Speaker's Curriculum

Larry Silver

Larry Silver is the Farquhar Professor in Northern Renaissance Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a Masters and Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern, and Smith before moving to Penn. His research covers a range of Northern Renaissance topics including printmaking, the patronage of the Emperor Maximilian I, and the work of the artists Quentin Massys, Peter Bruegel, and Rembrandt, among others.

Selected Publications

° Silver, Larry (with Timothy Riggs). Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1460. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1993.
° Silver, Larry. Rembrandt, (Rizzoli Art Series). New York: Rizzoli, 1992.
° ________. The Paintings of Quentin Massys. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld and Schram, 1984; London: Phaidon, 1984.
° ________. "The Influence of Anxiety: The Agony in the Garden as Artistic theme in the Era of Dürer," Umeni 45 (1997): 420-29.