Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Members of the Center
Samuel H. Kress Professor
John House
Courtauld Institute of Art
Andrew W. Mellon Professor
Miguel Falomir
Museo Nacional del Prado
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, fall 2008
Nancy J. Troy
University of Southern California
Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, spring 2009
T. J. Clark
University of California–Berkeley
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
Luisa Elena Alcalá
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
The Virgin of Loreto and the Jesuits in Colonial Mexico
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellows
Jonathan Unglaub
Brandeis University
Painting as Parthenogenesis: Raphael's Sistine Madonna
Nino Zchomelidse
Princeton University
The Medieval Image and Concepts of Authenticity
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellows
Andrew Carrington Shelton
The Ohio State University
Achille Devéria: Art, Identity, and Commerce in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
University of California–Davis
The City and Its Reverse: Performing Space and Gender in Islamic Urbanism
Rebecca Zorach
University of Chicago
Passionate Angles: The Triangle in Renaissance Culture
Visiting Senior Fellowship Program
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2008
Dario L. Gamboni
Université de Genève
Gauguin “in the Heart of Thought”
Lisa Pon
Southern Methodist University
Forlí's Madonna of the Fire: Image, Cult, Community
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2008
Olivier Lugon
Université de Lausanne
Learning from Photographs: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Photography
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow/Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, fall 2008
Luigi Sperti
Università di Venezia
Architectural Decoration and Classical Tradition in Early Renaissance Venice
Postdoctoral Fellow
Douglas Brine
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007–2009
The Content and Context of Wall-Mounted Memorials in the Burgundian Netherlands
Predoctoral Fellowship Program
Predoctoral Fellows
in residence
S. Adam Hindin
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2007–2009
[Harvard University]
Knowledge, Memory, and Ethnic Commitment in Bohemian Visual Culture, 1200–1450
Ashley Elizabeth Jones
David E. Finley Fellow, 2006–2009
[Yale University]
“Lord, Protect the Wearer”: Late-Antique Numismatic Jewelry and the Image of the Emperor as Talismanic Device
Joan Kee
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2007–2009
[New York University, Institute of Fine Arts]
Points, Lines, Encounters: The Paintings of Lee Ufan and Park Seobo
Michele Matteini
Ittleson Fellow, 2007–2009
[New York University, Institute of Fine Arts]
Painting in the Age of Evidential Scholarship (Kaozheng): Luo Ping's Late Years, c. 1770–1799
Cammie McAtee
Wyeth Fellow, 2007–2009
[Harvard University]
The “Search for Form” in Postwar American Architecture
Kristin Romberg
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2006–2009
[Columbia University]
Gan's Constructivism
Joyce Tsai
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2007–2009
[The Johns Hopkins University]
Painting after Photography: László Moholy-Nagy, 1921–1936
Predoctoral Fellows
not in residence
Sinem Arcak
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of Minnesota]
Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1501–1639
Marisa Bass
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2008–2009
[Harvard University]
A Circle Apart: Jan Gossaert and the Scope of Humanist Painting in the Netherlands
Wen-shing Chou
Ittleson Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of California–Berkeley]
Where Our Journeys End: Visions, Exchanges, and Encounters in Early Modern Representations of Mount Wutai
Ivan Drpic
David E. Finley Fellow, 2007–2010
[Harvard University]
Kosmos of Verse: Art and Epigram in Late Byzantium
Christina R. Ferando
David E. Finley Fellow, 2008–2011
[Columbia University]
Staging Neoclassicism: Exhibitions of Antonio Canova's Sculptures
George F. Flaherty
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of California–Santa Barbara]
Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico City
Beatrice Kitzinger
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2008–2011
[Harvard University]
Real Presence and Ritual Presence: The Early Medieval Processional Cross and Its Representations
Albert Narath
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2007–2010
[Columbia University]
Rediscovering the Baroque: Architecture, History, and Politics in Austria and Germany
Andrei Pop
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2008–2010
[Harvard University]
Neopaganism: Henry Fuseli, Theater, and the Cultural Politics of Antiquity
Catherine Walden
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2008–2009
[University of Virginia]
Redemption and Remembrance: The English Episcopal Tomb in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Tobias Wofford
Wyeth Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of California–Los Angeles]
Constructing Africa: The Visualization of Homeland and Diaspora in African-American Art of the 1960s and 1970s
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad
Dana Byrd
[Yale University]
Maggie Cao
[Harvard University]
Jessica Horton
[University of Rochester]
Hannah Wong
[University of Texas at Austin]