C. Jean Campbell

Associate Professor
Winship Distinguished Research Professor

Art History Department
Emory University
M39 Carlos Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322

Curriculum Vitae

C. JEAN CAMPBELL (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1992).

Research Interests

Art and literature in Renaissance Italy; courtly culture and urban mythologies in late medieval Italy; vernacular poetics and the visual arts; portraiture and biography in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance

Selected Publications

“Pier Maria Rossi’s Treasure: Love Knowledge and the Invention of the Source in the Camera
d’oro at Torrechiara,” in Marche ed Emilia: l’identità visiva della “periferia”, ed. Giancarla Periti ( Bergamo: Bolis, 2005).

“’Symoni nostro senensi nuper iocundissima:’ The Court Artist, Heart, Mind and Hand,” in
The Renaissance Court Artist, ed. Stephen J. Campbell ( Boston: Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).

“The City’s New Clothes: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Poetics of Peace,” Art Bulletin
83 (2001): 240-258.

“The Lady in the Council Chamber: Diplomacy and Poetry in Simone Martini’s
Maestà,” Word & Image 14 (1998):371-386.

The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of San Gimignano,
1290-1320 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997).

“Courting, Harlotry and the Art of Gothic Ivory Carving,” Gesta 34 (1995): 11-19.

Current Projects

Books:

Art and the Praise of Nature in the Age of Dante. Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, forthcoming Spring 2008.

“Simone Martini and the Origins of Vernacular Style,” in progress.

Articles:

“Simone Martini, Petrarch and Vernacular Poetics of Early Renaissance Art,” in Dialogues in Art History: A 25 th Anniversary Symposium, ed. Elizabeth Cropper, Studies in the History of Art, forthcoming.

“Mythmaking, Poetic Genealogies and the Origins of Urban Nobility: Giovanni Boccaccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, ” under review.

Selected Seminars

History, Poetry, Ritual and the Art the Italian Cities, 1250-1500; Art, Nature, Renaissance; On Meaning in Renaissance Art; Portraiture and Biography in the Renaissance