Walter Melion

FIELD:

Northern Renaissance and Baroque art, with an emphasis on Netherlandish art and art theory; early modern printmaking; meditative and mnemonic imagery; Jesuit studies.

EDUCATION:

B.A., European Intellectual History, 1975; University of California, Santa Cruz

Honors Thesis: Rembrandt's Landscapes of the 1630's (supervisor: Professor Svetlana Alpers, University of California, Berkeley)

M.A., History of Art, 1978; University of California, Berkeley

Thesis: Strategies of Inversion in Pieter Aertsen's Religious-Secular Works (supervisors: Professors Lawrence Silver, Svetlana Alpers, and Jan de Vries)

Ph.D., History of Art, 1988; University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation: "Onser consten doorluchtighe oeffenaers namen ": The Critical History of Northern Art in Books I-IV of Karel van Mander"s "Schilder-Boeck" (supervisors: Professors Svetlana Alpers, Andrew Stewart, and Stephen Greenblatt)

LANGUAGES:

Latin (classical and neo-Latin); Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Highest honors and college honors at graduation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1975

Highest honors at doctoral examinations, 1979

Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, Universität Albert-Ludwigs, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1975-76

California Graduate Fellowship, 1976-79

University Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-79

Kress Foundation Fellowship, Warburg Institute, University of London, 1980-81

Humanities Graduate Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1981

Belgian-American Educational Foundation Fellowship, Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven, 1981-82

Residential Research Fellowships, Herzog August Bibliothek Fellowship, Wolfenbüttel, 1983 & 1985

Duke University Research Council Stipends, 1984, 1985, and 1986

National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1989

Getty Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1990-91 (declined)

Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant, College Art Association, 1991

Emory University Research Committee Grant, 1993-94

Lovis Corinth Visiting Professorship, Emory University, 2000-2001

Emory University Conference Subvention Fund, 2006- 2007, for the Second Lovis Corinth Colloquium, AUt pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700"

PUBLICATIONS

 Books:

Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander =s ASchilder-Boeck @(Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1991)

 The Art of Vision in Jerome Nadal =s AAdnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia @[Volume 1 of Jerome Nadal, AAnnotations and Meditations on the Liturgical Gospels, @ trans. Father F. Homann, S.J.] (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph =s University Press, 2003)

 Editions:

Cultural Differentiation and Cultural Identityin the Visual Arts, co-ed., S. Kuechler (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1989)

 Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation, co-ed., S. J. Barnes (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991)

Articles:

Karel van Mander 's "Life of Hendrick Goltzius": Defining the Paradigm of Protean Virtuosity in Haarlem around 1600, Studies in the History of Art 27 (1989): 113-33

Hendrick Goltzius's Project of Reproductive Engraving, Art History 13 (1990): 458-87

Memory, Cognition, and Image-Production: Hendrick Goltzius, in S. Küchler and W. Melion, eds., Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991): 1-46, 203-212

Memory and the Kinship of Writing and Picturing in the Early Seventeenth-Century Netherlands, Word & Image 8 (1992): 48-70

Piety and Pictorial Manner in Hendrick Goltzius's Early Life of the Virgin, in G. Harcourt, ed., Hendrick Goltzius and the Classical Tradition [exh. cat., Fisher Gallery, U.S.C., Los Angeles] (Los Angeles, 1992): 44-51

Love and Artisanship in Hendrick Goltzius's Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres 0f 1606, Art History 16 (1993): 60-94

Theory and Practice: Reproductive Engraving in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands, in T. Riggs and L. Silver, eds., Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640 [exh. Cat., Block Gallery, Northwestern University; Ackland Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill] (Evanston, 1993): 47-69

Karel van Mander et les origines du discours historique sur l'art dans les Pays-Bas au XVIIe siècle, in E. Pommier, ed., Histoire de l'histoire de l'art de l'Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1996): 1-49

Self-Imaging and the Engraver's Virtù: Hendrick Goltzius =s Pietà of 1598, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 46 (1996): 105-43

