2021
Associate professor Robin Thomas presented “Taming Vesuvius: Building the Royal Palace at Portici,” at the research seminar Natural Disaster and the Bay of Naples: Artistic Encounters and Transformations, June 19, 2021.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield published “Social Art History in Retrospect” in Present Prospects of Social Art History, edited by Robert Slifkin and Anthony E. Grudin. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli co-edited with Lauren Jacobi (MIT), Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield chaired the session “Do-Overs: Repetition and Revision in the Long Eighteenth Century,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) conference, April 10, 2021.
Professor Amara Solari presented presents “Pigment Selection and Catholic Evangelization in the Yucatecan Mayalands, 1540-1600,” Humanities Institute, College of Liberal Arts, April 8, 2021.
Assistant professor Chang Tan co-chaired the session “Asian American Art, Activism, and Intervention,” CAA 2021 Annual Conference, February 13, 2021.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield chaired the session “Virtual / Material: Intersections between Technical and Digital Art History,” CAA 2021 Annual Conference, February 12, 2021.
Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Anthony Cutler presented “On Metastases of the “Menologion”of Basil (Vat.gr. 1613),” part of The Afterlives of Illuminated Manuscripts. CAA 2021 Annual Conference, February 10, 2021.
Associate professor Nancy Locke published “Piquer, plaquer: Cézanne, Pissarro, et la peinture au couteau à palette,” in HiCSA Editions: Histoire culturelle et sociale de l’art.
Associate professor Nancy Locke reviewed “Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art,” by Jennifer A. Thompson et al., H-Net Reviews, January 2021.
2020
Associate professor Craig Zabel reviewed “Glenhill Farm: The History of a Family Estate As Revealed in the Correspondence between Brognard Okie and Ernst and Mary Behrend.” by Richard L. Hart. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Volume 87, Number 3, Summer 2020, pp. 584-586
Associate professor Nancy Locke reviewed “Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque.” by Hollis Clayson. H-France Forum, Volume 15, Issue 5, Summer 2020.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli took part in the roundtable discussion “Fake it Til’ You Make It” Forgeries, Fakes Identities, and Misinformation During the Early Modern Period. September 23, 2020. Committee for Early Modern Studies.
Associate professor Nancy Locke’s essay “Work, Labor, Matter: Warren Rohrer’s Abstraction” appears in Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer, edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson.
Assistant Teaching Professor Heather McCune Bruhn and Maureen Feineman (Geosciences) led “Making Paint from Ochre Pigment: A STEAM Lesson.” July 26, 2020. Pennsylvania Art Education Association.
Assistant professor Chang Tan co-hosted with Laura Kina (University of DePaul) the a virtual symposium and workshop, “Remaking Worlds: The Geographical Imagination of Global Asias through Art & Visual Culture.” March 15-19, 2020. Global Asias Summer Institute.
Assistant professor Chang Tan published “Politics of the (In)visible: Yumen and Zhuang Hui’s Anti-Art Photography.” Art Journal,Volume 79, 2020 – Issue 2, pp. 24-41.
Assistant Teaching Professor Heather McCune Bruhn (coauthored) the article “Spectral 3D reconstruction of impressionist oil paintings based on macroscopic OCT imaging.” Applied Optics, Volume 59, Issue 15, 2020. pp. 4733-4738.
Associate professor Madhuri Desai presented “Between Region and Kingdom: Landscape, Politics, and Architecture in Maratha Vidarbha.” as the invited keynote speaker at the Rutgers Graduate Symposium. April 24, 2020.
Associate professor William Dewey gave a virtual gallery talk “African Brilliance: A Diplomat’s Sixty Years of Collecting.” April 20, 2020. Palmer Museum of Art.
Associate professor Nancy Locke, Associate published “Charles Marville and the Landscapes of the Carrières d’Amérique.” History of Photography. March 13, 2020. pp. 251-265.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli co-edited with Amy R. Bloch The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Associate professor Madhuri Desai has been awarded a prestigious Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) for academic year 2020-21.
Professor Amara Solari and Linda Williams, University of Puget Sound presented “Painting Christ into a Corner: Monastic Painting as World Making in Sixteenth-Century Yucatán, Mexico” Mesoamerica Meetings, University of Texas, Austin. January 14-18, 2020.
Associate Elizabeth Walters presented a lecture on recent special finds from the Temple-Town Hierakonpolis Project at the Cairo Egyptian Museum at Tahrir Square, January 7, 2020.
Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Anthony Cutler and Merih Danalı Cantarella (MA 07) published “The Kariye Museum in Istanbul – a Byzantine masterpiece under threat.” Apollo Magazine. January 7, 2020.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli reviewed the exhibition, “Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence (The Frick Collection)”. Apollo Magazine. January 4, 2020.
2019
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli presented “Donatello’s Classicism” (a work in progress). CEMS. November 20, 2019
Assistant Teaching Professor Heather McCune Bruhn co-presented “Creating a Successful Online Interdisciplinary Course: Four Perspectives.” 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation held in Seville, Spain. November 11-13, 2019.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield reviewed “Thomas Crow’s Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820.” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Volume 18, Issue 2 Autumn 2019.
