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Dear Friends and Colleagues: SPRING  At the close of the spring 2001 University, is teaching an undergraduate survey Inside semester, we find ourselves in the on Italian Renaissance painting; Laura Auricchio, a 2000 Ph.D. from Columbia, is teaching  final design phase for the Marquand Neoclassicism through Impressionism; Robert FACULTY NEWS Library expansion and for related Harrist, associate professor at Columbia (and a 1989 Princeton Ph.D.), is teaching a graduate  renovations to McCormick Hall. seminar on Chinese painting; and yet another The renovated building promises of our former students, Margaret Vendryes, a JOHN RUPERT MARTIN to be wonderful; we will have more 1997 Ph.D., is teaching a course on African  art. Last semester Margaret taught a course on space, more efficiently used. Black photographers for the Program in African- VISITING FACULTY We are grateful to the University for putting American Studies.  the project on a fast track and for moving The department has sponsored or co- GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS forward with it even though all the necessary sponsored several conferences this year, includ- funding has not yet been raised. The patience ing one organized by our graduate students  (the subject was “2”); one organized by the of everyone in the building will be tested over EXCAVATIONS the next two years: Marquand’s books will be Index of Christian Art on “Objects, Images, and split between the E-Quad and Mudd Library, the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy”; and one entitled “Hypothesis 4,” organized by  and the front of McCormick Hall will be envel- NOLLI DATABASE oped by a construction site. We are grateful to graduate students of the School of Architecture. the University for putting the project on a fast In the next academic year we anticipate no fewer than four conferences planned by faculty  track and for moving forward with it even though all the necessary funding has not yet of the department (Carol Armstrong, Anne- MARQUAND LIBRARY NEWS been raised. Marie Bouché, Hal Foster, and Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann). We are also looking forward to the  We have been fortunate this year in having an unusually large number of visiting faculty. biennial Haley Lecture, which will be given by SLIDES AND PHOTOGRAPHS In the fall term Richard Stanley- Pierre Rosenberg. Please stay in touch with us  Baker, professor at Hong Kong University (and a 1979 Ph.D. by e-mail ([email protected]) or INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART graduate of our department), snailmail (Newsletter, Department of Art and Archaeology,  taught two courses on Japanese McCormick Hall, Princeton art; and since John Pinto was on PUBLICATIONS sabbatical, Ingrid Steffensen (1994 University, Princeton, NJ 08544- 1018). We are grateful for your  University of Delaware Ph.D.) continued interest and we welcome taught his introduction to the ALUMNI NEWS history of architecture, a course we like your news and suggestions. to offer every year. In the current term Heather Lovett Robert W. Bagley ‒ Elizabeth Pilliod, an associate Acting Chair (spring 2001) ART MUSEUM NEWS professor at Oregon State Faculty News

l Acres’s article on “Rogier van der Weyden’s Security and Survival,” Minimo kai perivalon 6 Painted Texts” appeared in Artibus et (2001); “Proskynetaria Icons, Saints’ Tombs, and A Historiae (2000). In September he gave the Development of the Iconostasis,” in The a paper on “Small Physical History: The Trickling Iconostasis: Origins, Evolution, Symbolism, ed. Past of Early Netherlandish Painting” at the A. Lidov (Moscow, 2000); “The Exonarthex of International Congress of the History of Art in Hilandar: The Question of Its Function and London. He lectured on German paintings at Patronage,” in Huit siècles du monastère de the Allentown Art Museum in January, and in Hilandar, ed. V. Korac (Belgrade, 2000); and March chaired a CAA session in Chicago on “Destruction of Serbian Cultural Patrimony in “Inferring Time,” which pondered pointedly Kosovo: A World-Wide Precedent?” Bulletin of experiential dimensions of time in art ranging British Byzantine Studies 26 (2000). He also from late medieval sculpture through contempo- lectured at the University of Missouri, the Uni- rary painting. His primary research continues to versity of Minnesota, the University of Georgia, be toward a book on the imagery of Christ’s and Cornell University, where he presented a Passion in his infancy in the fifteenth and early paper on Balkan belfries at the conference Con-/ sixteenth centuries. Among his new course De-/Re-/Construction of South Slavic Architecture. offerings this year was “Art of the Print,” which Yoshiaki Shimizu spent his sabbatical leave in draws on the collections of The Art Museum the fall of 2000 in the visiting scholar’s program and Firestone Library both for preceptorial at the Seattle Art Museum. During his tenure at meetings and for a two-part exhibition in The the Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park, he Art Museum surveying European and American examined the museum’s Japanese painting collec- printmaking techniques from the Renaissance to tion and gave a series of public lectures. The first the present. lecture, “Japan in American Art Museums: Which Robert W. Bagley is the acting chair of the Japan?,” examined how American museums have department for the spring 2001 term. His recent presented Japanese art in the last fifty years, and publications include the chapter “Shang Archae- the significance of this history of public represen- ology” in The Cambridge History of Ancient tation of Japan and Japanese art. This lecture will China (Cambridge, 1999) and “Percussion” in be published as an essay in the March 2001 issue Music in the Age of Confucius, ed. J. F. So (Wash- of The Art Bulletin. The second lecture, entitled ington, D.C., 2000). He also continued work on “Three Cases of Copying in Japanese Art: Callig- a book on the bells from the Zeng Hou Yi tomb, raphy, Painting, and Architecture,” took up the and he has edited the catalogue of an exhibition ubiquitous theme of copy and copying in Japa- of archaeological finds from the People’s Republic nese art as a cultural phenomenon essential to of China which is now at the Seattle Art Museum perpetuating the “life and afterlife” of works of and will move to the Kimbell Art Museum in art. The final lecture was “Looking and Reading Fort Worth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Together: Painting and Text in the Early Twelfth- and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Century Genji Monogatari Scroll”; it explored the theme of calligraphy as a major form of art in the Slobodan Curcic´ ˇ , with co-author Svetlana ´ earliest extant Tale of Genji scroll, examining how Popovic, has just published Naupara Monastery ´ the text transcribed by artfully rendered calligra- (Belgrade, 2001), the first volume of the series phy functions as an effective conveyer of emotion Corpus of Late Medieval Architecture of Serbia, encoded in the painting. Shimizu also gave a 1355–1459. Two of his monographs also appeared weekly reading class to University of Washington this academic year: Some Observations and Ques- graduate students in Japanese art, in which they tions Regarding Early Christian Architecture in studied the late sixteenth-century Tohaku Gasetsu Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, 2000), and Middle (Chats on Painting by Tohaku), a collection of Byzantine Architecture on Cyprus: Provincial or notes and commentaries on Chinese and Japanese Regional? (Nicosia, 2000), the Thirteenth Annual paintings exchanged by the painter Hasegawa Lecture on the History and Archaeology of Tohaku and his friend, the priest Nittsu. He also Cyprus sponsored by the Bank of Cyprus Cul- made two brief research trips to Japan, where he tural Foundation. Among his recent articles are examined Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ink “Late Medieval Fortified Palaces in the Balkans:

 SPRING  paintings that are part of his ongoing research ologist Pirro Ligorio is under consideration by on Korean painting and Japanese art. Pennsylvania University State Press. In March he lectured at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, John Wilmerding’s latest book, Compass and D.C., on “Portraits of English Gardeners.” In Clock: Defining Moments in American Culture, February he was a member of a small committee was awarded the designation “Honor Book of teachers of garden history and landscape 2000” by the New Jersey Council of the Humani- architecture to advise the Bard College of the ties. He is currently half way through the writing Decorative Arts on the establishment of a gradu- of a new project: Signs of the Artist: Signatures ate program in the history of gardening and and Self-Expression in American Painting. Related landscape architecture leading to the master’s to that work in progress, he has revised and and doctoral degrees. refocused his American Studies seminar for next year, to be called “American Art and Autobiogra- James Marrow returned to Princeton in Septem- phy.” His other ongoing research projects include ber after two years of residence in Cambridge, entries on American works in the collections of England—the first as a visiting fellow at Corpus the Williams College Museum of Art and the Christi College and the second as acting keeper Harvard University Art Museums. He is also of manuscripts and rare books at the Fitzwilliam collaborating with an advanced graduate student, Museum. He contributed an introductory essay Mark Mitchell, in the organization and curating and a number of entries to the catalogue of an of an exhibition for Berry-Hill Galleries, New exhibition that opened recently at the Philadel- York, devoted to nineteenth-century American phia Museum of Art: Leaves of Gold: Manuscript marine painter Francis A. Silva. The exhibition Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. His will open in the summer of 2002. article “The Pembroke Psalter-Hours” will ap- After ten years of service, he stepped down pear in a memorial volume for Maurits Smeyers from the board of the Wendell Gilley Museum (Louvain), and he is currently writing a commen- in Maine and was named emeritus trustee. But tary to accompany a color facsimile of a richly he remained active this year on the boards or illustrated Latin Prayer Book from Cologne (ca. advisory committees of the Guggenheim Founda- 1485) in the collection of the Russian National tion and Museum (New York), the Northweast Library in St. Petersburg. In April, he delivered Harbor Library (Maine), the College of the the annual “Julius Held Birthday Lectures” at Atlantic (Maine), the Wyeth Endowment for Williams College.

American Art, and the Harvard University Art John Blazejewski Museums. He was particularly involved in the work of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, which during the Clinton administration completed extensive renovations of all of the major ground-floor rooms of the mansion, most notably the Blue Room, and oversaw numerous important acquisitions for the collection, including significant paintings by Henry O. Tanner and Georgia O’Keefe. He continued to be active in lecturing around the country, speaking at Sotheby’s, the Princeton Club of New York, the Kalamazoo Museum of Art, Western Michigan University, the Chapin School in Princeton, the Gilley Museum in Maine, and the Seminarians in Boston. In May he gave the Rubin lecture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Emeriti Faculty David Coffin published two articles on English gardening, “Venus in the Garden of Wilton Department faculty: (front row) Esther DaCosta Meyer, Carol Armstrong, John House,” in Source, and “Venus in the Eighteenth- Wilmerding, Yoskiaki Shimizu, T. Leslie Shear, Hugo Meyer, Al Acres; (back row) Century English Garden,” in Garden History. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Slobodan Curcic,´ ˇ ´ Thomas Leisten, Anne-Marie Bouché, His book-length study of the life and activity of Hal Foster, Robert Bagley (on leave/not pictured: Patricia Brown, Peter Bunnell, John the sixteenth-century Italian artist and archae- Pinto, William Childs)

SPRING   John Rupert Martin

John Rupert Martin, Frederick Marquand by the dean of Rubens scholars, Julius S. Held,

