Daniel Michael Zolli

DEPARTMENT OF • 240 BORLAND BUILDING THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY • UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 email: [email protected] • cell: 617.594.5747

http://www.sites.psu.edu/zolli

EDUCATION

Ph.D., October 2016 , History of Art & Architecture Department Dissertation: “Donatello’s Promiscuous Technique” Committee: Frank Fehrenbach, Joseph Koerner, Alina Payne

A.M., 2011 Harvard University, History of Art & Architecture Department Qualifying Paper: “Emblems and Enmity in Correggio’s Camera di San Paolo”

Research student in Art History, 2008 Ruprechts-Karls Universität, Heidelberg, Germany

B.A., 2o07 Wesleyan University (CT), Art History Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, high distinction and prize for best thesis in art history major (on annotated copies of Aldus Manutius’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili)

Coursework in Studio Art and Art History, 2002 Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy

APPOINTMENT HISTORY

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), 2017- The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Art History Affiliated Faculty: Center for Early Modern Studies; Arts & Design Research Incubator

Residential Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-17 Getty Research Institute

Visiting Lecturer, 2014-15 Tufts University, Department of Art & Art History,

Curatorial Assistant, 2008-9 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings & Prints

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Workshop practice; oral tradition and ethnohistory as art-historical methods; folklore, practical jokes, and the popular novella; trans-mediality; technical studies; media archaeology; conceptual and practical interfaces between art and law; Spanish colonialism; antiquarianism, forgery, and the misidentification of artists or subject matter, especially in southern Italy; physical decay in art; the plague and its impact on art; the nineteenth-century reception of .

PUBLICATIONS

Book in Progress

• Donatello’s Promiscuous Technique: Experimentation and Collaboration in an Italian Renaissance Workshop, manuscript in progress. Daniel M. Zolli

Exhibition Catalogue

• Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral, exh. cat., eds. Timothy Verdon and Daniel M. Zolli (London: Giles/Museum of Biblical Art, 2015).

★ Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award (Smaller Museums) from the College Art Association, for “an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art,” 2015

Reviewed by: Barrymore Laurence Scherer, The Wall Street Journal, 11 March 2015; Eliot W. Rowlands, The Art Newspaper, 1 April 2015; Andrew Butterfield, The New York Review of Books 62/7 (2015): 12−14; Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2015; Marco Grassi, The New Criterion vol. 33 (May 2015): 40; “7 Great Summer Art Reads,” Canadian Art (2015): 84−85; Martha Dunkelman, Italian Art Society Newsletter 27/2 (2015): 4−5; Allison Palmer, Choice, 51/12 (2015); David Wilkins, Renaissance Quarterly 69/2 (2016): 664−65.

Edited Volumes

• The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy, co-edited with Amy R. Bloch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 19 essays and introduction. 444 pages; 256 illustrations.

Contributors: Peter Bell; Amy Bloch; Lorenzo Buonanno; David Drogin; Yvonne Elet; Una d’Elia; Ashley Elston; Frank Fehrenbach; Robert Glass; Megan Holmes; Lauren Jacobi; Joost Keizer; Catherine Kupiec; Henrike Lange; Sarah McHam; Morgan Ng; Adrian Randolph; Michael Waters; Daniel Zolli.

• Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture, co-edited with Lauren Jacobi (Amsterdam University Press; distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 9 essays with an introduction and epilogue. Anticipated publication date = late spring 2020. ca. 300 pages; 90 images.

Contributors: Carolyn Dean; Grace Harpster; Sylvia Houghteling; Lauren Jacobi; Caroline Jones; David Karmon; Joseph Koerner; Dana Leibsohn; Carolina Mangone; Christopher Nygren; Lisa Pon; Amy Knight Powell; Allison Stielau; Daniel Zolli.

Journal Articles

• “Bell on Trial: The Struggle for Sound After Savonarola” (with Christopher Brown), Renaissance Quarterly 72/1 (Spring 2019): 54–96.

• “Agostino di Duccio’s Lapidary Imagination,” in preparation.

• “Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act,” in preparation.

