. 1770–1799

Cammie McAtee
Wyeth Fellow, 2007–2009
[Harvard University]
The "Search for Form" in Postwar American Architecture

Albert Narath
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2007–2010
[Columbia University]
Rediscovering the Baroque: Architecture, History, and Politics in Austria and Germany

Christina Normore
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2007–2008
[University of Chicago]
Feasting the Eye and Eyeing the Feast in Late Medieval Burgundy

Kristin Romberg
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2006–2009
[Columbia University]
Gan's Constructivism

Joyce Tsai
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2007–2009
[The Johns Hopkins University]
Painting after Photography: László Moholy-Nagy, 1921–1936

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

Ellery Foutch
[University of Pennsylvania]

Leta Ming
[University of Southern California]

Prudence Peiffer
[Harvard University]

Andrea Renner
[Columbia University]