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J. in Princeton on  July  at the age of  paintings: The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Church in Antwerp, which was published in His wife Barbara outlived him by eight months—  as the first volume of the massive Corpus she died on  March . They are survived by Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, still in progress. their daughter, Hilary, and two grandchildren. The next year, , Martin’s Rubens: The Antwerp Martin was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and Altarpieces was published in Norton’s series of received his bachelor’s degree in  from critical anthologies. MacMaster University in Hamilton. He earned In  Martin published two more books his master of fine arts degree from Princeton in on the Flemish master: Rubens before , a 1941 and taught art history for a year at the collection of articles presented at the symposium State University of Iowa before enlisting in the and exhibition he organized and edited at Canadian army, where he served in the Third Princeton, and his second monograph for the Canadian Division and attained the rank of major. Corpus Rubenianum, The Decorations for the After the war, Martin returned to Princeton as a Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, for which he re- Woodrow Wilson Fellow and was awarded his ceived the Charles Rufus Morey Award of the Ph.D. in , the year he joined the Princeton College Art Association, honoring “the most faculty as an assistant professor in the Depart- distinguished work of scholarship in the history ment of Art and Archaeology, where he taught of art published by an American or Canadian for the next forty years. In  he was named a during .” By this time he was also serving as bicentennial preceptor; in  he was promoted editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin (‒) and to associate professor, and then to full professor had been elected chairman of the Department of in . Art and Archaeology (‒). The conclusion Martin began his career in art history as a of his chairmanship was aptly marked by another medievalist, specializing in Byzantine art. His major exhibition he mounted in The Art Mu- first monograph, based on his doctoral disserta- seum: Van Dyck as Religious Artist, with a cata- tion, was The Illustration of the Heavenly Ladder logue he co-authored with his graduate assistant of John Climacus, a study of medieval manuscript Gail Feigenbaum. illumination that was published in . But Martin’s eminence as a scholar was well only a year later he made the first of his many established among his fellow members of the enduring contributions to the study of seven- Comité Internationale d’Histoire de l’Art, the teenth-century art with a published lecture American Philosophical Society, the Renaissance entitled “The Baroque from the Point of View of Society, and the College Art Association, of the Art Historian.” Two decades later, that semi- which he served as president from  to . nal article served (in the persuasive words of the But his preeminence, above all, was as a lecturer commissioning publisher) as an “oil sketch” for and teacher of undergraduate as well as graduate his definitive study of that period and style, students. By the time of his retirement in , Baroque, which was published in  and which his famous course on Baroque and Rococo art remains the standard text in the field. regularly had enrollments of over three hundred John Martin’s first monograph on seven- students each term—a degree of popularity teenth-century painting, The Portrait of John Milton unprecedented and unmatched in that field. The at Princeton and Its Place in Milton Iconography undergraduates gave that course the highest rating () was followed four years later by a more of all the courses offered by Princeton University. monumental book on the dawn of the Baroque The personal affection his students had for him in Rome, the Farnese Palace frescoes of the was reflected in his election as an honorary Carracci: The Farnese Gallery, published by the member of the Ivy Club, the oldest and most Princeton University Press. Among the admirers distinguished of the undergraduate eating clubs. and artistic beneficiaries of those ceiling frescoes Martin’s lectures were nothing short of was Peter Paul Rubens; so in hindsight it seems magical. But as the British playwright Sir especially apropos—and perhaps even providen- Terence Rattigan observed, “What makes magic tial—that Martin’s next book, suggested to him is genius, and what makes genius is an infinite

 SPRING  capacity for taking pains.” Anyone who had the always had time, no matter how busy he was. He Foster Named to privilege of assisting Professor Martin as a pre- had a unique gift for mentoring, for encourag- Endowed Position ceptor in his course saw that his special magic ing, and for caring. For those who attended his was matched by the infinite pains he took in memorial service in Princeton on September At their November meeting, the  preparing every lecture—from choosing and th, there was ample testimony to the legacy he Board of Trustees named Hal hand-cleaning each slide, to timing his presenta- left with his former students. In the words of Foster the Townsend Martin, tion down to the last seconds (the last slide dim- Henry Adams, “A teacher affects eternity; he can Class of 1917, Professor of Art ming as the bell rang out), to the preparation of never tell where his influence stops.” and Archaeology, effective Sep-   his preceptors for the weekly small classes with Charles Scribner III ’ * tember 1, 2000. Foster joined the the students. For the students themselves he Department of Art and Archaeol- ogy in 1997. He previously taught at Cornell University and served as the director of critical Visiting Faculty and curatorial studies for an independent study program at the Whitney Museum. Laura Auricchio joined us for the spring semes- Elizabeth Pilliod, associate professor in the Foster is the author of three ter as lecturer, teaching the nineteenth-century Department of Art History at Oregon State books in the field of modern art survey course Neoclassicism through Impression- University, taught Art , Italian Renaissance and is the editor of three others. ism, advising students, and lecturing in Art 101. Painting and Sculpture, during the spring semester. He has also written numerous She received her B.A. summa cum laude from As part of her course she selected a representative articles for both scholarly and Harvard, and her Ph.D. with distinction from group of Italian drawings from the permanent mainstream publications, and Columbia University in 2000. The forthcoming collection of The Art Museum, which was exhib- has served as editor or on the book based on her dissertation is tentatively ited in the main galleries and used throughout editorial boards of several art entitled From Scandal to Silence: The Rise and the term as the basis for papers and preceptorials. journals, including October. In Fall of the French Woman Artist, ‒. She Elizabeth is an expert on sixteenth-century 1998 he received a Guggenheim has published on topics in eighteenth-, nine- Florentine art, and her book Pontormo, Bronzino, Fellowship. teenth-, and twentieth-century art and culture. and Allori: A Genealogy of Florentine Art will be Her next forthcoming piece, on a contemporary published by Yale University Press. She is current- artist, is scheduled to appear in the fall issue of ly working on a second book, Melancholy and Art Journal under the title “Works in Translation: Creativity (University of Chicago Press), that Ghada Amer’s Hybrid Pleasures.” Active in connects a Renaissance artist’s diary with his work gender studies, Laura has organized the Barnard and self-image. She will also be a co-author, with Feminist Art and Art History Conference, and is Per Bjurström and Catherine Loisel, of Drawings currently a member of the College Art Associa- in Swedish Public Collections: Italian Drawings, tion’s Committee on Women in the Arts. A reci- with responsibility for the Florentine drawings. pient of Fulbright, Whiting, and other awards, Richard Stanley-Baker * returned to Princeton she is currently a Whitney Teaching Fellow at in the fall of  to teach seminars on medieval the Whitney Museum of American Art. Japanese gardens and Sesshu Toyo (‒). Robert Harrist Jr. * was welcomed back to A graduate of New College, Oxford, he did his the department this spring to teach a seminar in graduate studies at Princeton with Shujiro Shimada, Chinese painting, with special emphasis on writing a dissertation on mid-Muromachi paintings copying, imitation, and allusion. A graduate alum of the Eight Views of Xiaoxiang. His publications of the department, he studied with Wen Fong reflect his continued interest in ink painting and and wrote a dissertation on the Shan-Chuang T’u art of the Muromachi period. He has also pub- by Li Kung-Lin. He is now associate professor in lished on Bunsei, Sesshu Toyo, Sesso Toyo, medi- the Department of Art History and Archaeology eval Japanese gardens, the lake landscape tradition, at Columbia University. His research interests and Zen temples and their gardens, among other include Chinese painting, calligraphy, and gar- topics. Richard has just completed a manuscript dens, and he has lectured and published on the of a book titled Eight Views of Xiaoxang: Response phenomenon of copies and replicas in Chinese and Replay in Muromachi Ink Painting, and is art. He is currently at work on two projects: a contributing to and co-editing Readings in the general history of Chinese calligraphy and a Tale of the Genji. His works in progress include a book titled Reading Chinese Mountains that will book-length study of gardens in medieval Japan. examine the role of language in shaping percep- He teaches in the Department of Fine Arts of tions of landscape. He recently published Power Hong Kong University, where he is associate and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art. professor and chair. continued on next page

SPRING   Grad Students Ingrid Steffenson taught Art , Introduction Margaret Rose Vendryes * returned to cam- Organize to the History of Architecture, in the fall semes- pus as visiting lecturer in the department and in Conference ter. The author of Marble Palaces, Temples of Art: the Program in African American Studies. A Art Museums, Architecture, and American Culture, graduate of Amherst College, with an M.A. from ‒ (Bucknell University Press, ), Tulane University, she studied with John Graduate students in the which was based on her  University of Dela- Wilmerding at Princeton and wrote a disserta- Departments of Art and Archae- ware dissertation, she currently teaches at tion on the Black-American figurative sculptor ology and English organized a Brookdale Community College in Monmouth Richmond Barthé. She has also been a visiting two-day conference, “Surviving County. Ingrid has also published articles on member of the Black studies and fine arts faculty the Photograph,” focusing on Cass Gilbert, on the issues facing women archi- at Amherst College, where she designed the the enormous variety of critical tects during the nineteenth century, and on the survey of African art and a seminar in Black- work being done under the Milwaukee Public Library competition and its American photography. She taught both courses rubric of photography studies. relation to the World’s Columbian Exposition. at Princeton this year. Margaret has particular Faculty and graduate students She recently presented a paper at the University of interests in the African Diaspora, photography, from a number of departments Virginia on the influence of George Washington’s and contemporary visual culture, and her publi- at Princeton—including English, Mount Vernon on the modern suburban ver- cations have dealt with those fields as well as Art and Archaeology, German, nacular, and she plans further research on that with topics as diverse as art deco and Thomas Architecture, History, and topic. She is also currently investigating the Eakins. She’s currently completing her book on Romance Languages—and a iconography of American architecture through Barthé, which includes new research on the black number of distinguished critics references to and recreations of influential his- body in twentieth-century American art and litera- and photographers discussed a toric buildings. Her other ongoing research topic ture. A painter in oil on canvas as well as a sculptor series of topics loosely grouped is the writer, architectural critic, and suffragette of found objects, she creates works involving under the category of survival: Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer. She will chair portraiture, feminist identities, and mixed-media the survival of the subject, of a session at CAA in Philadelphia next year on assemblage. She has accepted a position as assis- the image, of cultures, and of the American mural painting tradition. tant professor and coordinator of the art history photography itself. The keynote program at York College, City University of New speakers were Molly Nesbit of York, beginning in September . Vassar College and Allan Sekula of the California Institute of the Arts. The department’s Carol Armstrong and Hal Foster and Graduate Student News Cotsen Fellow Branden Joseph presented papers, Esther da Costa Meyer chaired one of the ikolas Bakirtzis’s field of study is Dora C. Y. Ching was awarded a Jane and sessions, and Margaret Rose Byzantine and medieval art and archae- Morgan Whitney Art History Fellowship at The Vendryes *97 took part in the ology, particularly late Byzantine archi- Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the fall she round-table discussion that N tecture and archaeology in the Balkans. Last assisted Professor Wen Fong with his forthcoming concluded the conference. summer he did research in Greece, Turkey, and book Between Two Cultures: Nineteenth- and Graduate students Andrew the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Robert H. Hershberger *01 and Marta exploring the academic and practical aspects of Ellsworth Collection at The Metropolitan Museum Weiss organized an exhibition his dissertation topic, “The Monastery of Timios of Art. She also contributed to The Art Museum’s of photographs at The Art Prodromos near Serres, Greece: The Architecture 1999 catalogue The Embodied Image: Chinese Museum to accompany the of the Monastery and Its Environs.” He is currently Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection, by conference. Ranging from in Greece doing field research in the monastery. Robert E. Harrist Jr. *89 and Wen C. Fong, with anonymous daguerreotypes to Nikolas is participating in the preparation of an contributions by Qianshen Bai, Dora C. Y. Ching, large-scale contemporary exhibition on Byzantine fortifications in north- Chuan-hsing Ho, Cary Y. Liu *97, Amy McNair, works, the images addressed ern Greece, organized by the Greek Ministry of Zhixin Sun *96, and Jay Xu *93. With Cary Y. issues of human survival and Culture, and will contribute to the catalogue. Liu and Judith G. Smith, she was the co-editor the survival of photography He has also submitted an article on the architec- of Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy, a itself in an era of increasing ture of the Archontariki, the reception hall of symposium volume which was awarded second visual saturation. the monastery of Timios Prodromos, to a publi- prize for books in the American Association of cation of the Leventis Foundation on the preser- Museums museum publications design competi- vation of the eighteenth-century wall paintings tion. Dora was also was the co-editor, with Cary of this reception space. He gave a presentation Liu, of Arts of the Sung and Yuan: Ritual, Ethnicity, on “The Concept of House and Household in and Style in Painting, a volume of papers from a Archaeology” as a part of a course offered by the symposium held in Princeton in 1996. Currently Department of Architecture at the University of she is working on her dissertation, “The Changing Thessaly, Greece. 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 SPRING  of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).” by a Spears grant, to view the Minor White retro- In Memoriam [[email protected]] spective. He is collaborating with Prof. Thomas Leisten and curator of research photographs Elena Filipovic is completing her dissertation Sandy Kalajian Shari Kenfield on an exhibition of photographs “The Museum Laid Bare/Marcel Duchamp,” a The Department of Art and from the collection of Ananda Coomaraswamy. study of the connections between Marcel Archaeology received the sad Andrew has accepted a tenure-track assistant Duchamp’s exhibition installations for the Surre- news that Sandra Kalajian professorship in contemporary art at Bowling passed away on July 24, 2000. alist movement and the artist’s larger oeuvre as Green State University in Ohio. seen through his sustained interest in question- Sandy was art cataloger and ing the role of the museum and the institutions Margaret Laird returned to Princeton after a then senior art cataloger in of art. Her study is based on more than two two-year Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Slides and Photographs from years of research in Paris supported by a French Academy in Rome. While in Italy, she researched 1970 to 1998. That she had Chateaubriand grant and a Dedalus Fellowship the monuments of the seviri Augustales, mid-level become an institution is a fact for Modern Art. Elena drew on this research for magistrates in the towns of the Roman empire, she would have modestly dis- a recent exhibition at the Zabriskie Gallery in the topic of her dissertation. She presented a dained, but it was true all the New York, Marcel Duchamp on Display, which portion of her research at the annual meeting of same. She went about her work was accompanied by a catalogue. She has also the Archeological Institute of America in San with a selfless, tireless attitude completed an article which will appear in Revo- Diego in January, and her article on the “Seat of that helped sustain those lution by Night: Encounters between Surrealism, the Augustales” at Ostia Antica will be published around her. Anyone who has Politics, and Culture. this winter in the Memoires of the American been in the department for Academy in Rome. In addition, she is collaborating more than a few years can Ludovico Geymonat used Princeton funding to with a team of Italian and American archaeolo- attest to this: her depth of undertake a number of field trips around Greece gists and architectural historians who are studying knowledge of the collections, and Italy last summer and to conduct research in the architectural and topographical development her good, common sense, and Rome, where he is living at the moment. His of the Abbey of San Sebastiano near Alatri, her dry sense of humor made dissertation research focuses on the pictorial outside of Rome. Along with Elizabeth Fentress, each of our lives a little easier. If program of the baptistery at Parma, Italy. In the past Mellon Professor at the American Academy, there is such a thing as a spirit fall he attended a three-day conference on medi- she presented the preliminary findings of the of the place, she was it; we feel eval art organized by the Department of Art project at the University of Pennsylvania in a profound loss. History at the University of Parma, and published February, and plans to return to Italy this summer Ben Kessler an article, “Un apocrifo bizantino nei dipinti to excavate at the abbey. She represented the Director, Slides and duecenteschi del Battistero di Parma,” in Archivio department at the Frick Symposium in New Photographs Storico per le Province Parmensi 51 (2000). It York in March, where she spoke on the augustales explains the unusual iconography of one specific at Herculaneum. In her spare time, she is scene in the Parma paintings as an appropriation precepting for Professor Hugo Meyer’s Roman of a Byzantine model originating in the Holy art class and finishing her dissertation. Land. He plans to do field research in Israel this summer and to come back to Princeton in Sep- Yukio Lippit is a sixth-year graduate student tember. Ludovico recently prepared for publica- studying Japanese art under Yoshiaki Shimizu. tion two entries on works in The Art Museum Last month he was awarded an Andrew W. which will be published in a forthcoming issue Mellon Fellowship from the Center for the of the Record. He’s now researching the decoration Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at of medieval monumental baptisteries and the the National Gallery, which will be effective for historical context in which the decorative pro- two years, from 2001 through 2003. gram of the Parma Baptistery was carried out. [[email protected]] Andrew Hershberger completed and defended Tine L. Meganck is working on a dissertation his dissertation, “Cinema of Stills: Minor White’s on artists and antiquarians in the circle of Theory of Sequential Photography” and will Abraham Ortelius (1520–1598). In the fall of receive his degree in June 2001. While writing 1999 she was a Frances A. Yates Fellow at the his dissertation, he published a feature article in Warburg Institute in London, as well as being a Arts of Asia (March/April 2000) entitled “Felice recipient of a Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship Beato in Macao? Notes on a Panoramic Photo- for the academic year 1999–2000. She has given graph at Princeton.” He also co-curated, with several talks on topics related to her research at Marta Weiss, The Art Museum exhibition Sur- international forums including the Sixteenth- viving the Photograph, in conjunction with the Century Studies Conference, the CAA Conference, conference held in Princeton in October 2000. the “Thesaurus Brandenburgicus” Colloquium During the past academic year Andrew taught as organized by the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Senior Thesis Writers’ Group leader. He also and the “Eendracht en Tweespalt” Conference made a research trip to Modena, Italy, sponsored continued on next page

