News Release: 24 September 1999
National Gallery of Arts Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Announces 1999 - 2000 Appointments
Washington, DC -- The National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) announces the appointment of Mina Gregori as Samuel H. Kress Professor for 1999 - 2000. Malcolm Bell III continues for a second year as Andrew W. Mellon Professor for 1998-2000.
The Center also announces the appointment of twenty senior and visiting senior fellows and ten pre-doctoral fellows for the 1999 - 2000 academic year. Fellowship applications were reviewed by an external committee of art historians who form CASVA's rotating board of advisors. The appointments were ratified by the Gallery's board of trustees. CASVA was founded twenty years ago to promote study of the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism, through the formation of a community of scholars. A variety of private sources supports the program of fellowships.
The position of Samuel H. Kress Professor was created by the National Gallery of Art in 1965. It is reserved for a distinguished art historian, who, as the senior member of the Center, pursues scholarly work and counsels pre-doctoral fellows in their dissertation research.
Samuel H. Kress Professor Mina Gregori has been professor of history of medieval and modern art at the University of Florence, Italy, since 1950, where she also received her education. Professor Gregori is editor-in-chief of Paragone, president of Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi, and editor of Cassa di Risparmio delle Province Lombarde, "Pittura in Lombardia" series. Her publications include Pittura murale in Italia (exhibition catalogue, Turin, 1995), and Rubens e Firenze (exhibition catalogue, Florence, 1983).
The position of Andrew W. Mellon Professor was created in 1994 for distinguished academic or museum professionals. Mellon Professors serve two consecutive years and pursue independent research at CASVA.
Professor Malcolm Bell received both his B.A. (1963) and his Ph. D. (1972) from Princeton University and was the Mellon Professor at the American Academy in Rome (1991-1992, 1993-1996). He is president of the Comitato per l'Archeologia Laziale (1995-present) and serves as co-editor of the series Morgantina Studies (1990-present). His publications include Morgantina Studies, vol. 1, The Terracottas (Princeton, 1982), and Antichità senza provenienza (editor, in press).
Members of the Center for the 1999 - 2000 academic year are listed below with their current affiliations and research topics:
ANDREW W. MELLON LECTURER IN THE FINE ARTS, 2000
Marc Fumaroli
Collège de France
The 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' and the Fine Arts (1640-1760)
PAUL MELLON SENIOR FELLOWS
Barbara Abou-El-Haj
Binghamton University, SUNY
Building and Decorating in Late Medieval Abbey and Cathedral Towns
Anthony Cutler, spring 2000
Pennsylvania State University
Objects of Desire: Gift Exchange between Byzantium and Islam
AILSA MELLON BRUCE SENIOR FELLOWS
Jonathan Reynolds
University of Southern California
Constructing "Tradition": Modern Japanese Architecture and the Formation
of a Viable Past
Georges Roque, fall 1999
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
The Genesis of Abstraction in Western Art
SAMUEL H. KRESS SENIOR FELLOW
Linda Neagley
Rice University
French Flamboyant Architecture and the End of Gothic
AILSA MELLON BRUCE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART SABBATICAL CURATORIAL FELLOW
Isabelle Dervaux
National Gallery of Art
Arshile Gorky: From Armenian Folklore to Surrealism
FRESE SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Stefan R. Hauser
Seminar für Vorderasiatische Alterumskunde der Freien Universität
Berlin
Status and Ritual: The Social Structure of Ashur in the Neo-Assyrian
Period
PAUL MELLON VISITING SENIOR FELLOWS, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000
Clifford Brown
Carleton University, Ottawa
The Art and Antiquities Collections of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga
Elena Khodza
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Greek Terracottas of the Hellenistic Epoch
Albert Kostenevich
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Problems of Typology, Iconography, and Subject Matter in European Painting
of the 1890s
John Wilton-Ely
University of Hull (emeritus)
