by Jon Lackman | 1 September 2010 | Awards
From The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art:
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for 2010–2011. They include Joseph J. Rishel, Philadelphia Museum of Art, as Samuel H. Kress Professor; Carmen C. Bambach, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as Andrew W. Mellon Professor; and Victor I. Stoichita, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, as Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor for spring 2011. Mary Beard of the University of Cambridge has been named the 60th A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts for spring 2011.
CASVA also announced the appointment of seven senior and four visiting senior fellows, two postdoctoral fellows, 18 predoctoral fellows, and three predoctoral fellowships for historians of American art to travel abroad.
Other fellows and their projects:
Elizabeth Sears
Warburg Circles: Toward a Cultural-Historical History of Art, 1929–1964Daniela Bohde
Disarray on Calvary: Passion Scenes in Early Sixteenth-Century German ArtCammy Brothers
Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of RomeLaura Weigert
Images in Action: The Theatricality of Franco-Flemish Art in the Late Middle AgesSarah Betzer
Surface and Depth: Antiquity and the Body after ArchaeologyRachel Kousser
Ancient Iconoclasm: Destroying the Power of Images in Greece, 480–31 BCJohn-Paul Stonard
Against Henry MooreHeather McPherson
The Artist’s Studio and the Image of the Artist in Nineteenth-Century FranceLucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
The Emblematic GardenFredrika H. Jacobs
Dialogues of Devotion: Votive Panel Paintings in Renaissance Italy, c. 1450–1610Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
The London Square, 1580 to the PresentMegan E. O’Neil
The Lives of Ancient Maya SculpturesMarden Fitzpatrick Nichols
Vitruvius on Display: Domestic Decor and Roman Self-Fashioning at the End of the RepublicPriyanka Basu
Kunstwissenschaft and the “Primitive”: Excursions in the History of Art History, 1880–1925Shira Brisman
The Handwritten Letter and the Work of Art in the Age of the Printing Press, 1490–1530Christina Ferando
Staging Canova: Sculpture, Connoisseurship, and Display, 1780–1822Dipti Khera
Picturing India’s “Land of Princes” between the Mughal and British Empires:
Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and Its EnvironsBeatrice Kitzinger
Crucifix and Crucifixion in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Breton Gospel Books: The Early Medieval Liturgical Cross and Its RepresentationsJason David LaFountain
The Puritan Art WorldLisa Lee
Sculpture’s Condition/Conditions of Publicness: Isa Genzken and Thomas HirschhornBenjamin Anderson
World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle AgesDana E. Byrd
Reconstructions: The Visual and Material Cultures of the Plantation, 1861–1877Jason Di Resta
“Crudeliter accentuando eructant”: Rethinking Center and Periphery in the Art of Giovanni Antonio da PordenoneRazan Francis
Secrets of the Arts: Enlightenment Spain’s Contested Islamic Craft HeritageMeredith Gamer
Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain’s Early Modern Eighteenth CenturyNathaniel B. Jones
Nobilibus pinacothecae sunt faciundae: The Inception of the Fictive Picture Gallery in Augustan RomeDi Yin Lu
Reassigning Civilization: Cultural Property Law Enforcement in Shanghai, 1949–1978Kate Nesin
Twombly’s Things: The Sculptures of Cy TwomblyAnna Lise Seastrand
Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Mural Paintings, 1500–1800Jennifer M. S. Stager
The Embodiment of Color in Ancient Mediterranean ArtMiya Tokumitsu
“Die Kleine, die Feine, die Reine, die Eine”: The Sculpture of Leonhard Kern (1588–1662)