SPRING   held at the Catholic University of the research for her dissertation, which examines Louvain, Belgium. Tine divides her paintings of miracles of the Virgin in Venice and time between the U.S. and Bel- Padua in the late Counter-Reformation. She also gium, where she currently holds a taught the art history sector for the University of grant from the Fund for Scientific Warwick (Coventry, U.K.) Venice Programme Research, Flanders. last autumn, comprised of ten weeks of intensive lectures, seminars, and rollicking site visits Todor Petev returned to Princeton throughout the Veneto. She expects to complete in February 2001 after nearly two her degree in 2002. years of research in manuscript collections in Belgium and other Dissertations of Currently European countries. He is currently writing his dissertation, “A Middle Enrolled Students Dutch Prayer Book on the Life and Nadja Aksamija Passion of Christ (Kortrijk, S.B. “The Villa in the Life of the Sixteenth-Century Ms. 26): A Study of the Transition Ragusan Patriciate” (Patricia Fortini Brown) from Hand-Produced to Printed Images in the Late Middle Ages,” Nikolas Bakirtzis under the supervision of James “The Monastery of Timios Prodromos near Marrow. Todor is also the guest Serres: The Architecture of the Monastery and Its curator of the exhibition Discover- Environs” (Slobodan Curcic)´ ˇ ´ Vertumnus and Pomona by an ing the Low Countries: Dutch and Flemish Art anonymous Flemish master, Peter Barberie from the Collections of the National Gallery for ca. 1630s, one of the paintings “Charles Marville’s Photographs of the Bois de that will be restored and shown Foreign Art, which will run from 3 October Boulogne” (Peter Bunnell) in an exhibition at the National through 8 November 2001 at the National Kimberly Bowes Gallery in Sofia curated by Gallery in Sofia. This exhibition, the first of its “Christianity in the Private Sphere: Private Todor Petev kind in Bulgaria, will present the results of new research on the national collection and will Chapels, Villa-Churches, and Domestic Piety in include a number of recently restored works. Late Antiquity” (Slobodan Curcic)´ ˇ ´ [[email protected]] Kevin Gray Carr Glenda Middleton Swan, a graduate student in “Ritual Narrative Art in the Medieval Cult of ancient art and archaeology, gave a series of Prince Shotoku” (Yoshiaki Shimizu) lectures at The Art Museum at Princeton Univer- Elena Filipovic sity in October, 2000. These presentations were “Unbuilding: Towards a Surrealist Architecture" designed to introduce a newly acquired Roman (Hal Foster) fresco fragment to both the general public and the docents. The fragment, which depicts an Mary Frank idyllic outdoor sanctuary, was discussed primarily “The Woman of a Certain Age in Sixteenth-Cen- in terms of how the depiction would have been tury Secular Venetian Art” (Patricia Fortini Brown) interpreted in its original role as decoration on Ludovico Geymonat the wall of an ancient Roman home. She is “The Pictorial Program of the Parma Baptistery” completing her dissertation, “Meaning in Con- (Slobodan Curcic)´ ˇ text: Continuous Narrative in Roman Painted ´ Panels,” under the direction of William Childs. Carolyn Guile Jelena Trkulja spent the summer of 2000 doing “The Ambulant Life: Art and Theory at Lazienki field research in Greece, the former Yugoslav Park in Warsaw, 1683–1795” (Thomas DaCosta Republic of Macedonia, Yugoslavia, and Italy, Kaufmann) and is now writing her dissertation: “Articulation Eva Havlicova and Decoration of Late Byzantine Church Facades: “The Development of the Ink Painting Tradition The Case of the ‘Morava Style.’” Next summer in the Kamakura Center of Eastern Japan during and fall she will continue her field work and the Later Muromachi Period” (Yoshiaki Shimizu) archival research in Europe. She is also involved in organizing the exhibition of late Byzantine art, Gordon Hughes Byzantium: Faith and Power, scheduled for 2004 “Robert Delaunay’s Sensory Abstraction” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (Hal Foster) Helen Deborah Walberg is currently wrapping Lori Johnson up a ten-month Gladys Krieble Delmas research “Corot and the Figure in the Landscape” grant for study in Venice, Italy. She is finishing (Carol Armstrong)

 SPRING  Kyriaki Karoglou Dissertations Recently Fellowships and “Early Greek Votive Offerings: The Terracotta Completed Jobs for 2000–01 Plaques” (William Childs) April 2000 Anthony Barbieri-Low: Hyde Yukio Lippit Andrew Sherwood Summer Fellowship “The Birth of Japanese Painting History: Authen- “Roman Architectural Influence in Provincia Asia: Kimberly Bowes: Princeton tication and Inscription in the Seventeenth Augustus to Severus Alexander” University Honorific Fellowship Century” (Yoshiaki Shimizu) Michael Cole: University of May 2000 Hui-wen Lu North Carolina Melissa McCormick “Calligraphy of Stone Engravings in Northern Andrew Hershberger: Bowling “Tosa Mitsunobu’s Ko-E: Forms and Functions Wei Luoyang: The Development of Regular Script Green State University of Small-Format Handscrolls in the Muromachi from the Fifth to Sixth Century” (Wen Fong) Randon Jerris: United States Period (1333–1573)” Golf Association Heather Minor Asen Kirin: University of Georgia Madeleine Viljoen “Alessandro Galilei and Ferdinando Fuga: Hui-wen Lu: Chiang Ching-kuo “Raphael into Print: The Movement of Ideas Architecture in the Roman Republic of Letters” Foundation Fellowship About the Antique in Engravings by Marcantonio (John Pinto) Shane McCausland: University Raimondi and His Shop” of London Mark Mitchell June 2000 Melissa McCormick: Columbia “The Artist-Makers: Professional Art Education Jennifer Hardin University in New York City during the Mid-Nineteenth “The Nude in the Era of the New Movement in Mark Mitchell: CASVA Sum- Century” (John Wilmerding) American Art: Thomas Eakins, Kenyon Cox, mer Fellowship and Winterthur Fellowship Kevin Moore and Augustus Saint-Gaudens” “Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Invention of an Artist Kevin Moore: Whiting Fellowship October 2000 for the History of Photography” (Peter Bunnell) Andrew Sherwood: University Mimi Hellman of Toronto John N. Napoli “The Hôtel de Soubise and the Rohan-Soubise Francesca Toffolo: Gladys “The Certosa di San Martino in Naples: Collabo- Family: Architecture, Interior Decoration, and the Krieble Delmas Fellowship ration, Decoration, and Illusion” (John Pinto) Art of Ambition in Eighteenth-Century France” Helen Deborah Walberg: Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship Todor Petev January 2001 Joshua Waterman: Kress Travel “A Middle Dutch Prayer Book on the Life and Joel Smith Fellowship and Dr. Günther Passion of Christ (Kortrijk, S.B. Ms. 26): A Study “New York Modernism and the Cityscapes of Findel-Stiftung zur Förderung of the Transition from Hand-Produced to Printed Alfred Stieglitz, 1927–1937” der Wissenschaften Images in the Late Middle Ages” (James Marrow) April 2001 Christina Stacy Nicole Fabricand-Person Fellowships for “Veri Ritratti: Pietro Longhi and Genre Painting “Filling the Void: The Fugen Jãrasetsunyo Iconog- 2001–02 in Eighteenth-Century Venice” (Patricia Fortini raphy in Japanese Art” Brown) Nadja Aksamija: Hyde Fellowship Andrew Hershberger Kimberly Bowes: Charlotte W. Christine Tan “Cinema of Stills: Minor White’s Theory of Newcome Fellowship “Illustrated Editions of ‘The Peony Pavilion’: Sequential Photography” Carolyn Guile: Fulbright Scho- Issues of Narrative Illustration in the Late Ming/ larship and ACLS Fellowship Paul Paret Early Qing” (Wen Fong) Gordon Hughes: Whiting “The Crisis of Sculpture in Weimar Germany: Scholarship Hans Thomsen Rudolph Belling, the Bauhaus, Naum Gabo” Kyriaki Karoglou: Homer A. “Ito Jakuchu and the Rokuonji Temple Ensemble Janet Temos and Dorothy B. Thompson of 1759” (Yoshiaki Shimizu) “Augusta’s Glittering Spires: Thomas Archer and Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies in Athens Francesca Toffolo the Queen Anne Churches, 1711–1738” “Art and the Conventual Life in Renaissance Yukio Lippit: CASVA and Andrew Mellon Fellowships Venice: The Monastery Church of Santa Caterina June 2001 de’ Sacchi” (Patricia Fortini Brown) Anthony Barbieri-Low Christina Stacy: Gladys Krieble “The Organization of Imperial Workshops during Delmas Fellowship Jelena Trkulja the Han Dynasty” Hans Thomsen: Fulbright “Articulation and Decoration of Late Byzantine Scholarship Church Facades: The Case of the ‘Morava Style’” Joshua Waterman: Fulbright (Slobodan Curcic)´ ˇ ´ Scholarship Joshua Waterman “The Visual Arts and Poetry in Seventeenth- Century Silesia” (Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann)

