Visiting Senior Fellows, 2006–2010
A list of former Visiting Senior Fellows at the Center and their research projects.
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,
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
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