Senior Fellows, 1980–1985

A list of former Senior Fellows at the Center and their research projects.

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1984–1985

Jonathan Alexander, University of Manchester
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Humanistic Book Illumination in Padua and Venice c. 1450–1530 and The Patronage of the English Court c. 1200–1420

Elizabeth Cropper, Temple University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
The Crisis of Originality and Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Mojmir Svatopluk Frinta, State University of New York, Albany

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Punched Decoration of Gilded Surfaces on Panel Paintings of the Trecento and Quattrocento; The Confrontation of ltalo-Byzantine Paintings with the Procedures of Byzantine Icon Painting

Martin Powers, University of California, Los Angeles
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Immortals and Their Imagery in Han Pictorial Art

Edward A. Snow, Rice University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Interpreting Bruegel

Richard C. Trexler, State University of New York, Binghamton
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
The Journey of the Magi: The Social History of a Christian Iconologue

1983–1984

Anne Hagopian van Buren, Tufts University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Hesdin Castle and Broederlam's Paintings of the Golden Fleece

John C. Irwin, Victoria and Albert Museum (emeritus)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Origins of Monumental Art in Universal Myth

Elisabeth Kieven, Bibliotheca Hertziana
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, spring 1984
Roman Architecture in the 1730s

V. A. Kolve, University of Virginia
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 1984
The God-denying Fool in Medieval Art and Literature

John A. Pinto, Smith College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 1984
The Trevi Fountain in Rome

Thomas F. Reese, University of Texas, Austin
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, fall 1983
Architecture and Reform Politics in the Age of Charles III

Charles S. Rhyne, Reed College
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
The Drawings and Paintings of John Constable: Catalogue Raisonné

Richard E. Spear, Oberlin College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Problems of Originality and Caravaggio Studies

1982–1983

Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., University of New Mexico
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Meaning and Content in Winslow Homer’s Art

Beatrice Farwell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Popular Imagery and High Art in Nineteenth-Century France

Alan Gowans, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Studies in Social Functions of Art and Architecture

Hubert H. Damisch, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 1982
Perspective Story

Barbara Miller Lane, Bryn Mawr College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 1983
The Uses of History in Modem Architecture: Government Buildings and Urbanism since 1870

Anne McGee Morganstern, Ohio State University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
The Genealogical Tomb: Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century

Amy L. Neff, University of Tennessee
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
The Supplications variae as a Franciscan Manuscript

Doris M. Srinivasan, Fairfax, Virginia
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Origins of Divine Multiplicity in Indian Art: Meaning and Form

Gabriel P. Weisberg, University of Pittsburgh
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, spring 1983
S. Bing and the Evolution of Art Nouveau

1981–1982

Christiane Andersson, Columbia University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
A Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Urs Graf

Irene A. Bierman, University of California, Los Angeles
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
The lconographic Significance of Interlocked Arabic Script: Lām/Alif, Alif/Lām

Yasushi Egami, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Works Related to the Imperial “Painters' Bureau” in Early Medieval Japan

Molly Faries, Indiana University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Survey of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Northern European Panel Painting in the National Gallery with Infrared Reflectography

Alan Gowans, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Interrelations of Form, Cultural Expression, and Social Function in North American Architectural Styles

Donald Preziosi, State University of New York, Binghamton
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Narrativity and Textuality in Palaeolithic art

Claire Richter Sherman, Washington, DC
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
The Illustrations of Nicole Oresme's Translations of Aristotle

Barbara Maria Stafford, University of Chicago
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Voyage into Substance: Illustrated Travel Accounts, c. 1760–1840

1980–1981

Dora P. Crouch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
The Water System of Morgantina, Sicily

Sandra Hindman, Northwestern University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Art and Politics in Christine de Pizan's Epistre de Othéa

Rosalind Krauss, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Nineteenth-Century "Landscape" Photography and The Role of Photography within Surrealism

Keith Moxey, University of Virginia
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Peasant Imagery in German Graphics in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century