• “Buffalmacco’s Disappearing Act,” in preparation.

Book Chapters (Refereed)

• “Through a Mirror, Darkly: Medardo Rosso and Donatello,” in The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return, eds. Alina Payne and Lina Bolzoni (Milan and Cambridge [MA]: Officina Libreria and Harvard University Press, 2018), pp. 289–312.

• “Making and Unmaking Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy: An Introduction” (with Amy Bloch), in The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (as above), pp. 1–38.

• “Virgil’s Forge: The Afterlife of a Sculptural Legend in Aragonese Naples,” in The Art of Sculpture (as above), pp. 388–415.

• “Introduction,” in Contamination & Purity (as above). 10,000 words with notes.

• “The Absent Center,” in Sculpture Workshops as Space and Concept: Creating the Portrait, eds. Jane Fejfer and Kristine Bøggild Johannsen (New York: Routledge, 2020?). 9,000 words with notes.

Exhibition Catalogue Essays & Entries

• “Donatello’s Visions: The Sculptor at Florence Cathedral,” in Sculpture in the Age of Donatello (as above), pp. 45−74.

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• Three object entries for Sculpture in the Age of Donatello (as above): “Donatello or Nanni di Banco, Vir Dolorum” (pp. 124-27); “Donatello, Bronze Head” and “Michelozzo, Bronze Head” (pp. 156−59).

• Three object entries for Prints & the Pursuit of Knowledge, ed. Susan Dackerman (New Haven: Press/Harvard Art Museums, 2011): “Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515” and “Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1620” (pp. 172−73); “Cornelis Anthonisz, View of Amsterdam, 1544” (pp. 348−49).

Exhibition Reviews

• Commissioned review of Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence (The Frick Collection) for Apollo Magazine (January 2020). 1,000 words.

HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS

Research Awards & Honors

• Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art (non-residential), 2019-20

• The Pennsylvania State University, Humanities Institute, Faculty Residency (declined), Spring 2020

• Getty Research Institute, Postdoctoral Fellowship, for the annual theme “Art and Anthropology," 2016-17

Grants & Research Funding

• The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Venetian Program Research Grant, summer 2019

• American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, spring 2019

• Penn State, King Faculty Enrichment Fund, to support research at the , London, 2019

• Penn State, College of Arts and Architecture, Arts & Design Research Incubator, Embedded Faculty Grant, co- author of application, on “Color and Toxicity” (research support and funds, affiliate faculty status), 2018-19

• Penn State, College of Arts and Architecture, Faculty Research Grant, 2017

• Penn State, King Faculty Enrichment Fund, to support the conference Bugs, Boulders, and Beakers: The Materiality of Artists’ Colors (see ‘Presentations’ below), co-author of application, 2017

• Penn State, George Dewey and Mary Krumrine Endowment, publication subventions, 2017, 2018, 2019

• MIT Council for the Arts, Grant to support the conference Purity & Contamination in Renaissance Art and Architecture (see ‘Presentations’ below), co-author of application, 2016-17

• MIT School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Grant to support Purity & Contamination (as above), co-author of application, 2016-17

• Samuel Kress Foundation, History of Art Grant for the exhibition Sculpture in the Age of Donatello (see ‘Curatorial Experience’ below), 2014

• J.M. Kaplan Fund, Furthermore Grant, for the exhibition catalogue Sculpture in the Age of Donatello, 2014

Doctoral/Dissertation

• Harvard University, Kingsbury Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2015-16

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship (declined), 2015-16

• Getty Research Institute, A.W. Mellon Grant, Institute in Medieval & Early Modern Italian Paleography, 2014

• Harvard, Graduate Merit Fellowship (for fieldwork in Italy), 2014

• Harvard Art Museums, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Fellowship, 2014

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• The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Venetian Program Research Grant (for research in Padua), 2013-14

• Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Graduate Visiting Fellowship, 2013

• Harvard, Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship (for fieldwork in Europe), 2012-13

• Harvard, Participant in Cast in Bronze, two-week workshop at an art foundry in Chelsea MA, 2012-13

