National Gallery of Art

2009–2010

David Bindman, University College London (emeritus)

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, February 1–March 31, 2010
Canova and Thorvaldsen in Their Critical Context

Giovanni Careri, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 November 2–December 31, 2009

The Ancestors of Christ: Christians and Jews in the Sistine Chapel

Margaret Haines, Villa I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, September 1–October 31, 2009
The “Grande Sorella” of Brunelleschi’s Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore: A Comparative Examination of the Structural and Administrative History of the Construction of the Dome of Saint Peter’s

Vaughan Hart, University of Bath

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2009

Inigo Jones: The Column and the Crown

Andrew Hopkins, Università degli Studi de L’Aquila

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 November 2–December 31, 2009

Beyond Ceremony: Architectural Retreats in Early Modern Italy

Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 September 1–October 31, 2009

Women and Modernity in Posters, 1880s–1900s

Brian L. McLaren, University of Washington

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2009
Modern Architecture, Colonialism, and Race in Fascist Italy

Elena Osokina, University of South Carolina

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, May 7–June 30, 2009
Rembrandts for Tractors: Soviet Art Export under Stalin


2008–2009

Jaynie Anderson, The University of Melbourne

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2008
An Intellectual Biography of Giovanni Morelli

Viccy Coltman, University of Edinburgh

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2008
A Mania for Marble: The Art History and Historiography of Ancient Sculpture in Britain

Dario L. Gamboni, Université de Genève
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, December 22, 2008–February 6, 2009
Gauguin “in the Heart of Thought”

Olivier Lugon, Université de Lausanne

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 January 15–February 28, 2009

Learning from Photographs: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Photography

Emily Ballew Neff, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, 
July 1–August 31, 2008

Revolutionary Paintings by West, Copley, and Trumbull

Lisa Pon, Southern Methodist University

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 November 1–December 31, 2008

Forlì’s Madonna of the Fire: Image, Cult, Community

Nino Simonishvili, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2009
Images of Identity at the Crossroads: Georgian Medieval Art, a Comparative Study

Luigi Sperti, Università Ca’Foscari di Venezia

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, September 2–October 15, 2008
Architectural Decoration and Classical Tradition in Early Renaissance Venice

2007–2008

Cammy Brothers, University of Virginia

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, July 1–August 31, 2007

Drawing from Memory: Giuliano da Sangallo and the
 Ruins of Rome

Laura Coyle, American Federation of Arts

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 November 1–December 31, 2007

A Passion for Flowers: Painting in France from Courbet to Monet

Virginie Defente, Université Rennes II

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Visiting Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2008

Genesis and Formation of Early Celtic Art

Davide Gasparotto, Galleria Nazionale, Parma

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2007
Humanists and Artists in Sixteenth­-Century Veneto:
 The Case of Andrea Riccio

Eunice D. Howe, University of Southern California

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–30, 2007

The Architecture of Healing: Hospitals in Early Modern Italy, 1400 – 1600

Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2007
Dialogues of Devotion: Soliciting Favor from the Madonna in Renaissance Italy

Michael Kiene, Universität zu Köln

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, 
November 1–December 31, 2007

“Palaces of Wisdom”: College and University Building in Italy, 1300–1800

Caroline P. Murphy, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 July 1–August 31, 2007

Marieanne de la Trémoille: Shaping Space across the Courts of Europe

Guido Rebecchini, Università di Siena

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 September 4–October 31, 2007

The Artistic and Literary Patronage of Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici, 1529–1535

Pietro Roccasecca, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 September 4–October 31, 2007

Visual and Representational Theories in Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura

2006–2007

Sally J. Cornelison, University of Kansas

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, 
July 1–August 31, 2006

Medici Power and Popular Piety: Giambologna’s Saint Antoninus Chapel at San Marco, Florence

Smiljka Gabelić, University of Belgrade

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 September 1–October 31, 2006
The Monastery at Konče and Monumental Art of the Fourteenth Century in the Balkans

Amy Golahny, Lycoming College

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 3–February 28, 2007

Rembrandt and Italy

Sally J. Cornelison, University of Kansas

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 July 1–August 31, 2006

Medici Power and Popular Piety: Giambologna’s Saint Antoninus Chapel at San Marco, Florence

Smiljka Gabelić, University of Belgrade

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, 
September 1–October 31, 2006

The Monastery at Konče and Monumental Art of the Fourteenth Century in the Balkans

Marcia B. Hall, Temple University

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, 
January 16–March 28, 2007

The Sacred Image in the Renaissance: Crisis and Resolution

Fredrika H. Jacobs

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 May 1–June 30, 2007

Devotional Dialogues: Miraculous Madonnas and Gifting Images for Grace

Andrew Hemingway, University College London

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 November 1–December 31, 2006

American Modern: Reification and Precisionist Painting

Eik Kahng, The Walters Art Museum

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 May 1–June 30, 2006

The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse

Joanna Ostapkowicz, World Museum Liverpool

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, July 1–August 31, 2006

Visual Arts of the Caribbean in the Eleventh through the Sixteenth Century: Taíno Wooden and Cotton Sculpture

Richard Steven Street, San Anselmo, California

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 September 1–October 31, 2006

Leonard Nadel’s Photo Essay on Bracero Laborers in California

Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Washington, DC

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 March 1–April 30, 2007

Juan Sánchez: A Monograph for A Ver: Revisioning Art History

2005–2006

Jean-Philippe Antoine, Université de Lyon 3 – Jean Moulin
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, 
September 9–October 31, 2005

Samuel Morse and the New Economy of Signs

Sheila R. Canby, The British Museum

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow,
 January 3–February 28, 2006

Manuscript Illumination in Safavid Iran, 1501–1722

Stéphane Laurent, Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut national d’histoire de l’art
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, 
November 1–December 31, 2005

Decorative Arts, Fine Arts, and Techniques: The Concept of the Unity of Arts Developed by Raoul Dufy’s Fée Électricité

Boris I. Marshak, The State Hermitage Museum
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 January 3–February 28, 2006

The History of the Art of Sogdiana

Anthony White, University of Melbourne

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow,
 April 1–May 31, 2006

Modernism and Fascism: Italian Abstraction in the 1930s