Kress-Beinecke Professors
In addition to pursuing independent research, the Kress-Beinecke Professor is the senior member of the Center and counsels predoctoral fellows.
The one-year Samuel H. Kress Professorship was established by the National Gallery, with the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, in 1965. From 2018 this appointment, newly endowed by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in response to a challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, became known as the Kress-Beinecke Professorship.
2020s
2023–2024
Nancy J. Troy, Stanford University
Making History: Architectural Models and De Stijl
2022–2023
H. Perry Chapman, University of Delaware (emerita)
Rembrandt’s Art History
2021–2022
Lowery Stokes Sims, Museum of Arts and Design (emerita)
The Emergence of a New Black Art Canon
2020–2021
Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles
Graven Images: The Unsettled Lives of Public Monuments
2010s
2019–2020
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Harvard University
Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in the Middle Ages and Other Projects
2018–2019
Maryan W. Ainsworth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art of Discovery: Early Netherlandish Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2017–2018
Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles (emerita)
Constructing Victories: Arches as Celebrations of Roman Infrastructure
2016–2017
Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College (emerita)
Santa Maria in Trastevere: The Life of a Medieval Building in Early Modern Rome
2015–2016
Iain Boyd Whyte, University of Edinburgh
Survey and Anthology
2014–2015
Robert S. Nelson, Yale University
Gifts of Presence: Itineraries of a Greek Manuscript from Constantinople to Florence and from the Middles Ages to the Enlightenment
2013–2014
S. Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University
Electric Paris: Episodes from the Visual Culture of the City of Light in the Era of Thomas Edison
2012–2013
Oskar Bätschmann, University of Bern (emeritus)
Last Works
2011–2012
Julian Gardner, University of Warwick (emeritus)
What's in a Name? Giotto di Bondone
2010–2011
Joseph J. Rishel, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2000s
2009–2010
Bert W. Meijer, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence / Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus)
2008–2009
John House, Courtauld Institute of Art
2007–2008
Rudolf Preimesberger, Freie Universität Berlin (emeritus)
2006–2007
Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University
2005–2006
Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Galleria degli Uffizi (emerita)
2004–2005
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2003–2004
Virginia Spate, University of Sydney
2002–2003
Wolf-Dieter Dube, formerly Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2001–2002
Richard Ormond, formerly National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
2000–2001
Juergen Schulz, Brown University (emeritus)
1990s
1999–2000
Mina Gregori, Università di Firenze
1998–1999
Ilene H. Forsyth, University of Michigan (emerita)
1997–1998
Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1996–1997
Hubert Damisch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1995–1996
David R. Coffin, Princeton University (emeritus)
1994–1995
Jean Sutherland Boggs, formerly Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1993–1994
Anthony Radcliffe, Victoria and Albert Museum (emeritus)
1992–1993
Anne Coffin Hanson, Yale University (emerita)
1991–1992
John Coolidge, Harvard University (emeritus)
1990–1991
Per Bjurström, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
1980s
1989–1990
Milton W. Brown, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center
1988–1989
Sylvie Béguin, Musée du Louvre
1987–1988
Craig Hugh Smyth, Harvard University (emeritus)
1986–1987
Lawrence Burnett Gowing, Royal Academy
1985–1986
George Alexander Kubler, Yale University, emeritus
1984–1985
Charles Mitchell, Bryn Mawr College (emeritus)
1983–1984
Philippe M. Verdier, Université de Montréal (emeritus)
1982–1983
Harold Edwin Wethey, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (emeritus)
Spring 1982
Jean V. Bony, University of California, Berkeley (emeritus)
Fall 1981
Frank Edward Brown, formerly American Academy in Rome
1980–1981
Leopold David Ettlinger, University of California, Berkeley
Spring 1980
Otto Von Simson, Freie Universitiit, Berlin (emeritus)
1970s
Fall 1979
William Sebastian Heckscher, Duke University (emeritus)
1978–1979
George Heard Hamilton, Williams College (emeritus)
1977–1978
Agnes Mongan, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (emerita)
Spring 1977
Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fall 1976
Wolfgang Lotz, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
1975–1976
Francis J. B. Watson, Wallace Collection
1974–1975
Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London
1973–1974
Ary Bob De Vries, Mauritshuis, The Hague (emeritus)
1972–1973
Carl A. J. Nordenfalk, University of Cambridge
1971–1972
William Chapin Seitz, University of Virginia
1970–1971
Wolfgang Stechow, Cleveland Museum of Art
1960s
1969–1970
Rudolf Wittkower, Columbia University (emeritus)
1968–1969
Egbert Haverkamp-Begeman, Yale University
1967–1968
René Huyghe, College de France
1965–1967
Jakob Rosenberg, Harvard University (emeritus)
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