SPRING   Excavations

Excavations at Polis the Princeton team uncovered imported Attic Chrysochous, Cyprus pottery of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and a bronze jewelry mold, but, curiously, no Hellenistic large crew of Princetonians and others strata. The discovery of a large Roman drain built returned to the village of Polis with ashlar blocks helps to explain the disrupted A Chrysochous on the northwest coast of stratigraphy: the entire area was churned up by the Cyprus in the summer of 2000 to continue the Roman builders. excavations sponsored by the department and The remains of an Archaic ashlar building of directed by William Childs. Since 1983 the immense size were discovered in a field beyond Princeton team has worked to excavate and the northeastern edge of the village in 1999. The document the remains of the city that was the pottery found there has now been studied, and source of scores of wealthy tombs found in the much of it dates to the first half of the sixth area. According to the literary sources, the city century B.C., giving some support to the idea that called Marion, which was the seat of an Archaic this might have been the “palace” of the Archaic kingdom, was destroyed in 312 B.C. and was city. This year a magnetometer survey of the field succeeded by Arsinoe, the town founded by adjacent to this structure was done by Helmut Ptolemy II Philadelphos in the 270s. Becker of the Bayerisches Landesamt für Nassos Papalexandrou *98 A major part of this season’s digging was Denkmalpflege. Becker’s survey revealed that a excavating one of the charnel done in the area next to the excavation house on rectangular grid of streets lies beneath the entire pits discovered during last the northern edge of the village. Trenches expanse of the field, and that the southernmost summer’s excavations at Polis opened here in previous years had revealed a road leads directly to the ashlar “palace.” Further Chrysochous, Cyprus Lusignan complex of the fourteenth excavation may help to identify the nature and and fifteenth centuries lying above a function of this intriguing building. Byzantine chapel and a large Roman building, probably a villa, with a Excavations at Balis, Syria paved courtyard and elaborately painted Ionic columns. Further The fifth season of excavations sponsored by the digging this year uncovered a mosaic department at the Islamic site of Balis, Syria, took floor of the fourth century A.D. and place in June and July 2000. Director Thomas revealed more of the Byzantine Leisten assembled a roster of participants that church. Numerous pieces of painted included fifteen archaeologists and technicians wall plaster were recovered from the from Syria, the U.S., and Germany. The perma- area of the church, and preliminary nent staff was also joined this year by under- analysis suggests that some of them graduates Hillary Allard ’03 and Dana Brintz ’03, may be the earliest Byzantine wall both veterans of Leisten’s courses on Islamic art. paintings known on Cyprus. The The work in Balis this year focused once excavators also uncovered two rows again on a large, square building, measuring about of charnel pits that contained lamps 200 feet on each side, with towers, gates, and a and metal belt buckles dating to the bath. This structure sits on the ridge of the pla- sixth century A.D. The buckles are a teau of the Arabian desert overlooking the type particularly associated with the Euphrates valley. Architectural characteristics, as Byzantine army and may be related well as ceramics, glass objects, fragments of carved to the bronze spear points and arrow- stucco decoration, and traces of glass mosaics heads that were found to the east of discovered in previous years indicated an early the church. Remains of rubble walling show that Islamic date for this building, around the late a defensive system was thrown up around the seventh or early eighth century A.D. This date was church and over the Roman villa. In the north- confirmed by finds made during the last season, west corner of this area, large ashlar walls with including an inscription and datable coins. rubble filling and some mud brick were found. This building belongs to a group of struc- These may belong to the fourth-century B.C. city tures identified as the “desert palaces” of the defenses, possibly to one of the city gates. Umayyad dynasty. These so-called palaces served Excavations also continued in the trench the caliphs and relatives of their families as plea- closest to the center of the village, where a basilica sure domes, hunting lodges, and pieds-à-terre in of the sixth century A.D. has been unearthed. Here tribal areas that cover modern Syria, Jordan,

 SPRING  Lebanon, and Palestine. They also probably Leisten’s team was able to clear this functioned as the administrative centers of vast channel system for a length of more agricultural domains. Excavations of other than ninety feet, when the work was Umayyad palaces of this period have produced stopped for reasons of safety. Since scant evidence to support the idea that the caliphs these drains were used as waste of this era, rulers of a world empire, were also dumps by the inhabitants of the farmers and horse breeders. The Princeton team palace, the large amounts of bone discovered twenty rooms within the mansion at and plant material recovered will Balis that were clearly used for some kind of help us reconstruct the diet of these production that required the use of large amounts royal farmers. of water, providing undeniable substantiation of Excavations atop the city wall of this theory. Ten of these rooms were built on an Balis, showing some of the elevated level and had concrete floors and splash- houses that were built there, proof walls. Drains from these rooms evacuated rendering the city defenseless waste water into underground channels cut into before the Mongol invaders the conglomerate rock outside the building. who arrived in 1263 The Nolli Database

or many years Professor John Pinto had has an enrollment of nearly 1,000 alumni (www. seen the frustrations of students attempt- princeton.edu/almagest/princeton_rome). The Fing to come to grips with the urban con- digital technology allows students and teachers text of buildings, which are so often presented in to approach instruction and learning in new ways slides as isolated monuments. How does one that emphasize the emphatically contextual building or set of buildings relate to others? nature of architecture and urban form. How did natives, pilgrims, and tourists of the Students can virtually walk along an eigh- eighteenth century move through the city of teenth-century street: by clicking right and left Rome and experience it? New digital technolo- on monuments they can pull up images showing John Pinto (center) discusses gies seemed to offer the means to explore these the buildings as they appear today and—empha- the Nolli database project with and other questions. Six years ago, Pinto received sizing printed views by Nolli’s contemporaries Kirk Alexander, director of the support from the 250th Anniversary Fund to Piranesi and Vasi—as they appeared in the past. Educational Technologies Cen- apply new digital technologies to his courses in Or, to cite another example, they can display all ter, and instructional designer the history of architecture and urbanism. At the of the sites mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Janet Temos *2001 (Art and time he never imagined how involved he would novel The Marble Faun, experiencing the city Archaeology) become with this project or the degree to which through a literary lens. The on-line it would change the way his students study. version of Nolli’s plan not only Working with Kirk Alexander and the staff lends itself to exploring the of the Educational Technologies Center, as well horizontal dimension of urban as with Ben Kessler of Slides and Photographs, form—linked sequences of Pinto has developed an interactive database of streets and squares—but texts and images relating to the city of Rome as also vertically layered sites an artistic center. Giovanni Battista Nolli’s eigh- such as San Clemente teenth-century plan functions as the front end of and St. Peter’s. the database (www.princeton.edu/almagest/ Students can now nollimap.html). The user clicks on buildings engage with architecture and urban spaces on the map to gain access to a and its urban setting in rich collection of data, including over 1,500 new and exciting ways. digitized slides as well as thumbnail building One interested in papal histories, literary quotations, and bibliographical patronage, for example, can references. The Nolli database is sophisticated call up all of the buildings and flexible enough to support a variety of appli- erected under Julius II or cations. These have included a freshman semi- Alexander VII. Others can search by nar, two undergraduate lecture courses, and an architects and building types: fountains, Jon Roemer on-line course which integrates multimedia and continued on next page

SPRING   churches, and villas, for example. It is also pos- greater degree of involvement on the part of sible to trace and partially reconstruct important students with the urban structure in which his- processional routes, such as the Papal Way. By torical buildings are embedded. This occurs at highlighting street systems and groups of build- multiple levels, ranging from formal lecture ings experienced sequentially on the Nolli plan, presentations to preceptorial discussions, to the students can escape the tyranny of the traditional process of on-line review and problem solving. art-historical emphasis on individual monuments He has found that the database also facilitates a and establish a more contextual approach that more interactive kind of teaching, one which emphasizes the city as an organic totality. Pre- moves away from the passive reception of knowl- sented in this way, the city starts to come alive; edge by the students to the more active give-and- students begin to explore Rome on their own, take of discussions and collaborative projects. asking and answering questions as they move Finally, it allows him to ask more challenging through it. questions, and the students to take on more Over several years, Pinto has observed many ambitious assignments. ways in which the new technology permits a far Marquand Library News

ibrarian Janice Powell reports that for the libraries—Engineering and Mudd. All of the last eleven years department faculty and collections should remain accessible to users Lthe staff of the Marquand Library have during the renovation, except during the actual been planning toward the renovation and limited moving process of one to two weeks. Planning expansion of the current building. Several plans for the complex moving process is well underway, were put forth over the years, but the final mas- as is the design for the new library. Janice Powell ter plan, worked on by the Boston firm Shepley, is coordinating the move and is actively involved The frontispiece of volume three Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot (SBRA), was in the design phase. of Jonathon Friedrich Penther’s unanimously adopted by the faculty and subse- The University Library has introduced a Erster Theil einer ausfürlichen quently by the department’s advisory council last new integrated computer system, Voyager (http: Anleitung zur bürgerlichen Bau- spring. Fund-raising began immediately thereaf- //libweb.princeton.edu), that allows users to Kunst (Augsburg, 1746), one of ter, and the kickoff meeting for the design phase view the on-line catalogue as well as items that the rare books acquired by the was held in February. SBRA was awarded the have been recently acquired but not yet cata- Marquand Library this year contract for the renovation; ground-breaking logued. Nearly all of the records for material is planned for the spring of 2002. catalogued before 1980 have also been converted The expansion will include an underground and are included in the new catalogue. This wing beneath the current McCormick integrated catalogue joins the many electronic entrance courtyard, approximately doubling databases now available to researchers using the size of the A floor, and a third story will Marquand, radically changing the way in which be added to the roof. Study space will be art-historical research is conducted. expanded and greatly enhanced, the collec- The library continues to buy extensively in tions will be reorganized in new sequences, all of the traditional fields of Western art and and a state-of-the-art facility for reproduc- architectural history, as well as classical, medieval, ing text and images will be added. Less Islamic, pre-Columbian, and Far Eastern art and visible improvements will include the re- archaeology. In the last several years special em- moval of asbestos and the upgrading of all phasis has been given to a significant expansion of the air-handling, electrical, and cabling of the modern collections, including photography. systems. Simultaneously, the University’s The number of Web resources for locating articles planning office will undertake further reno- and images has also increased. Marquand contin- vations to other parts of McCormick Hall ues to acquire facsimiles and rare materials. Last and The Art Museum. The final phase of year the library acquired facsimile editions of the the project will include improvements to Lorsch Gospels, Das Lorscher Evangeliar (Lucerne the landscaping around McCormick. and Vatican City, 2000); the Morgan Crusader As early as this summer, Marquand’s collec- Bible, Das Kreuzritterbibel (Lucerne and New tions will be moved to two other campus York, 1998); and Melchior Lorich’s 1559 pan-

 SPRING  orama of Istanbul (Istanbul, 1999). We were also Architecturae Civilis Eclecticae (Nürnberg, 1732– fortunate to be able to purchase original first 35). editions of Karl Robert Schindelmayer’s three- Marquand has also acquired a scanner, and volume Description des principaux parcs et jardins students can now scan and e-mail images to de l’Europe (Vienna, 1812), Alain Bosquet’s Les themselves. Three staff members joined the Américains, with photographs by Robert Frank library this year: Steven Brown, Robert Gross, (Paris, 1958), Jonathon Friedrich Penther’s four- and Yili Fan, replacing Pat Vizzoni, Carrie volume Erster Theil einer ausfürlichen Anleitung Swanson, and Guangmei Li. Photocopying hours zur bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst (Augsburg, 1744–48), during the academic term have been extended, and Johann Jacob Schübler’s five-volume Synopsis so that photocopying is now possible whenever the library is open. Slides & Photographs

t is not an exaggeration to say that the slide and photograph collections form the life blood of the department. Departmental

I hn Blazejeswki curriculum and research are now supported by some 330,000 slides and countless photographs. Jo In recent years, 17,000 digitized images have been added to these materials. Production of these resources depends on photographic skill, and access to them depends on accurate catalog- ing and classification. A database that keeps track of artists, places, works of art and architec- ture, and bibliographical sources has now accu- mulated records pertaining to 100,000 slides. None of this would be possible without the wide-ranging skills and knowledge of an able and dedicated staff, directed by Ben Kessler:

Shari Kenfield, curator of research photographs, Slides and Photographs staff: marked her thirtieth year at Princeton this Marilyn Gazzillo, media specialist/art cataloger, (left to right) Shari Kenfield, spring. Holder of an M.A. in art history from received a B.A. in studio art/art history at Marilyn Gazzillo, JoAnn Rutgers, Shari has maintained and preserved a Millersville University and is in her nineteenth Boscarino, Lisa Troy, Virginia photographic archive that includes the results of year in Slides and Photographs. Marilyn is re- French, Xia Wei (not pictured: over one hundred years of Princeton’s archaeo- sponsible for projecting slides in department David Connelly) logical activity. Much of this material is unique classes that are taught in McCormick Hall— and serves researchers from around the world. approximately 8,200 classes as of this spring. As This past year, Shari helped organize and mount audio-visual technology has become more com- an exhibition of rare photographs of the early plex, she has taken on a greater range of video Islamic palace at Mshatta in Jordan. and digital applications in her capacity as projec- David Connelly, photographer, came to Prince- tionist. Marilyn has also contributed to the slide ton in 1973. He studied photography at the cataloging effort, working primarily on Islamic Rochester Institute of Technology. Few art his- decorative arts and architecture. tory departments have a photographer with JoAnn Boscarino, imaging specialist/art cata- David’s level of skill and professionalism. In loger, joined the Slides and Photographs staff in recent years, David has made a leap of interest 1992 and holds a B.A. in studio art from Drew from the analog to the digital world, and he has University. She has applied her versatile skills to become an enthusiastic participant in our digital both the research photograph and the slide projects. He also periodically provides instruc- collections. For research photos she has helped tional workshops on photographic methods to develop automated finding aids to specialized graduate students. holdings. In the slide collection she has cataloged continued on next page

SPRING   Department material ranging from Islamic architecture to Virginia French, in her third year at Princeton, to Exhibit twentieth-century photography. JoAnn serves a was recently promoted to assistant to the director Coomaraswamy special function as a digitized imaging specialist, of Slides and Photographs. She received an M.A. handling the scanning of slides and the post- in European history from Columbia and as an Photographs processing of photo-CD images. JoAnn has also undergraduate studied classical archaeology at contributed her photographic and design skills Hunter College. As a slide cataloger, Virginia is Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy to a number of projects. responsible for works from the ancient world, an (1877–1947), the pioneer histo- often recondite area that she has negotiated well. Xia Wei, curator of Far Eastern slides and pho- rian of Indian art and one of the As assistant to the director, she manages the daily tographs, came to the Department of Art and leading interpreters of Indian work-flow of slide production; she has improved Archaeology in 1993. A graduate of Beijing culture to the West, was also a efficiency by instituting a number of work-saving University, Xia Wei has a broad knowledge of great collector of photographs procedures in our operation. documenting the culture and Chinese art and has gained a strong understand- peoples of southeast Asia. His ing of Japanese art. Her extensive knowledge of Lisa Troy, art cataloger, joined the Slides and archive of black-and-white both Eastern and Western languages provides Photographs staff in 1999. She earned an M.A. prints—which is particularly Princeton with a rare talent, and allows her to in art history from the University of Pittsburgh, rich in images of dance drama oversee her portion of the collections in an specializing in Renaissance and Baroque art. Lisa in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cambo- autonomous way. She has independently devel- is responsible for cataloging a wide range of slides, dia, Indonesia, and China— oped a slide cataloging database that helps pro- from the Renaissance to the modern period, and came to the department in the vide access to a complex classification system. has contributed her knowledge in particular areas 1970s and is now part of the such as frescoes and old master prints. research photographs collec- tion. Curator of research photo- graphs Shari Kenfield and graduate student Andrew Index of Christian Art Hershberger *01 have selected thirty-four photographs from this fascinating collection, he Index of Christian Art continues to Index provided the model and inspiration for the which has never before been expand and develop under the direction creation of the Index of Jewish Art, which is exhibited, for the exhibition Tof Colum Hourihane. The Index re- based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Glimpses of the East: Photo- cently completed the first year of a long-term With the current interest in Islamic art at Prince- graphs from the Ananda project to catalogue the Morgan Library’s entire ton, it is hoped that an index of Islamic art will Coomaraswamy Collection.” collection of Western manuscripts. Full-color be undertaken in the near future, filling the Most of these photographs images, most of which have never before been vacuum that exists for the study of images relat- date from the late nineteenth published, and accompanying iconographical ing to this third major world religion. In the and early twentieth centuries, analysis are posted on the Index’s World Wide meantime, with the assistance of Mika Nativ, a and many of them document Web site as soon as the manuscripts are cata- doctoral student at New York University, and the elaborate costumes and logued. Over one hundred Morgan manuscripts Oleg Grabar of the Institute for Advanced Study, highly ritualized performances are already accessible via the Internet, and the a start was made in the Index of Christian Art of southeast Asian dance project is being praised as a model of collabora- during the summer months. Over four hundred drama. The exhibition also tion within the library and art world. works of art representing Christian motifs in includes striking portraits and The Internet database of the Index, which Islamic art were catalogued and entered into the atmospheric genre scenes. The is now available from Israel to Los Angeles, has database; they are currently available on the value of these images is more also attracted considerable attention. It is the Index’s Web site. Some of these motifs, such as than just documentary—they largest database available to the medieval iconog- Mohammad, are subjects which were not previ- also provide a vivid illustration rapher via the Internet, with records for over ously represented in the Index, while others, such of Coomaraswamy’s apprecia- twenty thousand works of art and some forty as Christ’s death, broaden pre-existing subjects: tion of the aesthetics of photog- thousand images. The Index is also making its in Islamic art Christ is never shown crucified. raphy. The exhibition, which resources available in more traditional forms: last This project continues on a limited basis as part will include a biographical summer saw the release of the first extract from of the Index of Christian Art, but we hope that it sketch of Coomaraswamy by the Index files to be published in book format. will soon develop a life of its own. Professor Thomas Leisten, will Focusing on the personifications of virtue and Work on converting the Index’s sculpture be on display in McCormick vice in the Index, this volume is expected to be records to an electronic format was given a consid- Hall from June through Decem- the first of many such extracts. erable boost this year when it received permission ber 2001. This summer the Index of Christian Art to digitize the entire photographic archives of received a grant to explore the development of a James Austin, fine arts photographer of Cam- prototype Index of Islamic art. In the 1960s the bridge, England. Austin is recognized as one of the

 SPRING  capacity audience, was the close relationship between art and the liturgy. Entitled “Objects, Images, and the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy,” it brought together a number of speak- ers from the U.S. and abroad to present their research on this subject. Leslie Bussis Tait left the Index to join the National Museum of Catholic Art and History, which is soon to open in New York. Leslie takes up the post of curator at the museum, and we wish her well in her new position. Her replace- ment, Aharon (Rick) Wright, is a graduate of Princeton who completed his doctoral studies under Michael Curschmann. It is with sadness that we report the death of Elizabeth Beatson. Elizabeth was one of those rare characters who, once met, would never be forgotten. She worked in the Index for a number of years and maintained a parental interest in its development right up to the moment of her death. She will be sorely missed by all of her colleagues and many friends in Princeton.

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Beatson

When I first arrived in Princeton in 1981, one of the first people I met was Elizabeth Beatson, who shared my interest in Italian trecento paint- ing. We spent many hours in animated discus- Saint Nicasius and Saint Eutropia on the north sions of various aspects of early Italian painting transept portal of Reims cathedral, one of the and other topics. Highly intelligent, she was photos from the James Austin archive that is critical of any new idea for analyzing paintings. being added to the Index of Christian Art’s Lectures by prominent scholars came under her database withering analysis if their ideas were illogical or not well presented. She did not suffer fools gladly, world’s finest photographers of medieval sculpture though it was beneath her to humiliate anyone and architecture, and a copy of his archive is in public. housed in the Slides and Photographs collection For a long time I tried to convince in the department. Digitization of Austin’s archive Elizabeth that punch tool analysis has already begun, and several hundred black- could tell us much more about and-white images of Moissac, Arles, Chartres, and the interactions of workshops Auxerre, among other sites, are now available on than stylistic analysis alone. the Index’s Internet site. The focus of the collection We argued at length about is mainly French Romanesque and Gothic sculp- this, she criticizing the ture and architecture, and its quality and coverage validity of the entire meth- are unparalleled. odology, while I tried to As part of its ongoing program of confer- show how it could be used ences and lectures, the Index worked closely properly. She could be exas- with the Program in Medieval Studies during the perating at times, and I am last year to organize a number of public lectures. not sure that she ever accepted Among the speakers were Katrin Kogman Appel my ideas on the matter. of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, who Lacking a formal degree in art history, Elizabeth Beatson spoke on Jewish iconography, and Mat Immerzal she seemed reluctant to step out on her own, even and Karel Innemée, both from the Netherlands though her knowledge of languages, iconography, Institute for Near Eastern Studies in Leiden, and the history of early Italian painting was out- who brought us up to date on recent discoveries standing. She felt more comfortable working with of Coptic wall painting. The focus of the most recent Index conference, which attracted a near- continued on next page

