Visiting Senior Fellows, 1986–1990

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

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1989–1990

Doreen Bolger, Amon Carter Museum
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1990
The Patrons of the American Still-Life Painter William M. Harnett

John Stephen Gage, Cambridge University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1990
The Optical-Theoretical Context of Some Examples of American Color-Field Painting

Ann Eden Gibson, Yale University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1990
Toward a Cultural History of Abstract Expressionism: Gender and “Race” in the New York School

Bianca Kühnel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1990
The Ivory Bookcovers of the Queen Melisende Psalter (London, British Museum, Egerton 1139)

Gustav Kühnel, Tel Aviv University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1990
Wall Mosaics in the Holy Land

Patricia Mainardi, City University of New York, Brooklyn College and Graduate School and University Center
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1990
The Politics of Display: The 1883 Exposition Nationale Triennale

Sherrin Marshall, University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State College
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1989
The Dutch Family in Life and Art, 1450–1700

Zygmunt Waźbiński, University of Torun, Institute of Fine Arts
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 1990
Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte as the Protector of the Roman Academy of Saint Luke

Ernst van de Wetering, University of Amsterdam
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1989
Rembrandt Paintings, 1643–1655, in the National Gallery’s Collections

Dieter Wuttke, Universität Bamberg
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1989
An Edition of Selected Letters of Erwin Panofsky

Loránd Zentai, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 1990
A Catalogue of Central Italian Renaissance Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

1988–1989

Constance Berman, University of Iowa
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1989
Construction of Churches and Financial Stability of Cistercian Women's Houses in the Ecclesiastical Province of Sens: 1200–1350

John Correia-Afonso, The Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture, St. Xavier's College, Bombay
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1989
The Christian Contribution to Mughal Painting

Joop M. Joosten, Stedelijk Museum
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1989
Introduction to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Cubist and Abstract Works by Piet Mondrian

Gert Kreytenberg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1989
The Madonna of Humility in the National Gallery of Art, Attributed to Andrea Orcagna and Jacopo di Cione: Questions of Attribution and Iconography

Royston Landau, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1988
Architecture and Knowledge

Tomasz Mikocki, University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1989
Ancient Copies of Greek Sculpture in Polish Collections

Alessandro Morandotti, Finarte Auction House, Milan
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1989
The MellonVenus and Bacchus and the Original Sculpture Collection in the Nymphaeum of Villa Visconti Borromeo-Litta at Lainate

Werner Oechslin, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1988
Architectural Theory in the Vitruvian Tradition

Joseph Polzer, University of Calgary
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 1989
Simone Martini Studies

Timothy James Standring, Pomona College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1989
The Dal Pozzo Picture Collections

Dieter Wuttke, Universität Bamberg
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1988
An Edition of Erwin Panofsky’s Letters

1987–1988

Margaret A. Alexander, The University of Iowa
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1987
The Roman Mosaics of Thuburbo Maius, Tunisia

Silvia Bordini, Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1987
American Panorama Painting, with Particular Interest in Moving Panoramas

Nicola Gordon Bowe, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1988
Nationalism and Design: Analogies and Links Between the Arts and Crafts Revivals in America and Ireland, 1880–1930

Anna Ottani Cavina, University of Bologna
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1987
Culture in Rome (1770–1800) and the Activity of the Painter Felice Giani

Fernando Checa Cremades, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1988
The Artistic Patronage of Philip II of Spain

Yasushi Egami, Sophia University, Tokyo
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1988
Styles of Early Japanese Illuminated Buddhist Manuscripts

Dragos Gheorghiu, Bucharest
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1988
The Development of European Architectural Designs Parallel to Natural Design

Fritz Koreny, The Albertina
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1988
German Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Mary Tompkins Lewis, New York City
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 1988
Cézanne's Early Imagery

Naomi Miller, Boston University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 1988
Mapping the City, Ptolemy'sCosmography in the Renaissance

1986–1987

Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1986
William Blake and the Tradition of History Painting

Juliusz A. Chrościcki, Warsaw University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1987
Oriental Motifs in the Works of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Their Pupils

Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1987
Dutch Mannerist Printmaking, 1585–1610

Dragos Gheorghiu, Bucharest
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1987
The Development of European Architectural Designs That Are Parallel to Natural Design

Heinz Horat, Department of Preservation of Monuments and Sites, Lucerne
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1987
Cavalier Architects

Peter Humfrey, University of St. Andrews
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1986
The “Scuole Piccole” as Donors of Altarpieces in Renaissance Venice

Elizabeth Langhorne, Piedmont Virginia Community College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1986
The Content of Jackson Pollock’s Art: His Images and His Abstractions

Denis Lavalle, Ministère de la Culture, Paris
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1986
The Art Works and Interiors of Jesuit Establishments in France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

1985–1986

Michael Bury, University of Edinburgh
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1986
The Critical Reputation of Pietro Vannucci, Known as Perugino

Nicole Dacos Crifò, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1985
Drawings by Pedro Campaña (Peeter de Kempeneer)

Marcello Fagiolo, Università di Firenze
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1986
Centers and Peripheries of the Baroque

Jaroslav T. Folda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1986
The Kahn and Mellon Madonnas in the National Gallery of Art

Ulrich Hiesinger, Philadelphia
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 1985–1986
Vincenzo Camuccini and Painting in Rome c. 1780–1830

Adele M. Holcomb, Bishop’s University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 1985
Anna Jameson as an Art Scholar: Her Strategies of Interpretation

Jan van der Marck, The Detroit Institute of Arts
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 1986
The Place of Decorated Bookbinding in the Arts of This Century

Guy Paul R. Métraux, York University, Toronto
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1986
Ancient Medicine and Greek Sculpture: A Preliminary Study

Paul M. Mylonas, National Academy of Fine Arts, Athens
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, winter 1986
The Affinity between Greek and Roman Cultures as Revealed through a Research Translation of Vitruvius into Greek, and Commentary

Allan Sekula, California Institute of the Arts
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1986
Between Instrumental Realism and Modernism: The Physiognomic Paradigm and the Model of the Archive in Photographic Practice, 1880–1940

David Van Zanten, Northwestern University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, summer 1986
Louis Sullivan, 1890–1895: America’s Profoundest Classical Architect