Memorabilia aliquot Romanae strenuitatis exempla: The Thematics of Artisanal Virtue in Hendrick Goltzius's Roman Heroes, Modern Language Notes 110 (1995): 1090-1134

Calligraphers and Calligraphy, 1550-1650, AHendrick Goltzius, AKarel van Mander, and AWriters on Art, 16th and 17th Centuries, in S. Muller, ed., Dutch Art from 1475 to 1900: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Press, 1997): 53-55, 158-59, 427-28, 455-57

Ego enim quasi obdormivi: Salvation and Blessed Sleep in Philip Galle's Death of the Virgin after Pieter Bruegel, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 47 (1996): 15-53

Pictorial Artifice and Catholic Devotion in Abraham Bloemaert's Virgin of Sorrows with the Holy Face of c. 1615, in H. Kessler and G. Wolf, eds., The Holy Face and the Paradox of Representation (Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1998): 319-40

Artifice, Memory, and Reformatio in Hieronymus Natalis's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia, Renaissance and Reformation 22 (1998/9): 5-34.

Ad ductum itineris & dispositionem mansionum ostendendam: Meditation, Vocation, and Sacred History in Abraham Ortelius's Parergon, Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 57 (1999): 49-72.

Vivae dixisses virginis ora: The Discourse of Color in Hendrick Goltzius's Pygmalion and the Ivory Statue, Word & Image (2000): 153-76

Cordis circumcisio in spiritu: Imitation and the Wounded Christ in Hendrick Goltzius's Circumcision of 1594, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (2001): 31-77

Georg Mach the Elder's Painted Version of Hieronymus Wiericx's Trinity, in S. Dackerman, ed., Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts [exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art, St. Louis Museum of Art] (University Park, 2002): 186-90

Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck of 1604, in C. Murray, ed., Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 2002): 89-95

Benedictus Arias Montanus and the Virtual Studio as a Meditative Place, in M. Cole and M. Pardo, eds., Inventions of the Studio: Renaissance to Romanticism (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005): 73-107, 196-201

Mortis illius imagines ut vitae: The Image of the Glorified Christ in Jerome Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia, in F. A. Homann, S.J., trans. and ed., Jerome Nadal, Annotationes and Meditations on the Gospels, Volume III: The Resurrection Narratives; (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2005): 1-32

Reviews:

"The World between Good and Bad ": Ilja M. Veldman, De Wereld tussen Goed en Kwaad: Late prenten van Coornhert (The Hague: SDU uitgeverij, 1990), in Print Quarterly 9 (1992): 88-90

Craig Harbison, Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism (London: Reaktion Books, 1991), in Renassance Quarterly 47 (1994): 457-59

APamela M. Jones, Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana: Art Patronage and Reform in 17 th-Century Milan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) and Clare Robertson, "Gran Cardinale " Alessandro Farnese, Patron of the Arts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), in Art Bulletin 77 (1995): 324-29

AEthan Matt Kavaler, Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and Enterprise (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), in Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 605-606

AKeith Moxey, The Practice of Persuasion: Paradoxes and Power in Art History (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001), in Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 1260-61

AHuigen Leeflang, Ger Luijten, Lawrence W. Nichols et al., Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints, and Paintings (Zwolle: Waanders, 2003), in C.A.A. Online Reviews (2004)

AHuigen Leeflang, Ger Luijten, Lawrence W. Nichols et al., Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints, and Paintings (Zwolle: Waanders, 2003), in Kunstform Online Reviews (2004) [N.B. This is a different and longer review than the C.A.A. Online Review.]