Associate professor Craig Zabel presented “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Modern Transportation.” Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. November 7-9, 2019.
Associate professor Amara Solari presented on her project “Maya Christian Murals of Yucatán: Indigenous Catholicism in Early Modern New Spain.” ADRI, November 4, 2019.
Assistant Teaching Professor Heather McCune Bruhn presented “Making Ochre Paint: Using Ancient Pigments in STEAM Lessons.” Pennsylvania Art Ed Association 2019 Conference. November 1, 2019.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield reviewed “Thomas Crow’s Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820.” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.Volume 18, Issue 2
Autumn 2019.
Assistant Teaching Professor Heather McCune Bruhn presented “Rocks, Minerals, and the History of Art.” National Association of Science Writers, Penn State. October 25-29, 2019.
Associate professor Madhuri Desai presented “The Mughal Temple in Banaras and Beyond.” Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. October 30, 2019.
Associate professor Craig Zabel has donated a collection of “Iconic Modern Chairs” for the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library in the Stuckeman Family Building
Associate Professor Nancy Locke gave a gallery talk on “Fantasy and Reality: The World According to Félix Buhot.” Palmer Museum of Art. October 18, 2019.
Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Anthony Cutler presented “Alterity in Byzantine and Early Islamic Art” and gave a public lecture “The Contagion of the Gaze.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 16, 2019.
Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Anthony Cutler presented “The Making and Meaning of the Great Byzantine Ivories” and “Breaking the Fourth Wall: a Pervasive Motif in Medieval Art and Modern Theory” Carleton College, Northfield, MN, October 14, 2019.
Associate professor Amara Solari presented “Coloring Catholicism: Maya Artists, Pigments, and Localized Theology in Early Modern Yucatan.” 1519, The Arrival of Strangers: Indigenous Art and Voices following the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. Getty Center, October 3-5, 2019.
Associate Professor William Dewey Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths. Fowler Museum at UCLA (2109).
Associate professor Nancy Locke presented “Piquer, plaquer: Cézanne, Pissarro, et la peinture au couteau à palette.” Aux limites de l’étude matérielle de la peinture: la reconstitution du geste artistique. Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, September 28, 2019.
Associate professor Amara Solari co-curated “Indigenous Roots/Routes: Contested Histories, Contemporary Experiences.” University Libraries, Special Collections.
Associate professor Amara Solari co-organized the American Society for Ethnohistory Conference. Penn State University. September 25-28, 2019.
Associate professor Amara Solari and Linda Williams, University of Puget Sound were awarded a NEH Grant for their project “Maya Christian Murals of Yucatán: Indigenous Catholicism in Early Modern New Spain.”
Associate professor Amara Solari gave a gallery talk “Ceremony and Purpose: The Pottery of Ancient Peru.” Palmer Museum of Art. August 2, 2019.
Associate professor Robin Thomas published “Slavery and Construction at the Royal Palace of Caserta”. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Volume 78: June 2019, pp. 167-186.
Associate professor William Dewey and his team won the AAMC (Association of Art Museum Curators) Award of Excellence 2019 award for the “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths” exhibition.
Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Anthony Cutler presented “Ivory and Ontology.” Byzantine Materiality, St. Vladimir’s Theological Seminary, Yonkers, NY. May 8-11, 2019.
Associate professor Madhuri Desai was awarded the 2019 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) for her book “Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City.”
Associate professor Sarah Rich and assistant professor Daniel Zolli led the workshop “Early/Modern Color: Masquerades and Make Overs.” Princeton University. May 3, 2019.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield curated the Pop Up exhibition “Get Real.” Palmer Museum of Art. April 26, 2019.
Associate professor William Dewey’s “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths” opened at the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC. April 17, 2019 – October 20, 2019.
Associate teaching professor Ethan Robey gave the gallery talk “From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space.” Palmer Museum of Art. April 5, 2019.
Associate professor Sarah Rich was awarded a 2019 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Associate professor Craig Zabel presented “P.T. Barnum’s Oddities, New York’s Newspaper Row, and the Flatiron.” Architecture Lecture Series, College of Engineering, Technology & Architecture, University of Hartford, April 3, 2019.
Associate professor Robin Thomas published “The pacte de famille and a famille des palais: Architecture and the Bourbons in the Eighteenth Century.” Cheiron, vol. 2 : pp. 137–163.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli was awarded a 2019-2020 Getty Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli was a recipient of Competitive Research Grants from the American Philosophical Society and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. March 2019.
Assistant professor Amara Solari presented “Coloration and the Creation of Maya Catholicism in early Modern Yucatan.” 16th Annual Paul and Erika Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthropology, Ohio State University. March 21, 2019.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli and Christopher Brown published “Bell on Trial: The Struggle for Sound after Savonarola.” Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 72, Issue 1, Spring 2019. pp. 54-96.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli presented “Making Up Materials: Donatello and Cosmetics” at the panel he is co-organizing “Red: The Blood of Quattrocento Sculpture,” Renaissance Society of America in Toronto. March 17-19, 2019.