SPRING   or for others, and for many years she was Millard in Italy. She was always caring for others, rarely Meiss’s primary researcher. for herself. And then one day she was gone, never My fondest memory of Elizabeth was work- to return. ing with her on the Saint Victor altarpiece in Norman E. Muller Siena cathedral. Henk van Os had suggested that Conservator, The Art Museum the center panel of this long-missing paint- ing was in the Fogg Museum, and Janet Strohl that the two side panels were in Copenhagen. I approached The computerization of the Index of Christian the problem from a techni- Art has made many demands on the skills and cal point of view, while expertise of its staff since it was first begun in the Elizabeth, a researcher par early 1990s. The database is now used on a daily excellence, focused on the basis and has in many ways replaced the tradition- history of the altarpiece al paper files for which the Index was renowned. and the cathedral. Judith The photographic files continue to be maintained, Steinhoff *90, then a but in the last few years the text files have been graduate student in the entered only in electronic format. With this department, fortuitously transfer have come many advantages and, under- located a sixteenth-century standably, many problems! Only a calm and cool cathedral inventory which men- person could take responsibility for the Index’s Janet Strohl tioned the altarpiece, its subject, and database, and we are fortunate in having had the artist, Bartolomeo Bulgarini, whose works Janet Strohl assume these duties for the past two had not yet been firmly identified. The three of years. A native of Princeton, Janet has over ten us published our findings in The Art Bulletin in years’ experience in computer training and cus- 1986. It was a wonderful collaborative effort, tomer support skills, and came to us from the made possible by Elizabeth’s creative and excit- commercial world, where she developed particu- ing leadership. lar expertise as an analyst. With a far-reaching I can still see Elizabeth—tall, slim, elegantly background in database structures, as well as a dressed, often wearing a stylish hat and looking degree in computer science from Rutgers Univer- somewhat like Virginia Woolf—striding purpose- sity, she has been a valuable asset in this period of fully to a date with one of her numerous friends. change in the Index. Answering queries and She would sometimes disappear for weeks or solving problems for students and staff alike, she months on end, only to reappear suddenly to undertakes all of her duties in a particularly regale me with stories about caring for a friend capable and efficient manner. Publications

he highlight of the department’s publi- Virtues and Vices in nearly a thousand of works cations program this year was the inau- of art produced between the fifth and the fifteenth Tguration of a new series from the Index centuries. The entries include objects in twelve of Christian Art, Index of Christian Art Resources, different media and give detailed information on which will make selected subjects of the Index’s their current location, date, and subject. vast catalogue of Christian iconography available Accompanying the catalogue are six essays to a much broader audience. devoted to the theme of virtue and vice. They The first volume in this series, Virtue and investigate topics such as the didactic function of Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian the bestiaries and the Physiologus, female personi- Art (Princeton, 2000), publishes the Index’s fications in the Psychomachia of Prudentius, the holdings of 227 Virtues and Vices. Ranging from Virtues in the Floreffe Bible frontispiece, and Abstinence to Wisdom and from Ambition to good and evil in the architectural sculpture of Wrath, and including depictions of the Tree of German sacramentary houses. Colum Hourihane, Virtues, the Tree of Vices, and the Conflict of director of the Index of Christian Art, edited the Virtues and Vices, this is the most comprehensive volume and contributed one of the essays. list of such personifications in existence. The The department also published From Ireland catalogue documents the occurrence of these Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the

 SPRING  Late Gothic Period and Its European Context, the Christopher Moss, a tribute to the well-known proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Byzantine scholar, the first woman to earn a Index of Christian Art and edited by Colum Ph.D. in the department; and The Byzantine Hourihane. Focusing on Irish art from the Octateuchs, by Kurt Weitzmann and Massimo eighth century A.D. to the end of the Norman Bernabò, the long-awaited corpus of Byzantine period, this volume challenges the idea that the manuscript illuminations. Image and Belief: best-known Irish monuments of that period— Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary the high crosses, the Book of Kells, the Tara of the Index of Christian Art, which the depart- Brooch, the round towers—reflect isolated ment published in 1999, received the Franklin Insular traditions. Seventeen scholars examine Award for educational books in the Neographics the iconography, history, and structure of these 2000 competition. familiar works and a number of previously un- Current projects include the second volume published pieces, demonstrating that they do have of Index of Christian Art Resources, this one on a place in the main currents of contemporary representations of King David. The department’s European art. Its emphasis on later monuments publications program is directed by Editor of makes this one of the first volumes to deal exten- Publications Christopher Moss *88. All of our sively with Irish art after the Norman invasion. books are distributed by Princeton University Other recent department publications Press (http://pup.princeton.edu, select Browse include Medieval Cyprus: Studies in Art, Architec- by Series, then Publications of the Department ture, and History in Memory of Doula Mouriki of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University). [*70], edited by Nancy Patterson Sevcenkoˇ ˇ and Alumni News

Undergraduates Not So Big House and Creating The Not So Big House. She is interested in hearing about new Alison Sharpe Avram ’91 married another products or ideas related to this field. Princeton alum, Mathew Avram ’89, in 1993. [[email protected]] She then attended medical school at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Kirsten Kessler Beronio ’90 earned a master’s graduating in 1996. She completed her resi- degree in art history at Northwestern University, dency in dermatology at the Hospital of the then attended law school at Georgetown University University of Pennsylvania in June 2000, ap- in Washington, D.C. She and college sweetheart proximately three weeks after she had her first George Beronio ’90 (School of Engineering) child, daughter Rachel. She is currently practic- were married in the Princeton Chapel in June of ing dermatology in New York, but in June 2001 1996. They still live in Washington, where she will move to Boston, where her husband will spent several years working as a legislative aide in complete his dermatology training at Massachu- the U.S. Senate. Kirsten is currently doing advo- setts General Hospital. [[email protected]] cacy work on Capitol Hill for the National Mental Health Association, working to improve Jessica Ahnert ’00, who wrote her thesis on awareness, prevention, and treatment of mental modern domestic architecture and urban design, illness. [[email protected]] is now working at the production office of the television series Bob Vila’s Home Again in Cam- Marina Birch ’98 is living in Chicago, where she bridge, Massachusetts. As a research assistant she is working on a degree in interior design. She has helps develop ideas for the show, including also started her own interior design company, design concepts, products, locations, architects, Birch Design Studio, Ltd., and is involved in builders, and developers. Jessica recently at- several projects at the moment. Most of her tended the National Association of Home Build- clients also have an interest in art, so she intends ers Trade Show in Atlanta, where she met Andres to add art consultation to her services. She and Duany and Sarah Susanka, both of whose work her boyfriend, a fellow Tiger from the economics provided valuable information for her thesis. In department, recently acquired a house in Chicago, the coming year, along with her research at Bob but they hope to return to New York in about Vila’s Home Again, she will be helping Sarah two years, after she graduates. Susanka with a PBS series about her books The [[email protected]] continued on next page

SPRING   Natasha Bult ’91, after studying with Emmet and risk assessment company located in midtown Gowin in the Visual Arts Department, worked Manhattan. [[email protected]] with photographer Frederick Sommer and then Rowena Houghton Dasch ’97 is in the second founded The School of Black and White Pho- year of the master’s program in art history at the tography, based on her studies with Emmet University of Texas at Austin; she plans to gradu- at Princeton. The school is now accredited ate in December of 2001. Last fall she married a and has wonderful premises in London’s fellow Princetonian, Kevin Dasch ’97. center. It also offers photographic trips to [[email protected]] Paris, London, and New York. [[email protected]] Jessica Dheere ’93 interned at The Art Museum in Princeton after graduation, then moved back Katherine Healy Burrows ’90 danced as a to her hometown, Memphis, where she did some principal ballerina with Les Ballets de graduate work in art history. She wrote art reviews Monte Carlo for a full season, and then for Memphis’s alternative weekly, the Memphis with the Vienna State Opera Ballet for six Flyer, and in 1997, building on the architectural years, also as principal ballerina. She also history she studied at Princeton, began working guested with different companies through- in the communications department of the out Europe and in various gala perfor- American Institute of Architects in Washington, mances. In late 1997 she returned to the D.C. Her job involved writing and editing for United States and to professional figure the Institute’s monthly newspaper and for their skating. Katherine has skated in several Web site. In April 1999 Jessica moved to New television specials, does exhibitions, and is York, where she took a position with Architec- coaching and choreographing eligible-track tural Record. She’s now the managing editor of Alyson Goodner ’00 at competitive figure skaters. In January she ARTnews magazine, which covers the art world graduation 2000 went to the United States National Figure Skat- from a journalistic perspective. Under her direc- ing Championships in Boston, this time as a tion, ARTnews does investigative features (for coach. She was married in September 1997. She example, on disputes surrounding artist’s estates), and her husband live on Long Island, where they profiles contemporary artists moving into the run two figure skating schools, and a third at public eye, identifies trends and reports on devel- Monsey, New York, which is a high-level train- opments in scholarly research, and, as the name ing center. [[email protected]] suggests, focuses on what’s news in the art world. Sara Bush ’94 is working as the development [[email protected]] coordinator for the Timken Museum of Art in Todd Felix ’00 traveled with Professor Thomas San Diego. She completed her law degree at the Leisten to the Middle East to work on Princeton’s University of San Diego in May. archaeological excavation of Kharab Sayaar. After [[email protected]] returning to the U.S. he worked as a “professional Isabella Califano ’95 lives in San Francisco, pet-care technician,” then as a ski instructor in where she has started a company, Chickabiddy, Colorado, later travelling in New Zealand (with with her former advertising boss. Chickabiddy Abi Ochs), Australia, and southeast Asia. Todd manufactures women’s surf and snowboard currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is ac- clothing, selling wholesale to about 90 stores— tively pursuing an acting career in film and tele- surf/snow shops and high-end Palm Beach bou- vision. He is very busy as a caterer and with tiques—as well as through their Web site at restaurant work, but has signed with agencies www.chickabiddy.com. This June she and Tim and a manager and booked a few small roles on Ehrlich ’95 (Classics) will be married. television. He also works as a freelance writer. [[email protected]] [[email protected]] Brooke Collier ’99 continues to enjoy covering Emily Finkelstein ’96 graduated from medical beautiful works of art, gorgeous gardens, and school at Yale this May, and has applied for fabulous homes—not as a student, but as an residency in internal medicine. She’s enjoyed editorial assistant at House and Garden magazine. spending much of her free time during the last She also writes for Cooking Light magazine and four years in New York City visiting museums lives in New York City with two fellow classmates. and art galleries. [[email protected]] Blair Fowlkes ’98 is currently a second-year Jamie Crapanzano ’00 is currently working as an student pursuing a Ph.D. in classical archaeology analyst in the Technology Group of BlackRock at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Financial Management, a portfolio management [[email protected]]