• Harvard, Jens Aubrey Westengard Summer Research Grant (three-time recipient: 2011, 2012, 2013)

• Harvard, Derek C. Bok Certificate for Distinction in Teaching (three-time recipient: 2011, 2012, 2015)

Postgraduate

• Connecticut State Department of Education, Baden-Württemberg Exchange Fellowship, for study at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, 2008

Undergraduate (Wesleyan University)

• Wesleyan, Student Fellow, Center the Humanities Phi Beta Kappa Art History Prize, for best thesis in the major Research grants for travel to India and Italy, 2003−7

CURATORIAL WORK

• Guest Curator [with Timothy Verdon], Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral. Museum of Biblical Art (New York, NY), February−June 2015.

★ Exhibition Merit Award, Society for Experiential Graphic Design (2015); National Design Award, Society of American Registered Architects (2015); Named one of “20 Memorable Museum Shows” of 2015, Artnet news; Top 10 Exhibitions of 2015 (in US and UK), The Art Newspaper; Top 20 “NYC Art Shows” of 2015, Hyperallergic; Top 10 US Exhibitions of 2015, Wall Street Journal.

Selected reviews: Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 12 February 2015; Sarah Cascone, Artnet news, 23 February 2015; Stephanie Strasnick, Architectural Digest, 26 February 2015; Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 2 March 2015; Barrymore Laurence Scherer, The Wall Street Journal, 11 March 2015; Allison Meier, Hyperallergic, 18 March 2015 (online only); Andrew Butterfield, The New York Review of Books 62/7 (2015): 12−14; Leo J. O’Donovan, America Magazine, no. 14 (2015): 43−44; Marco Grassi, The New Criterion vol. 33 (May 2015): 40; Martina D’Amato, “Cathedral Feelings,” Art and Antiques 38/5 (May 2015): 64; Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2015; Jerry Weiss, Linea, 18 May 2015; Stuart Isaacof, The Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2015; Amelia Saul, The Brooklyn Rail, 8 September 2015; Staff, “The 25 Most Buzzed-About Art Exhibitions of 2015,” Artnet news, 26 December 2016.

• Co-curator [with Susan Dackerman, Katharine Park, et alia], Paper Worlds: Printing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (Cambridge, MA), May−August 2010.

• Co-curator [with Jesse Feiman], A Passion for Prints: The Davison Legacy. Wesleyan (CT), March−May 2005.

PRESENTATIONS

Conferences & Symposia Organized

• Bugs, Boulders, Beakers: The Materiality of Artists’ Colors, co-organized with Sarah Rich (PSU), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, October 2018.

Conference website and program:

Article and interview:

• Purity and Contamination in Renaissance Art & Architecture, co-organized with Lauren Jacobi (MIT). Annual theme for the New England Renaissance Conference, in collaboration with the History, Theory and Criticism (HTC) program, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2016.

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Link to conference website and program:

• Material/Immaterial: A Symposium on 15th-century Sculpture, co-organized with Amy Bloch (SUNY Albany) and Timothy Verdon (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence), Museum of Biblical Art, NY, NY, February 2017.

Available on YouTube:

• Vasari/500. An international symposium for the fifth centenary of Giorgio Vasari’s birth, co-organized with Francesca Borgo, Caitlin Henningsen, and Shawon Kinew. A. Sackler Building, Cambridge, MA, October 2011.

Link to program:

Conference Panels Organized

• “Red: The Blood of Quattrocento Sculpture,” co-organized with Una d’Elia (Queen’s University, Canada), Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2019.

• “Disobedient Objects,” American Association for Italian Studies annual conference, Sant’Anna Institute, Sorrento (Italy), June 2018.

• “Artists and their Techniques in the Tuscan novella,” co-organized with Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago), RSA annual conference, Chicago, March 2017.

• “Impurities: The Status of Surface in Renaissance Sculpture,” co-organized with Frank Fehrenbach (University of Hamburg), RSA annual conference, Boston, March 2016.

• “Bells in the Italian Renaissance,” co-organized with Michael Cole (Columbia University), RSA annual conference, New York, March 2014.

Invited Lectures, Talks, & Programs

• TBD, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College (PA), April 2020.