Evan Pugh University professor Anthony Cutler gave a seminar on medieval and Asian ivories at Harvard University. March 4-5, 2019.
Associate professor Craig Zabel presented “‘Loftiness’ and Early New York Skyscrapers.” Palmer Museum of Art. February 19, 2019.
Associate professor Robin Thomas was awarded a College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Research Grant for 2018-2019 in support of his project entitled “Palaces of Reason: Royal Residences in Enlightenment Naples 1734-59.”
Associate professor Amara Solari presented “Blue. Green. Yax. Naming, Valence, and the Sacrality of Maya Blue.” CAA . February 14, 2019.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield reviewed “Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850–1900.”edited by Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski. CAAreviews.org. February 8, 2019.
Associate professor Sarah Rich presented “Color in the Making: Using Materiality Studies to Understand Artistic Colorants Through History.” ADRI. February 6, 2019.
Associate professor Sarah Rich hosted “Pigment Workshop: The Materiality of Artist’s Colors.” ADRI. January 25, 2019.
Associate professors Robin Thomas and Sarah Rich served as jurors in the William Hajjar “design a house for the future” State competition. January 18, 2019.
Associate professor Nancy Locke, Roslyn Brock Stern Visiting Scholar, presented “Rethinking Cézanne’s Doubt” January 15, and the workshop, “Impressionism and the Art of Medical Communication” January 16, 2019. Auburn University.
Professor Elizabeth Mansfield reviewed “Art History in Greece: Selected Essays” edited by Evgenios D. Matthiopoulos. Journal of Art Historiography. January 9, 2019.
Evan Pugh University professor Anthony Cutler presented “On the Transfer of Knowledge in Ivories of the Medieval Mediterranean.” Archaeological Institute of America. January 6, 2019.
2018
Associate professor William Dewey’s exhibition “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths” travels to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Touring dates: February 27 – October 20, 2019.
Associate professor Nancy Locke was the external examiner for a dissertation defense by Matthieu Leglise, “Manet après Manet (1900–1960): Le spectre du moderne,” at the Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, December 1, 2018.
Associate professor Madhuri Desai reviewed “Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India’s Mughal Architecture,” by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 77, Issue 4, November 2018, pp.1117-1119.
Associate professor Sarah Rich published “Scaling the Infinite” in Intimate Infinite.
Associate professor Craig Zabel, presented “The Flatiron Building: Sublime Perceptions of a Modern Icon,” the Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, Baltimore, November 8-10, 2018.
Associate professor Robin Thomas delivered a work-in-progress lecture “Palace as Palimpsest: the Royal Palace at Portici” at the Center for Modern Studies lunch, October 17, 2018.
Evan Pugh University professor Anthony Cutler gave a lecture titled “Alan’s ‘Bare Basilius’: When Historians and Art Historians Coalesce.” Columbia University, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean: Conference in Memory of Alan Cameron.
Associate professor Sarah Rich and assistant professor Daniel Zolli hosted “BUGS, BOULDERS, BEAKERS: The Materiality of Artists’ Colors,” October 5-6, 2018.
Assistant teaching professor Heather McCune Bruhn hosted “Rocks, Minerals, and the History of Art,” Borland Project Space, October 1-6, 2018.
Associate professor Nancy Locke took part in a discussion (along with Dr. Christopher Reed, Department of English) at the celebration of the release of the book by Dr. Willa Z. Silverman, Henri Vever: Champion de l’art nouveau (Paris: Armand Colin, 2018), Department of French and Francophone Studies, September 14, 2018.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli published “Through a Mirror, Darkly: Medardo Rosso and Donatello,” The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return, eds. Alina Payne and Lina Bolzoni (Milan and Cambridge [MA]: Officina Libreria and Harvard University Press, 2018), pp. 289–312.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli presented “Donatello’s Martelli Stemma: The Patron Dis-Armed,” American Association for Italian Studies, Sant’Anna Institute in Sorrento, Italy. June 14-17, 2018.
Assistant professor Daniel Zolli organized the panel “Disobedient Objects,” American Association for Italian Studies, Sant’Anna Institute in Sorrento, Italy. June 14-17, 2018.
Associate professor Craig Zabel presented “The American Arts & Crafts Home: From Gustav Stickley to Frank Lloyd Wright,” the Old House Fair, The Match Factory, Bellefonte, PA. June 8, 2018.
Associate professor Elizabeth Walters presented “Hierakonpolis water festival and an early Mammisi, precursor shared with Tutankhamun,” 4th International Tutankhamun GEM Conference, at The Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo. May 5-7, 2018.
Associate professor Sarah Rich spoke at the Guggenheim at the symposium with Stony Brook on Joan Mitchell, materiality and gestural abstraction. May 11, 2018.
Associate professor Robin Thomas took part in the discussion “Teaching Southern Italy,” Renaissance Society of America Conference, New Orleans. March 23, 2018.
Assistant professor Chang Tan presented “Crafting Impermanence: Qiu Zhijie’s Copying of the Heart Sutra,” College Art Association Conference, Los Angles. February 22, 2018.