Spring 2021
Penelope Curtis
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors
The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professorship was established in 2002 with support from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. The Safra Professor serves for a term of up to six months, forging connections between the research of the Gallery's curatorial staff and that of visiting scholars at the Center. The Safra Professor may present seminars or curatorial lectures for graduate students and emerging scholars, including curators from other institutions, while pursuing independent research.
© 2014 MMA, photograph by Jackie Neale
Spring 2020
Emily Braun
Hunter College
Cubism and Trompe l'Oeil
© Duke Photography
Spring 2019
Richard J. Powell
Duke University
Emancipation and the Freed Revisited: Research, Exhibition, Interpretation
Spring 2018
David Bomford
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art and Uncertainty: The Limits of Technical Art History
Fall 2016 / Spring 2017
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain
formerly Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
The Tale of a Sculpture: Rodin's Statuette of a Woman
Spring 2016
Thomas Kren
J. Paul Getty Museum, emeritus
The Nude in the Renaissance in Europe, 1400 – 1530
Spring 2015
Kathleen A. Foster
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The American Watercolor Movement: 1860 – 1925
Spring 2014
Anna Ottani Cavina
Fondazione Federico Zeri, Università di Bologna
Landscape Studies: Exploring Visual Representations of Nature
Spring 2013
Cecilia Frosinini
Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro, Florence
Giotto in Florence: Shedding New Light on the Peruzzi Chapel
Fall 2011
Marc Fumaroli
Collège de France
The Academy of Painting and Sculpture in the Ancien Régime: New Perspectives
Fall 2011
Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Université Paris-Sorbonne
How to Talk About Art: Differences and Limits of Art Theory, Art Criticism, Art History, and Aesthetics
Spring 2011
Victor I. Stoichita
Université de Fribourg
Spring 2010
Roger Taylor
De Montfort University
Fall 2008
Nancy J. Troy
University of Southern California
Spring 2008
Hans Belting
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
Fall 2005
Stephen Bann
University of Bristol
Spring 2005
Carl Brandon Strehlke
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Spring 2004
Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Spring 2003
Manfred Leithe-Jasper
formerly Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna