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Daniel Michael Zolli Daniel Michael Zolli DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY • 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 Harvard University, 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 Renaissance art. 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. CV| 2 Daniel M. Zolli • 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: Yale University 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 Warburg Institute, 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 CV| 3 Daniel M. Zolli • 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
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