Visiting Senior Fellows, 2001–2005
A list of former Visiting Senior Fellows at the Center and their research projects.
2004–2005
Shyamalkanti Chakravarti, Indian Museum, Calcutta
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2004
The Elephant of Nine Women: An Unexplored Motif of Indian Art
Stuart Lingo, Michigan State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2004
Federico Barocci and the Alluring Icon: Retrospection and Modernity in Late Renaissance Painting
Christine Mengin, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2004
The Architecture of the Modern Courthouse in the United States and France
Janine Mileaf, Swarthmore College
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2004
“Please Touch”: The Object in Dada and Surrealism
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Vassar College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2004
Art, Marriage, and Family Life in the Florentine Renaissance Palazzo
Liubov Savinskaya, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
March 1–April 30, 2005
Critical Catalogue of German, Austrian, and Swiss Paintings of the Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries from the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
David Schuyler, Franklin and Marshall College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2004
The Sanctified Landscape: The Transformation of the Mid-Hudson Valley, 1824–1909
Javier Pérez Segura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2004
The Impact from Abroad: Picasso, Dalí, and Spanish Modern Painting in the 1928 Pittsburgh International Exhibition
Zygmunt Waźbiński, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
June 1–July 31, 2004
Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura and the Academy of Drawing in Florence: The Origins of an Academic Art Handbook
2003–2004
Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, University of Delaware
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2003
Classicism and the European Imaginary in the Late Nineteenth Century
David Bindman, University College London
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2003
Canova, Thorvaldsen, and the Reception of Sculpture in the Early Nineteenth Century
Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 16–August 20, 2003
The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Starr Foundation Visiting Senior Research Fellow, June 1–July 31,
The Aura and the Authority of Indian Art in the United States of America: Collections, Exhibitions, Personalities
Michael Roaf, Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2003
The Construction of Ancient Mesopotamian and Persian Palace Decoration
Paolo Scrivano, University of Toronto
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2003
Architecture and Town Planning Exchanges between Italy and the United States, 1945–1960
2002–2003
Alexandre Kostka, Centre
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2002
German and French Art Propaganda during World War I in the Neutral Countries
Gregory Maertz, Saint John's University, New York
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 30, 2002
The Invisible Museum: The Secret Postwar History of Nazi Art
Sadasiba Pradhan, Sambalpur University
Starr Foundation Visiting Senior Research Fellow, September 1–December 31, 2002
Symbolism in Orissan Rock Art
David R. Marshall, University of Melbourne
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2002
The Villa Patrizi and the Recovery of the Roman Rococo, 1710–1740
Dennis P. Doordan, University of Notre Dame
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2003
Modern Architecture and the Cold War: The Curious Case of Frank Lloyd Wright and Post‒World War II Italian Architecture
Anita E Moskowitz, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 3–April 30, 2003
The Sculpture of Giovanni Bastianini and the Nineteenth-Century Reception of Renaissance Sculpture
2001–2002
Margherita Azzi Visentini, Politecnico di Milano
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, April 1–May 31, 2002
The Borromean Islands on Lago Maggiore
Veronica Bogdan, Russian Academy of Arts
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2001
The Education of Artists at the Imperial Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg, and the National Academy of Design, c. 1850–1917
Tamara L. Bray, Wayne State University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2001
Imperial Art and the Andes: The Imagery of the Inca State
Matteo Casini, Università
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2001
The Troubled Visibility of Venetian Social Culture in the Baroque
Jean Dhombres, École des
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2002
The Whole and the Part: How Drawing and Illustration Represented Integral and Differential Calculus (1670–1750)
Lorenzo Ghersi,
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2002
Late Bellini and His Patrons
Elena Khodza, State Hermitage Museum
Soros Research Travel Fellow, September 8–November 30, 2001
Greek Terracottas of the Hellenistic Epoch
Alexander Kruglov, State Hermitage Museum
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2002
Ancient Greek and Roman Fountain Sculpture: Chronology and Iconography
Qing-Quan Li, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Starr Foundation Visiting Senior Research Fellow, November 1, 2001–February 28, 2002
Study of the Tomb Murals from the Song, Liao, and Jin Dynasties
John Anthony Loughman, University College Dublin
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2002
Subject Terminology and the Reception of Art in the Netherlands, c. 1550–1720
Christopher R. Marshall, University of Melbourne
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2001
Displaying Painting in Seventeenth-Century Naples
Mitchell E Merling, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2001
Capriccio (Invented Places): Paintings of Architectural Fantasy from Renaissance to Romanticism
Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University of Technology
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 2001
Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics
Jerzy Miziolek, University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2001
Botticelli’s Masterpieces Reflected: Domestic Panels with the Fable of Psyche from the Late Quattrocento
Pradeep Mohanty, Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune
Starr Foundation Visiting Senior Research Fellow, May 1–August 31, 2001
Recent Archaeology in Western Orissa: New Research on the Mukhalingas
Ann Roberts, Lake Forest College
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 2001
An Illustrated Incunable of the “Rule of Saint Jerome” and Late Medieval Representations of Nuns
Pietro Roccasecca, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2002
The Idea of “Construzione Legittima” versus Material Evidence in the Wider History of Perspective Procedures
Elena
Paul Mellon Research Travel Fellow, November 10–December 28, 2001
The Catalogue Raisonné of French Painting in The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts: From the End of the Sixteenth Century to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Virginia Spate, University of Sydney
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2002
Metamorphoses: Woman, Man, and Nature in French Art from the Early 1800s to 1914
Marco Venturi di Este, Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2001
The Practice of Theoreticians
2000–2001
Catherine J. Allen, George Washington University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2001
Cultural Patterning in Andean Art
Qing Chang, Research Institute of the Buddhist Culture of China, Beijing
Starr Foundation Visiting Senior Research Fellow, January 1–April 30, 2001
Chinese Buddhist Art in North American Museum Collections
Joseph Connors, Columbia University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2000
The Architecture of Francesco Borromini, 1599–1667: Curiosity, Collections, and Borromini's Views on Architecture
Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2000
The Metaphoric Relationship of Art and Life: Aesthetics and Science in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Pamela Gerrish Nunn, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2000
Present and Incorrect
Giuseppe Pucci, Università di Siena
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2000
Archaeology and Visual Arts in Epic Movies
Cynthia M. Pyle, New York City
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2001
Art as Science
Abdul Rehman, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Starr Foundation Visiting Senior Research Fellow, June 1–September 30, 2000
Symbolism and Decorative Motifs in Muslim Architecture of India: A Case Study of Makli Tombs
Pietro Roccasecca, Accademia di Belle Art, Firenze
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2000
Research on the Incisions for Perspective Construction in Italian Drawings and Panel Paintings from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in the National Gallery of Art
Martin Schieder, Freie Universität Berlin; Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2001
French Art in Postwar Germany—German Modern Art in France after 1945
Susan L. Siegfried, University of Leeds
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 1999
Ingres: Sex, History, and the Substance of Painting
T. Barton Thurber, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2001
Publication and Publicity: Architecture and Print Culture in Renaissance Italy