 SPRING  Carrington Nelson Fox ’93 returned to Nash- of martyrdom and representation are visualized, Art Museum ville after working in London and Prague after codified, and revised. She is working on a broad graduation. She worked as a business reporter range of related topics, including the depiction News for The Tennessean newspaper for two years and of martyrs and the establishing of martyrs’ muse- received her M.B.A. this spring from Vanderbilt ums and monuments after the Iran-Iraq War New Curator of Prints University’s Owen Graduate School of Manage- (1980–88). She currently has three articles in and Drawings ment. She writes a monthly food column for a press. [[email protected]] local magazine and has worked as a field reporter Jacqui Hall ’95 is working as an interior design Laura M. Giles has joined The in South Africa for the International Red Cross. intern at the Hillier Group in New York and Art Museum as associate curator In November, she married David Fox (Univer- studying interior design at the Parsons School of of prints and drawings, succeed- sity of Virginia ’83). Design. [[email protected]] ing Barbara Ross, who retired in [[email protected]] 1999. Laura comes to Princeton Gregory Harlan ’95 recently graduated from the from The Art Institute of Chi- Lucia Cudemo Franke ’99 is teaching U.S. University of Southern California School of cago, where she was research history and world history to seventh- and eighth- Medicine. While in medical school he spent curator for Italian drawings. She grade students at Earl Warren Middle School in eight months working on an infant growth has also held positions at the Solana Beach, California. She plans to begin a research project in Guatemala, and he’s now a Spencer Museum of Art at the masters’ program in education this summer in pediatric resident at the University of California, University of Kansas at the San Diego area. [[email protected]] San Francisco. He is recently engaged. Lawrence, the Musée du Louvre, Susie Gelbron ’95 has started a design and [[email protected]] and the Fogg Art Museum at letterpress business, Carrot & Stick Press, with Cynthia Harris ’90 is living in New York City Harvard. While at The Art Insti- business partner Julie Walker, whom she met in and has a career in graphic design. She is cur- tute, Laura co-authored, with the graduate program at the California College rently associate design director of MORE maga- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Ital- of Arts and Crafts. Their business is located in zine, a national women’s fashion and beauty ian Drawings before 1600 in the Oakland, California, but they work with clients magazine targeting women over forty, where she Art Institute of Chicago nationally as well as locally. Carrot & Stick has worked since the magazine was launched two (Princeton University Press, specializes in custom-designed wedding invita- and a half years ago. [[email protected]] 1997). She also coordinated a tions and business and social stationery. Their major documentation project, Web site is www.carrotandstickpress.com. Alex Heilner ’93 has been living in New York researched and recommended [[email protected]] since 1996. He received his M.F.A. in photogra- phy and related media from the School of Visual drawings for purchase, and Margaret (Megan) Wellford Grinder ’95 has Arts in 1998 and has been teaching photography, worked on publications. Laura been married for four years to Brett Grinder digital imaging, and video production since. He’s received her B.A. degree from (Georgia Tech ’95). They live in Memphis, currently teaching in the Department of Photog- Swarthmore College, her M.A. Tennessee, which is their hometown. Their first raphy and Imaging at NYU’s Tisch School of the from Williams College, and her child, daughter Anne Stewart Grinder, was born Arts. Since leaving Princeton, Alex has shown his Ph.D. in art history from in October 2000. Megan spends most of her work in galleries, museums, and at video festi- Harvard. time raising her daughter, but also paints oil vals. His work continues to build upon themes portraits, mostly of children. developed in his undergraduate thesis: investiga- [[email protected]] tions into the nature of “natural” and “human- Christiane Gruber ’98 is in the Ph.D. program made” environments in the landscape, as well as in Islamic art history at the University of Penn- the societal constructs of our world. Recently he sylvania in Philadelphia. She also works on a has been collaborating with directors and per- regular basis at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, formers to create original multimedia theater. where she researches objects in the Islamic art “47 FRAMES,” a show developed as part of the collections, gives public tours, and has taught a Cypher Collective, premiered in Amherst, Mas- course entitled “An Introduction to Islamic Art.” sachusetts, in July 2000. [[email protected]] Last fall she was in Iran on an American Insti- Frederick Ilchman ’90 is finishing his Columbia tute for Iranian Studies fellowship, taking ad- University Ph.D. on Venetian painting (specifi- vanced Persian language classes at the University cally Tintoretto), a field he first explored with of Tehran, as well as doing research in museums Patricia Fortini Brown in 1987. He lived in and traveling around the country. Christiane Venice for more than four years, enjoying the plans to write a dissertation on the depictions of support of a Fulbright and two grants from the saints and martyrs in medieval Islamic manu- Metropolitan Museum. He has also worked for scripts, particularly in cycles which represent the Save Venice Inc., the largest non-profit organiza- “mi’raj” (or Muhammad’s mythical ascension to tion dedicated to preserving the artistic patri- heaven), and how medieval and modern theories mony of the Serenissima. His recent publications continued on next page

SPRING   Art Museum include an article on Venetian painting for the tomb. This year she has been teaching survey Time Out Venice guidebook and an article on classes at Rutgers and in the Paul McGhee Divi- News Titian for Rembrandt and the Venetian Influence sion of N.Y.U. [[email protected]] (Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, 2000). Matthew Robb ’94 completed a one-year ap- He stays in touch with a number of faculty and Le Corbusier pointment as assistant curator of pre-Columbian concentrators from his Princeton years and is Exhibition art at The Art Museum in Princeton and has close friends with a number of Princeton gradu- taken a position as visiting assistant curator of ate students now working on Venetian topics. When French modernist archi- ancient American art at the Walters Art Museum [[email protected]] tect Le Corbusier came to in Baltimore. He will begin course work on his America for the first time in Jamye Fe Michele Jamison ’96 spent three and Ph.D. at Yale University in the fall of 2001, 1935 he gave a series of three a half years as an assistant in the Department of studying with Mary Miller ’75. He also serves as lectures in Princeton. As he Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadel- a researcher for the Metropolitan Museum of discussed his theories of archi- phia Museum of Art. Last fall she returned to Art’s “Timeline of Art History” Web site. tecture and urban planning, he school and is currently at the University of Texas [[email protected]] drew with colored chalk on long at Austin working on her master’s degree in the Clare Rogan ’90 is living in Boston and writing sheets of paper tacked to the Preservation and Conservation Studies Program. a Ph.D. dissertation at Brown University in the wall. Two vibrant drawings, She expects to graduate in 2003 with a special- history of art. The title is “Desiring Women: each approximately sixteen feet ization in book and paper conservation. Constructing the Lesbian in German Art and long, survived from those lec- [[email protected]] Visual Culture, 1900–1933.” tures. Rarely seen and never Tim Johnston ’97 is currently clerking for a [[email protected]] exhibited, these drawings were federal judge in Worcester, Massachusetts. Next the centerpiece of an exhibition Tara Weiscarger Seidel ’94 graduated from fall, he’ll join the law firm Nutter, McClennen organized by The Art Museum Duke Law School in May of 2000. Last August and Fish, LLP, in Boston. and the School of Architecture. she and her husband Peter Seidel ’94 moved to [[email protected]] The installation by Jesse A. North Carolina, where she works as a health care Reiser, a partner at RUR Archi- Mark Jones ’94 graduated from Stanford Law attorney at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice tecture PC, reflected the esprit School in 1999 and has since been living in New LLC in Research Triangle Park. nouveau of Le Corbusier’s lec- York, where he practices tax and securities law. [[email protected]] tures. Models and photographs He continues to be involved with Princeton Darcey Shaiman ’97 lives in Jerusalem with her of the projects represented in Project 55 and is helping to plan a public service husband Shani and their nine-month-old son the drawings were also on dis- program to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Shmuel Yovel. She continues to paint, both her play, along with the film New York City Project 55 program. own works and on commission. Most recently, L’architecture aujourd’hui, made [[email protected]] she and her husband started an artists’ printing by the architect in 1931. The Jacob Lauinger ’99 will receive his M.A. in business, Giclee Images. The company specializes Museum also organized a series Mesopotamian history from the University of in low-cost printing for artists working in Israel, of lectures and gallery talks that Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Lan- and the response has been very good. Darcey’s examined Le Corbusier’s impact guages and Civilizations this summer. He plans (not very up-to-date) Web site is at www.ajp. and the reception of modernism to continue his studies toward a Ph.D. in com, then choose “Sheva Chaya Shaiman” in the in America. Assyriology. [[email protected]] list of artists. [[email protected]] Cecilia Silver ’00 is a candidate for an M.St. Sarah Hermanson Meister ’94 is currently degree in the history of art and visual culture at working as an assistant curator in the Depart- Oxford University and is enjoying both England ment of Photography at The Museum of Mod- and the program, which she finds particularly ern Art in New York. In addition to her exciting. She is currently focusing on the history collection and acquisition responsibilities, she of collecting in Europe, with an emphasis on recently organized a small exhibition of Henri cultural property, and is pleased to report that Cartier-Bresson’s work after World War II as part her assigned readings have included several of the end-of-century MoMA2000 program. authored by current Princeton faculty members. She’s now working with German photographer [[email protected]] Michael Wesely on a project documenting the new building and expansion. Nicole Silver ’96 is completing her first year at [[email protected]] Vanderbilt Law School. Prior to beginning law school she worked in the legal department of Alison Poe ’94 is writing her dissertation in the Sotheby’s in New York and London for three Department of Art History at Rutgers. She spent years. This summer she will intern in the legal 1999–2000 in Rome on a Fulbright grant doing department of the Smithsonian. research for her dissertation on a third-century [[email protected]]

 SPRING  Elliott Smith ’99 worked for curator Debra (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Art Museum Singer at the Whitney Museum, then for Italian is working on a book on the relationship be- artist Vanessa Beecroft, coordinating VB-42, a tween portraiture and historical discourse. Her News live performance involving the U.S. Navy on “Images of Identity: Italian Portrait Collections board the USS Intrepid as part of the 2000 of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries” was New African Gallery biennial. He is currently working at the Archi- published in The Image of the Individual: Por- tecture Research Office (ARO), an architecture traits in the Renaissance (British Museum Press, In October The Art Museum firm in New York City that specializes in re- 1998), and her article “Portraits and Historians” celebrated the opening of the search on process and material use. Elliott plans will appear shortly in a festschrift for John newly installed gallery of Afri- to attend architecture graduate school in the fall Shearman (Harvard University Art Museum). can art. The new installation of 2002. [[email protected]] Linda is also active in regional planning initia- allows the Museum to exhibit tives and has given papers at national and inter- Suzy Tompkins ’96 was the executive director several important works for the national conferences on the role of historians in of Habitat for Humanity in her home town of first time. Now on view is a rare urban development and land-use planning. For Laurinburg, North Carolina. During her tenure Ngbe-society emblem which several years she has been a historical consultant Habitat acquired a significant private donation served as a screen for an area to the Planning Commission of Lancaster of land and received a grant from the state of where important ritual para- County and was recently part of a team that North Carolina to build a subdivision with more phernalia was stored. Many created a cultural resources management plan for than thirty homes and a community park. She is objects from the bequest of the Lancaster-York Heritage Region. At the currently assistant to the president at the San John B. Elliott *51 are also on request of the Library of Congress, she under- Francisco Art Institute, a fine arts college that view, including a group of took documentation of Lancaster’s Central Mar- offers B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees. The Institute shields from central and eastern ket, the nation’s oldest operating public market; has two galleries and is the first fine arts college Africa, gold pieces from the her colleague Richard Kent *94 assisted with the to offer a major in digital studies. It has Akan peoples of Ghana, and photographic work. In May 2000 their work was mounted its own cutting-edge digital exhibitions virtuoso examples of headrests, officially presented to the Archives of American and contributed to digital exhibitions elsewhere, metalwork, and baskets. The Folklife of the Library of Congress, where it is including 010101 at the San Francisco Museum new installation, which included now part of the permanent collection. of Modern Art and BitStreams at the Whitney the conservation of objects, the [[email protected]] Museum of American Art. Suzy is currently gallery design, and remounting training for the San Francisco Marathon in July, Carla Antonaccio *87 has taught classical ar- the entire collection, was sup- where she’ll run to support the Leukemia and chaeology at Wesleyan University since 1988. In ported by a grant from the Lymphoma Society in their fight against blood- January of this year she began a three-year term Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. related cancers. [[email protected]] as dean of arts and humanities at Wesleyan The newly displayed objects [[email protected]] were the focus of a gallery talk, Meilin Brigitte Yeh ’91 is presently researching “Dressing Up/Bedding Down: and training in Asian painting conservation at the Andrea Bayer *91 is an assistant curator in the Personal Artifacts from Sub- Usami Shokakudo Studio and the Kyoto National Department of European Paintings at the Metro- Saharan Africa,” by Margaret Museum’s Conservation Center in Kyoto, Japan. politan Museum of Art, working on Italian Rose Vendryes *97, a visiting She has just been awarded a Research Fulbright Renaissance and Baroque painting. She was the professor in the department. grant to continue her studies. Located inside the curator of the exhibition The Still Lifes of Evaristo Kyoto National Museum, the Usami studio is one Baschenis: The Music of Silence, which was shown of only three sanctioned to work on artwork in the Lehman wing from November 2000 designated as National Treasures and Important through March 2001, and was one of the princi- Cultural Properties. As a member of this studio, pal authors of the accompanying catalogue. she has been observing and participating in the [[email protected]] conservation of significant pieces of Asian art. She Marina Belovic-Hodge *96 gave a lecture spon- will also be collaborating with Chinese conserva- ´ sored by the Njegosh Endowment at Columbia tors as a result of a recently inaugurated exchange University on the pictorial heritage of medieval program with the Beijing Palace Museum. She Serbia Sacra and its destruction. She also pre- intends to specialize in Japanese scroll mounting. sented a paper on the destruction of Serbia’s [[email protected]] artistic heritage in Kosovo at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advance- Graduates ment of Slavic Studies held in Boulder, Colorado. Linda Aleci *91 is chair of the Art Department The Yugoslav Ministries of Culture and Science at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, recently announced that her book on the history Pennsylvania, where she is associate professor of and painting of Ravanica monastery, published art history. She’s recently contributed to Cultural in Belgrade in 1999, has been named as one of Centers of the Renaissance: Milan and Lombardy continued on next page

