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
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]