FORTHCOMING

 Books:

The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550-1625 (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, Fall 2006)

Lovis Corinth Colloquia I: Image & Imagination of the Religious Self in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. R. Falkenburg, W. S. Melion, and T. Richardson (Turnhout: Brepols Press, Fall 2006)

Articles:

The Meditative Function of Hendrick Goltziu 's Life of the Virgin of 1593-94, in R. Falkenburg, W. S. Melion, T. Richardson, eds., Image and Imagination of the Religious Selft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols Press, Fall 2006)

Ex libera meditatione: Visualizing the Sacrificial Christ in Jerónimo Nadal's "Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, " in M. Kupfer, ed., The Passion of Christ (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State Press, 2007)

Sacred History and Sacred Emblem on the Sea of Tiberias: Jerome Nadal on the Penultimate Apparition of the Risen Christ, in R. Faesen and W. Francois, eds., Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovanienisum (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2007)

"Nor my praise to graven images": Divine Artifice and the Heart's Idols in Georg Mack the Elder's Painted Print of The Trinity, in M. Cole and R. Zorach, eds., The Renaissance Idol (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2007)

PAPERS:

Karel van Mander on Memory and the Sisterhood of Schrijfconst and Schilderconst

College Art Association, National Conference, Session: Canon-Formation in the Netherlands from Van Mander to Houbraken, Washington, D.C., 1991

ASelf-Imaging and Virtù in the Vienna Pietà of Hendrick Goltzius. Historians of Netherlandish Art, National Conference, Boston, 1993

AThe Thematics of Exemplary Christian Service in Hendrick Goltzius's Dedication Plates of the 1590s.

College Art Association, National Conference, Session: ANotions of Exemplarity in Religious Art of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, New York, 1994

AProdigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: The Codification of the Unfamiliar in Dutch Imagery of the New World. Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Reed College, 1994

AVera verecunda est ars et taciturna: Artifice and Virtue in Hendrick Goltzius's Pietà of 1598. Department of Classics and Centre Louis Marin, The Johns Hopkins University, With Text or Without: How Do You Read Images?, 1995

Memorabilia aliquot Romanae strenuitatis exempla: The Thematics of Artisanal Virtue in Hendrick Goltzius's Roman Heroes.

Department of French and Centre Louis Marin, The Johns Hopkins University, AThe Myth of the Ancients, 1995

Artifice and Reformatio in Hieronymus Natalis's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia.

Villa Spelman Seminar, The Johns Hopkins University, Florence, 1996; Renaissance Society of America, National Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington, 1996; Department of the History of Art, Robert Lehman Lecture, Emory University, 1997; Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997

Memory, Place, and Mission in Hieronymus Natalis's Evangelicae historiae imagines. XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art, Amsterdam, 1996

AEgo enim quasi obdormivi: Salvation and Blessed Sleep in Philip Galle's Death of the Virgin after Pieter Bruegel. The History Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997

APictorial Artifice and Catholic Devotion in Abraham Bloemaert's Virgin of Sorrows with the Holy Face of c. 1615. The Bibliotheca Hertziana and Villa Spelman, The Holy Face Conference, 1996; Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997

ACordis circumcisio in spiritu: Imitation and the Wounded Christ in Hendrick Goltzius's Circumcision of 1594.

Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, 1997; (revised and expanded version) Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Renaissance Studies, and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998; Lovis Corinth Lectureship, Art History Department, Emory University, 2000

AVivae dixisses virginis ora: The Discourse of Color in Hendrick Goltzius's Pygmalion and the Ivory Statue.

Historians of Netherlandish Art, National Conference, Baltimore, 1998; M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, APrinting Matters: The Materiality of Print in Early Modern Europe, Harvard University Art Museums, 1998; (revised and expanded version) Department of the History of Art, University of Southern California, 1998

AAd ductum itineris et dispositionem mansionum ostendendam: Meditation, Vocation, and Sacred HAbraham Ortelius's Parergon: Panoramic Landscape and the Mapping of the Meditative Ductus. Department of the History of Art Symposium, ALandscape: Cosmology and Place, University of Washington, Seattle, 1999

Ars adeo latet arte sua: Love and Artifice in Hendrick Goltzius's Pygmalion and the Ivory Statue of 1593. Lovis Corinth Lectureship, Art History Department, Emory University, 1999

Oratio and Reformatio in Hendrick Goltzius =s Adoration of the Magi of 1605. Society for Reformation Research Session, AVision and Devotion, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, 1999

Religion and the Arts: The State of the Field in Sixteenth-Century Studies; Society for Reformation Research Plenary Session, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, 1999