Perceptions and Applications of Antiquity: Adam and Piranesi
AILSA MELLON BRUCE VISITING SENIOR FELLOWS, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000
Sergej Androssov
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Italian Painters and Russian Patrons in the Eighteenth Century
Louis Cellauro
Lyon
Vitruvius and British Architecture (1563-1825)
Alison Futrell
University of Arizona
Barbarian Queens: Paradoxes of Gender, Power, and Identity
Marco Venturi di Este
Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia
Architecture and Urban Design: The Modern Era Reconsidered
THE STARR FOUNDATION VISITING SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, Fall 1999-Winter
2000
Sihui Meng
The Palace Museum, Beijing
The Iconography of the Tejaprabha Assembly
SAMUEL H. KRESS/AILSA MELLON BRUCE PAIRED FELLOWS FOR RESEARCH IN CONSERVATION
AND ART HISTORY/ARCHAEOLOGY, 1999 - 2000
Susan Dackerman
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Thomas Primeau
The Baltimore Museum of Art
The History and Technology of Renaissance and Baroque Hand-Colored
Prints
Eva Mendgen
Hochschule der Bildende Künste Saar; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
Richard Ford
National Gallery of Art
German Expressionist Frames
PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWS, 1999 - 2000
Wendy Bellion (Wyeth Fellow, 1999 - 2001)*
[Northwestern University]
Likeness and Deception in Art of the Early American Republic
Rachael Z. DeLue (Wyeth Fellow, 1998-2000)
[Johns Hopkins University]
George Inness: Landscape, Representation, and the Struggle of Vision
David Doris (Ittleson Fellow, 1999 - 2001)*
[Yale University]
Vigilant Things: Ààlè, Efficacy, and Objecthood
in Southwestern Nigeria
Elizabeth Guenther (Chester Dale Fellow, 1999 - 2000)*
[Princeton University]
Albrecht Dürer's Narrative Style
Mimi Hellman (David E. Finley Fellow, 1997-2000)
[Princeton University]
The Hôtel de Soubise and the Rohan-Soubise Family: Architecture,
Interior Decoration, and the Art of Ambition in Eighteenth-Century France
Sarah Kennel (Mary Davis Fellow, 1999 - 2001)*
[University of California, Berkeley]
Bodies, Statues, Machines: Dance and the Visual Arts in Paris, 1910-1925
Carla Keyvanian (Paul Mellon Fellow, 1999 - 2002)*
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Charity, Architecture, and Urban Development: The Expansion of the
Santa Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti in Counter-Reformation
Rome
Andrew K. Y. Leung (Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 1998-2000)
[University of Pennsylvania]
Central-Pillar Cave Architecture in China and Central Asia during the
Northern Dynasties (265-581 A.D.)
Sarah Linford (Paul Mellon Fellowship, 1998-2001)*
[Princeton University]
The Disgrace of Representation: French Symbolism, 1870-1910
Melissa McCormick (Ittleson Fellowship, 1998-2000)
[Princeton University]
Tosa Mitsunobu's "Small Pictures": Forms and Functions of Small-Format
Handscrolls in the Muromachi Period (1333-1573)
Susan Merriam (Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 1999 - 2000)*
[Harvard University]
Icons after Iconoclasm: The Flemish Garland Image, 1608-1700
Stella Nair (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 1999 - 2001)*
[University of California, Berkeley]
Chinchero: Change and Continuity under Thupa Inca
Annie Pedret (Chester Dale Fellow, 1999 - 2000)*
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Team X: Modernizing Modern Architecture in Postwar Europe
Stephen Pinson (David E. Finley Fellow, 1999 - 2002)*
[Harvard University]
Enterprising Spectacle: The Art of L.J.M. Daguerre
Kathryn Rudy (Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 1999 - 2001)*
[Columbia University]
Kristel Smentek (David E. Finley Fellow, 1998-2001)*
[University of Delaware]
Pierre-Jean Mariette: Art, Commerce, and Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century
Europe
Kathryn A. Tuma (Mary Davis Fellow, 1998-2000)
[University of California, Berkeley]
Cézanne and the Philosophers: The Paintings of Paul Cézanne
and the Positivist Controversies in France during the Third Republic
Leila Whittemore (Paul Mellon Fellow, 1996 - 1998; 1999 - 2000)
[Columbia University]
Theory, Practice, and the Architectural Imagination: Filarete's Treatise
on Architecture and Early Sforza Urbanism, 1450 - 1466
* not in residence
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