• “Early/Modern Color: Masquerades and Make Overs,” with Sarah Rich, for the working group on “Materiality and Colors in European Art,” Program in European Cultural Studies, Princeton University (NJ), May 2019.

• “Agostino di Duccio’s Lapidary Imagination,” The Power of Arts, The Power of Fame: The Extraordinary Renaissance Court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, UCLA/Getty Museum, January 2018.

• “The Absent Center,” Creating the portrait: The meaning of the workshop as space and concept, Thorvaldsens Museum and University of Copenhagen (Denmark), December 2017.

• “Donatello’s Idol Play,” in 5 venues = Dept. of Art History, Penn State, April 2017; Getty Research Institute, April 2017; Art Department, Reed College, Portland (OR); Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University, New Orleans (LA); Art History Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (VA), March 2017.

• “Donatello’s Promiscuous Technique,” History of Art & Architecture Dept., Harvard University, April 2016.

• “Antiquity Sui Generis: or What Did Donatello Learn in Rome?” Museum of Biblical Art, New York, June 2015.

• “Drawing in Stone: Donatello and Marble Relief Sculpture,” Museum of Biblical Art, New York, March 2015.

• “Taking Positions: Marble Sculpture and the Viewer,” in-gallery talk jointly led with Peter Jonathan Bell (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Museum of Biblical Art, New York, March 2015.

• Series of five public gallery talks related to the exhibition Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge, Arthur Sackler Museum, Harvard University, November 2011.

• “The Hand at Work in Renaissance Art,” Arthur Sackler Museum, Harvard, December 2010.

• Regular public gallery talks, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009.

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Selected Conference & Workshop Presentations

• “Donatello’s Classicism*,” Committee for Early Modern Studies, Work-In-Progress Series (annual theme = Self- Fashioning), Penn State, November 2019.

• “Making Up Materials: Donatello’s Cosmetic Acts,” RSA annual conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2019.

• “Making Up Materials: Donatello and Cosmetics,” Bugs, Boulders, Beakers: The Materiality of Artists’ Colors (as above), October 2018.

• “Object on Trial: Legal Authority, Exile, and the Bell of San Marco,” Association of Art Historians (AAH) annual conference (London), April 2018.

• “Material Adulteration in Donatello’s Workshops,” Forschungstelle Naturbilder, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, University of Hamburg (Germany), November 2014.

• “Agency & Exile in San Marco’s Piagnona,” RSA conference (New York), with Christopher Brown, March 2014.

• “Hell’s Bell: The Piagnona of San Marco,” Symposium on the History of Art, The Frick Collection/Institute of Fine Arts (New York), March 2014 (selected by History of Art faculty to represent Harvard University).

• “Through a Mirror, Darkly: Medardo Rosso and Donatello,” Revision, Revival and Return: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century, Villa I Tatti (Florence) and Istituto Scuola Normale (Pisa), June 2013.

• “Donatello in Siena,” Villa I Tatti’s Scholar Day (Siena), April 2013.

• “Michelangelo’s Monstrosity,” Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Montreal, Canada, April 2011.

• “Andrea Riccio and Humanist Politics of Exclusion,” The Many Lives of Objects, UC Berkeley, March 2010.

• “Humanists as Readers of Aldus’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,” symposium in Honor of John T. Paoletti, Wesleyan University, May 2009.

• “Raphael, Castiglione’s Courtier, and the Myth of Urbino,” Federico da Montefeltro & His Library, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, June 2007.