Virtutis tacitae ut lumina non videant?: Love, Judgment, and the Trope of Vision in Benedictus Arias Montanus's Divinarum nuptiarum conventa et acta and Christi Jesu vitae admirabiliumque actionum speculum

College Art Association, National Conference, Session: ANew Directions in the Study of Devotional Art in Northern Europe, New York, 2000

The Art of Vision in Hieronymus Natalis's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 2000; Charles S. Singleton Seminar, Villa Spelman, Johns Hopkins University, Florence, 2002

From Dusk to Dawn: Time, Vision, and Meditative Prayer in Hendrick Goltzius's Adoration of the Shepherds of 1594"; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University, 2001; American Academy in Rome, 20

Love, Judgment, and the Trope of Vision in Benedictus Arias Montanus's Divine Nuptials and Mirror of the Life of Christ ; Lovis Corinth Lectureship, Art History Department, Emory University, 2001

Benedictus Arias Montanus and the Creation of the Virtual Studio as a Meditative Place; Bettie Allison Rand Lecture in Art History, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001

Penance and the Meditative Catena in Melchior Model's Septem Psalmi Davidici of 1608"; Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Denver, 2001

Seeing Through Allegory: Vision, Insight, and Historical Truth in Hieronymus Natalis =s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia ; Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Antwerp, 2002; Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, 2002

Crossing Confessional Lines in Georg Mach the Elder's Lutheran/Catholic Trinity ; Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Antwerp, 2002

Stupent omnes ad conspectum Iesu: Benedictus Arias Montanus and Hieronymus Natalis on the Betrayal of Christ; Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, 2002

The Reformation of the Hand and Heart in Hendrick Goltzius's Adoration Imagery; Boston University and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mediators: Medium and Its Messages, Philadelphia, 2003

"And Joseph by the Labour of his Hands Furnished Life's Necessities": St. Joseph as Artisan and Votary in Jesuit Devotion of the Late Sixteenth Century; St. Joseph,s University, 12 th Annual St. Joseph's Lecture, Philadelphia, 2003

"Nor My Praise to Graven Images": Divine Artifice and the Heart's Idols in Georg Mack the Elder's Painted Print of The Trinity; Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto, 2003

Stupent omnes ad conspectum Iesu: Vision, Insight, and Historical Truth in the Garden of Gethsemane; Pomona College, Westergaard Center for the Study of Northern Europe, AKnowledge and its Making in Northern Europe (1500-1800), Claremont, 2003

The Reformation of Hand and Heart in Hendrick Goltzius's Adoration of the Magi of 1605"; Department of History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003

The Meditative Catena and the Ornament of Blood in Hieronymus Wiericx's Septem Psalmi ; Davidici of 1605"; Renaissance Studies Faculty Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003

Joseph and the Votary's Eyes in Hendrick Goltzius Life of the Virgin of 1593-94"; Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, 2003

Et Josephum labore manuum vitae necessaria paravisse: Joseph as Artisan and Votary in Hieronymus Wiericx's Infancy of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, 2003

Problems in the Study of the Northern Devotional Print: A Series of Three Lecture-Seminars

1. The Trope of Vision in Benedictus Arias Montanus's Divinarum nuptiarum conventa et acta and Christi Jesu vitae admirabiliumque actionum speculum

2. The Meditative Catena and the Blood of Christ in Hieronymus Wiericx =s Septem Psalmi Davidici

3. The Phenomenology of Vision in Hendrick Goltzius's Adoration Imagery; École des Hautes Études en Science Sociale, Paris, 2004

The Reformation of Hand and Heart in Hendrick Goltzius's Adoration of the Magi of 1605, Department of History of Art, University of Chicago, 2004; Department of Art History, Emory University, 2004

Saint Joseph and Justification by Sight in Hendrick Goltzius's Life of the Virgin of 1593-94"; Renaissance Society of America Conference, New York, 2004

Ut pictura anima: The Virtual Studio of the Picturing Soul in the Meditative Treatises of Benito Arias Montano; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2004, AMeditation and the Exercises of Discourse and Visuality: Early Modern Practices and Contemporary Theory.

