Speaker's Curriculum

Walter Melion

Walter Melion is a professor of the History of Art at The Johns Hopkins University. His Ph.D. is from the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and researches on the Northern Renaissance and Baroque with emphases on Netherlandish art and art theory, early modern prints and print culture, meditative and mnemonic imagery, and images in Jesuit devotional practices. Professor Melion held the Lovis Corinth Chair in Northern Renaissance Art at Emory in 2000-2001.

Selected Publications

Melion, Walter. Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's "Schilder-Boeck." Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
° Melion, Walter, ed. Cultural Differentiation and Cultural Identity in the Visual Arts. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1989.
° Melion, Walter and Susanne Küchler, eds. Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.