TEACHING

The Pennsylvania State University (2017−)

• Lecture Courses (100- , 200- and 300-level; enrollment capacity = 240, 100, and 30 students)

ART H 112 Renaissance to Modern Art (at both Honors and GenEd levels), F17, Sp18 ART H 342 Color: Art Historical, Philosophical & Technical Approaches to Hue, w/ Sarah Rich, F18

• Advanced Undergrad & Grad Seminars (400-level; enrollment cap = 25 students)

ART H 427 Liquid Empire: The Art and Architecture of Renaissance Venice, F17 ART H 497 The Sculpture of Renaissance and Baroque Europe, Sp18 ART H 423 Michelangelo: Art, Biography, Myth, F18

• Guest/Service Teaching

ART H 299 Study Abroad Program in Todi (Italy), on-site lecturer for Florence excursion, Su19 ART H 515 “Bronze, Liquidity, Flow,” guest lecture in Investigating the Materials of Art: Plastic, Sp18

Tufts University (2014−15)

• Lecture Courses:

FAH 134 Renaissance Venice, F14 FAH 131 The Challenge of Sculpture in Renaissance Italy, Sp15 FAH 001 Introduction to World Art [regular guest lecturer], F14

Harvard University (2012−15)

• Undergraduate Tutorials (Instructor of Record)

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HAA 300 Methods of Art History, Sp 13 HAA310 Early Modern Materiality, Sp15 GSAS Art, Magic, Technology: The Work of Bronze in the Renaissance, winter 14

• Head Teaching Fellow

HAA10 The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance [survey course], F12 HSS124 Italian Renaissance Art [survey taught w/ Harvard Summer School @ Ca’ Foscari, Venice], Su12

ADVISING

The Pennsylvania State University (2017−)

• Dissertation Committee Member

Kenta Tokushige, military fortifications in sixteenth-century Tuscany (in progress) Emily Hagen, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century guidebooks of Rome (in progress) Elizabeth Pedersen, “Architecture and Audience in Donatello’s Early Florentine Reliefs” (2019)

• PhD Candidacy Exam (1) and Comprehensive Exams Committee Member (2)

Emily Hagen (1, 2); Kenta Tokushige (2)

• Master’s Thesis Committee Member

[chair] Charlie Beatty, TBD (in progress) [chair] Jennifer Glissman, on the Benintendi and wax votive-making practices in ‘400 Florence (in progress) Nathan Burch, “Render Unto Caesar: Numismatic Imagery in the Lombard Architectural Renaissance (2019) Emily Hagen, “Urbanism, Spectacle, and Public Execution in Early Modern Rome” (2018)

• M.A. Major/Minor Exams

Jennifer Glissman (2019); Nathan Burch (2018); Emily Hagen (2017)

• Undergraduate Advisees

Maia Carpentieri (2020); Karina Glendon (2020)

UNIVERSITY & DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

The Pennsylvania State University (2017-)

• Department of Art History

Early Modern Visiting Assistant Professor, Search Committee, 2019 Graduate Committee, 2017-19 Lecture and Programs Committee, 2018-19 PhD and MA Admissions, Art History Department, 2018- Co-Organizer, Annual Graduate Grant-Writing Workshop, 2017-19 Dickson Memorial Lecture Series Nominating Committee, 2017- Scholarship and Research Integrity (SARI) Session Leader, 2017

• College of Arts and Architecture

College Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity, 2017-19 Academic Integrity Committee, 2017-19 Co-Organizer, occasional workshops where participants learn historic art-making techniques, 2018-19

MEDIA

• Interview about pigment- and dye-making course and related symposium, Penn State News, 27 September 2018:

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• Interview about Donatello exhibition, on Community L’Altra Italia (program for RAI Italian National Television, broadcast weekly to the international Italian community), 30 March 2015:

• Published interview with Cindi di Marzo about Donatello exhibition, Studio International, 26 March 2015:

• Speaker in the video “Discover Donatello,” produced by Art Net News, 17 March 2015:

• Live radio interview for segment entitled “Donatello Lands in New York,” The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC (NPR affiliate), 16 March 2015:

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Harvard University, Research assistant to Joseph Koerner, 2010−12

Matthew Marks Gallery, Associate, 2007

Wesleyan University, Research assistant to John Paoletti, 2005−7

Curatorial internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT), Davison Art Center (Wesleyan), 2003−7

RESEARCH LANGUAGES

Italian (speaking/reading/writing) German, French, Spanish, Latin (reading)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND AFFILIATIONS

American Association of Italian Studies Association for Art History College Art Association International Council of Museums Italian Art Society Renaissance Society of America

[last revised September 20, 2019]

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