Ad contemplationis aciem: The Image of the Picturing Soul in Antonius Sucquet's Via vitae aeternae of 1620"; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 2004

Art History Roundtable: "Is Art History?" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 2004

Mortis illius imagines ut vitae: The Image of the glorified Christ in Jerome Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia, plenary lecture; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, 2005, Emblemata Sacra: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Illustrated Religious Literature

Similis factus sum pellicano solitudinis: The Wilderness of the Picturing Soul in Antonius Sucquet's Via vitae aeternae of 1625; Renaissance Society of America Conference, Cambridge, U.K., 2005

The Meditative Function of Hendrick Goltzius's Life of the Virgin

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, plenary lecture to mark the exhibition The "Master Prints" of Hendrick Goltzius and Mannerist Art; AIcon and Presence in Otto van Veen's Road to Calvary of c. 1600"; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Historians of Netherlandish Art Session: Visual Culture in the Netherlands, 1400-1700, Atlanta, 2005

The Meditative Function of Protean Imitation in Hendrick Goltzius's Life of the Virgin of 1593-94"; Institute of Fine Art, New York, 2005, Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe; "Nor my praise to graven images ": Divine Artifice and the Heart's Idols in a Sixteenth-Century Painted Print of The Trinity ; Emory University, European Studies Seminar, 2005

Sacred History and Sacred Emblem on the Sea of Tiberias: Jerome Nadal on the Penultimate Apparition of the Risen Christ; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, 2005

Peter Paul Rubens: Mediating and Activating Sacred Space; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, 2005

Eros and Imitation in Hendrick Goltzius's Life of the Virgin of 1593-94"; Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Francisco, 2006

SYMPOSIA , COLLOQUIA, AND CONFERENCE PANELS:

Organizer and chair: ARepresentation and Iconoclasm: Circumscribing the Power of Images University of California, Berkeley, 1980

Organizer and chair: Hendrick Goltzius: A Symposium; Baltimore Museum of Art and Johns Hopkins University, 1987

Co-organizer and co-chair: AMemory, Cognition, and the Production of Images; Program in Art History and Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 1988

Organizer and chair: ACanon-Formation in the Netherlands from Van Mander to Houbraken; College Art Association, National Conference, Washington, D.C., 1991

Organizer and chair: ANotions of Exemplarity in Religious Art of the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; College Art Association, National Conference, New York, 1994

Co-organizer and co-chair: AEarly Modern Images of Liturgical and Meditative Prayer; College Art Association, National Conference, Chicago, 2001

Organizer and chair: Modes of Allegorical Construction in Early Modern Image-Making; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, 2002

Co-organizer and co-chair: AImage and Imagination of the Religious Self in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; The Lovis Corinth Research Symposium, Department of Art History, Emory University, 2003

Organizer and chair: AThe Wiericx's of Antwerp: Vision, Devotion, and the Engraver's Hand; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, 2003

Organizer: AUt pictura anima: Picturing the Soul in Meditative Theory and Practice; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 2004

Co-organizer and co-chair: AMeditation and the Exercises of Discourse and Visuality BEarly Modern Practices and Contemporary Theory; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2004

Co-organizer: Petrarch and the Visual Arts; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2004

Co-organizer: "Never lonely in solitude, never idle at leisure ": The Hermeneutics of the Solitary Life in the Literary and Visual Arts; Renaissance Society of America Conference, Cambridge, U.K., 2005

Organizer: AScripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in the Netherlands; Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, 2005

TEACHING POSITIONS:

Duke University, Department of Art History, Instructor, 1983-86

Johns Hopkins University, Department of History of Art, Instructor, 1986-88; Assistant Professor, 1988-92

Emory University, Department of Art History, Associate Professor, 1992-94

Johns Hopkins University, Department of History of Art, Professor, 1994-2001; Professor and Chair, 2001-04

Acting Director, Charles Singleton Research Seminar, Villa Spelman, Florence, January-June 2002

Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of History of Art, January 1999

Lovis Corinth Visiting Professor, Emory University, Department of Art History, 2000-01

Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Science Sociale, January 2004

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History (1.1.05), Emory University, 2004-present

