Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors

The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor serves for a term of up to six months, forging connections between the research of the National Gallery’s curatorial staff and that of visiting scholars at the Center. The Safra Professor may present seminars or curatorial lectures for graduate students and emerging scholars, including curators from other institutions, while pursuing independent research.


The professorship was established in 2002 with support from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.

2020s

Spring 2024
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
Socio-Natural Industryscapes in Early Modern Europe

Spring 2023
Gail Feigenbaum, San Diego, CA
High Prices: The Carracci Brand

Spring 2022
Aruna D’Souza, Washington, DC
Questions about Art History, Museums, and Writing

Spring 2020
Emily Braun, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Cubism and Trompe l'Oeil

2010s

Spring 2019
Richard J. Powell, Duke University
Emancipation and the Freed Revisited: Research, Exhibition, Interpretation

Spring 2018
David Bomford, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art and Uncertainty: The Limits of Technical Art History

Fall 2016 / Spring 2017
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, formerly Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
The Tale of a Sculpture: Rodin's Statuette of a Woman

Spring 2016
Thomas Kren, J. Paul Getty Museum, emeritus
The Nude in the Renaissance in Europe, 1400–1530

Spring 2015
Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The American Watercolor Movement: 1860–1925

Spring 2014
Anna Ottani Cavina, Fondazione Federico Zeri, Università di Bologna
Landscape Studies: Exploring Visual Representations of Nature

Spring 2013
Cecilia Frosinini, Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro, Florence
Giotto in Florence: Shedding New Light on the Peruzzi Chapel

Spring 2011
Victor I. Stoichita, Université de Fribourg

Spring 2010
Roger Taylor, De Montfort University

2000s

Fall 2008
Nancy J. Troy, University of Southern California

Spring 2008
Hans Belting, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

Fall 2005
Stephen Bann, University of Bristol

Spring 2005
Carl Brandon Strehlke, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Spring 2004
Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Spring 2003
Manfred Leithe-Jasper, formerly Kunstkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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