TEACHING:

 Graduate seminars:

JHU010.667 Jesuit Reform of Art and Rhetoric

JHU010.668 The Visual Arts in Haarlem, 1550-1660

JHU010.669 The Visual Arts in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

JHU010.670 Rembrandt

JHU010.671 Pieter Bruegel

JHU010.672 Rubens

JHU010.673 Print Culture in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands

JHU010.674 Hendrick Goltzius

JHU010.675 Problems in the Study of Netherlandish Landscape Painting

EUArtHist749R Eucharistic Imagery and the Real Presence of Christ

EUArtHist749R History of Early Modern Printmaking

EUArtHist749R Problems in the Study of Peter Paul Rubens: Poetics of Painting

Undergraduate courses:

JHU010.102 Introduction to the History of European Art II

JHU010.301 The Altarpiece and its Functions, 1300-1700

JHU010.371 Art of the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century

JHU010.372 Art of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century

JHU010.373 History of Early Modern Printmaking

JHU010.374 Art of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century

JHU010.374 Introduction to the History of Northern Art

EUArt Hist252 European Painting 1600-1800

EUArtHist259 Religious Culture and the Northern Pictorial Tradition

EUArtHist349 The Altarpiece and its Functions, 1300-1700

EUArtHist475 History of Early Modern Printmaking

EUArtHist475 Problems in the Study of Peter Paul Rubens: Poetics of Painting

Honors Theses:

Alexia Rostoff, AIllustrative Functions of the Images in the Nuremburg Chronicle

Comprehensive Exams:

Sarahh Scherr, minor field in Art of the Viceregal Americas, 1600-1800

Doctoral Theses Committees:

Sienna Brown

Melissa Joliffe

Sarah Kyle

Sarahh Scher

Doctoral Dissertations:

Wendy Thompson, APigmei pizzicano dei Gigante: The Encounter between Netherlandish and Italian Artists in Seventeenth-Century Rome; Johns Hopkins University, 1997

Leopoldine Prosperetti, Jan Brueghel and the Landscape of Devotion: Spiritual Reform and Landscape Subjects in Antwerp Painting between 1595 and 1625"; Johns Hopkins University, 2004

Jamie Smith, AJan van Eyck and the Poetics of Sacred Painting; Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2006

 UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Johns Hopkins University:

Undergraduate Majors Adviser, Department of History of Art, 1990-92

Fulbright Fellowship Sub-Committee, 1995, 2003

Minority Graduate Student Adviser, 1994-96

Pre-Majors Adviser, 1995-98

Acting Chair, Department of History of Art, 1996-97

Library Advisory Committee, 1998-2002

Promotion and Tenure Ad Hoc Committee, 1998, 1999

Chair, Department of History of Art, 2001-04 (N.B. Departmental chair is also Director of Graduate Studies)

Chair, Departmental Search (position of Romanist), 2003-04

Chair, Departmental Search (position of Modernist), 2003-04

Emory University:

Majors Adviser, Department of Art History, 1992-94

Chair, Search Committee (position of senior Medievalist), Department of Art History, 1992-93

Emory Minority Graduate Fellowship Committee, 1993

Fulbright Fellowship Campus Committee, 1993

Advisory Committee, Program in Culture, History, and Theory, 1993-94

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art History, 1993-94

Undergraduate Adviser (7 majors), Art History Department, 2005-6

Library Representative, Art History Department, 2005-6

SIRE Undergraduate Research Project (Natalie Miller), 2005-6

Coordinator, AExchanging Bodies of Knowledge, @ Graduate Exchange Program between the Art History Departments of Emory and the University of Leiden, 2005-

Steering Committee, European Studies Initiative, 2006-

Chair, Planning Committee, European Studies Seminar, 2006-7

Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-8

MEMBERSHIPS

Historians of Netherlandish Art

College Art Association

Renaissance Society of America

Sixteenth Century Studies Society

EXTRA MURAL

Historians of Netherlandish Art, Scholarly Steering Committee, National Conference, 1998

Fine Arts Accessions Committee, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1994-2004