SPRING   the ten most significant new contributions to coming articles are pieces in Art History, the the study of the culture and art of Serbia. Mitteilungen des kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, and Studies in the History of Art; his first Virginia Bower *77 taught three courses in book, Cellini and Principles of Sculpture, is forth- Asian art at Franklin and Marshall College in coming from Cambridge University Press. Next Lancaster, Pennsylvania, filling in for another year he will be the Donald and Maria Cox Post- department alum, Richard Kent *94, who was Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow at the American on leave. The chair of the art department at the Academy in Rome. [[email protected]] college is Linda Klinger Aleci *91, another De- partment of Art and Archaeology graduate alum. Laura Coyle *92 became curator of European art [[email protected]] at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in January. She already has two publications at the Corcoran: Neil A. Chassman *71 is currently engaged in “Double Entendre: David Reed’s Project for the the development of an institute for arts and Salon Doré,” which was published on the ideas in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he has Corcoran’s Web site (www.corcoran.org) in con- been lecturing and writing about his endeavor. junction with Media/Metaphor, the Corcoran’s The institute is conceived as a venue for the forty-sixth biennial exhibition; and “Connecting bringing together of enterprising thinking in the Worlds: A Selection of Contemporary European arts, individually or collectively. Theory of the Sculpture,” which appears in the catalogue of an arts will be the underpinning for publications, exhibition of sculptures and projects by artists exhibitions, and colloquia, with an emphasis on from the European Union. The exhibition the experimental. He has also been studying opened on 3 April 2001 on the Kennedy Center childhood thoughts, experiences, and percep- Terrace in Washington, D.C. Laura is also orga- tions, partially due to his continued absorption nizing two exhibitions: Turning Copper into Gold: with Proust, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway. Neil is The Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the William A. also re-examining the thinking about the arts Clark Collection, which opens in October 2001; and the interaction of personalities in Paris and, with William Jeffett, The Shape of Color: between the wars. He lives in the Blue Ridge Joan Miró’s Painted Sculpture, opening in Sep- Mountains with his wife Lana and the youngest tember 2002. She is also supervising a project of their three daughters, Molly. which will culminate in a scholarly catalogue of Gregory Clark *88 published a commentary on seventy-five of the most important European the Hours of Isabel la Católica, a luxuriously paintings in the Clark Collection at the Corcoran illustrated manuscript painted by Willem Vrelant Gallery. [[email protected]] in Bruges, Belgium, around 1455; the German Margaret D’Evelyn *94 spent most of this year edition appeared in 1997 and the English version and last studying in Cambridge, England, as an was published in 1999 by Bibliotheca Rara of associate at Clare Hall, completing her book Münster, Germany. His comprehensive mono- Venice and Vitruvius: A Prehistory of Daniele graph on another fifteenth-century Flemish Barbaro’s Commentaries, a revision of her Ph.D. manuscript illuminator, the Master of the Ghent dissertation. A grant from the Gladys Krieble Privileges, was published by Brepols of Turnhout, Delmas Foundation provided the means for three Belgium, in the spring of 2000. He is currently weeks’ work in Venice in July. Her article writing a commentary on the Spitz Hours, a “Varietà and the Caryatid Portico in Daniele Parisian codex of about 1420, for the Getty Mu- Barbaro’s Commentaries” appeared in the 1998– seum Studies on Art series. [[email protected]] 99 volume of the Annali di Architettura. During Michael Cole *99 is assistant professor at the the fall term she supervised (TA-ed) for Deborah University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Howard’s new lecture course on medieval and the 2000 CAA meeting, his 1999 article Renaissance architecture in Venice, 1300–1600; “Cellini’s Blood” was awarded the Arthur and this winter she attended Patricia Fortini Kingsley Porter Prize for the best article pub- Brown’s lively and innovative Slade Lectures on lished in The Art Bulletin by a young scholar; the Venice. [[email protected]] article was also reviewed in March 2000 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He presented Sabine Eiche *83 since 1988 has been a senior papers at the 2000 Renaissance Society of research associate at CASVA, National Gallery of America conference in Florence, at the Bard Art, but is based in Florence, working part-time Center for Graduate Studies in the Decorative on the Center’s architectural drawings project. Arts in New York, at the Johann Wolfgang She continues to research and publish in her two Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, and at the main areas of interest: the art and architecture of University of Georgia. Among Michael’s forth- the dukes of Urbino, and Italian Renaissance and

 SPRING  Baroque architectural drawings. Among her Marcy B. Freedman *81 exhibited seven ex- recent publications is an essay in Ordine et offitij amples of her work at the Denise Bibro Gallery de casa de lo illustrissimo signor duca de Urbino in Chelsea. This year she will exhibit in Los (Urbino, 1999), the transcription of a Renais- Angeles and Sacramento, California. sance court manual which was formerly in the Ruth Gais *74 taught courses library of the dukes of Urbino. In Apollo for on the ancient world at a variety November 1998 she published the long-lost of institutions, then changed project plan by Costantino de’ Servi for Henry careers and is now a rabbi. She the Prince of Wales’s palace and garden at Rich- is the director of the New York mond, Surrey, which she identified in the State Kollel, The Center for Adult Archives of Florence. Most recently, she pub- Jewish Study at Hebrew Union lished an unknown drawing by Andrea Palladio, College-Jewish Institute of which she discovered in Westminster Abbey Religion in New York City. Her Library (Apollo, June 2000). Sabine is also very husband, Paul Needham, is involved with the activities of the Accademia curator of the Scheide Library Raffaello in Urbino and of the Biblioteca Civica at Princeton. They have three of Urbania. She helped to organize the interna- children. [[email protected]] tional conference on the Della Rovere dukes of Rand Jerris *99, Madeleine Urbino held in Urbania in September 1999; the R. R. Holloway *60 continues to publish actively Viljoen *00, and Michael Cole proceedings of the conference are in press. in the fields of archaeology and numismatics. *99 at graduation 2000 [[email protected]] His recent works include “The Mutilation of Statuary in Classical Greece,” in Miscellanea J. David Farmer *81 has been director of the Mediterranea, Archaeologia Transatlantica 18, ed. Dahesh Museum of Art in New York since 1993. R. R. Holloway (Providence, 2000); “The The Dahesh is the only museum in the U.S. Parthenon Frieze Again,” Quaderni Ticinesi di devoted to nineteenth-century European aca- Numismatica e Antichità Classiche 29 (2000), demic art, with a permanent collection of about 1–20; “A Group of Argive Coins at Brown 2500 works of art (http://daheshmuseum.org). University,” in Pour Denyse: Divertissements The museum presents three major exhibitions Numismatiques, ed. S. Herter and C. Arnold- each year, one based on its own holdings and Biucchi (Bern, 2000); “Remarks on the Taranto two loan exhibitions. David originally worked in Hoard of 1911,” Revue belge de numismatique northern Renaissance, which he still enjoys, but 146 (2000); “The Classical Mediterranean, Its now specializes in art of the nineteenth century. Prehistoric Past and the Formation of Europe,” at He recently organized the exhibition A Victorian www.brown.edu/Departments/Old_World_ Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery Archaeology_and_Art/Publications (February and Museum, Bournemouth, England; it was 2000); and “Ustica: Preliminary Report on the shown at the Dahesh Museum and later traveled Excavations of the Bronze Age Site of Faraglioni, to Pittsburgh and Helsinki, Finland. Another of 1999,” with Susan S. Lukesh, at www.brown. his recent projects was the international loan edu/ Departments/Old_World_Archaeology_ exhibition Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women and_Art/Publications (February 2000). of the Acádemie Julian, which was accompanied [[email protected]] by a fully illustrated catalogue. He’s currently putting together loan exhibitions focusing on Chu Hui-liang *90 worked at the National Gérôme and Goupil (collaborating with Gerald Palace Museum and lectured at National Taiwan Ackermann *60), P.-A.-J. Dagnan-Bouveret, University in the years following her graduation. J.-J.-A. Lecomte de Nouy, and the students of Since 1995 she has been a member of the legisla- Charles Gleyre, as well as a survey of European tive Yuan of Taiwan. She is the first art historian Orientalism. David is on the adjunct faculty of to serve as a legislator, the equivalent to a senator the Pratt Institute and New York University’s in the U.S. In the new millennium she ran an museum studies program and sits on the advi- election campaign for the vice president of Taiwan. sory boards of the journal Nineteenth-Century In her role as legislator she has worked persis- Art Worldwide and Christie’s M.A. program in tently on behalf of human rights and to improve connoisseurship and the art market. He has also the educational and cultural environment in been involved in the Dahesh’s campaign to save Taiwan. She has revised and proposed the Art and acquire 2 Columbus Circle, the Edward Education Law, the Cultural Heritage Act, the Durrel Stone building that formerly housed the Cinema Law, and the Museum Law, among Huntington Hartford art gallery. others. [[email protected]]

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SPRING   Department Robert J. H. Janson-La Palme *60 *76, retired other book-length projects in the works, includ- Lecture Series chairman of art at Washington College in ing one on the historiography of the Jesuit style, Chestertown, Maryland, did most of his research the Jesuit reception of Galileo, and “The Archi- and writing on locally-relevant eighteenth-cen- tecture of Confession: St. Carlo Borromeo to Fall Term tury American art. Lately, after many trips to Freud and Beyond.” [[email protected]] Florence, he has returned to his first love: art of Hayden B. J. Maginnis *75 has recently pub- September 27, 2000 the Italian Renaissance. He acted as a session lished The World of the Early Sienese Painter (Penn- Emilio Marin chair at last year’s meeting of the Renaissance sylvania State University Press, 2001). The second Archaeological Museum, Split, Society, held in Florence. He is also writing for volume of a trilogy that began with Painting in the and University of Split the society’s Quarterly, including a forthcoming Age of Giotto (Pennsylvania State University Press, Early Christian Salona and review essay, “Painting and Sculpture for the 1997), this new volume places early Italian paint- Narona: Recent Research, Excava- Tuscan Household.” Long active in Princeton ers in the context of their society and culture; it is tions, and Discoveries in Roman alumni affairs, Robert has served on the alumni a case study of how fourteenth-century painters’ Dalmatia council of the University and is presently a careers were shaped by the city in which they October 2, 2000 member of the department’s advisory council. lived. Hayden is also the editor of Jane Satkowski, David Frisby Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski *75, who teaches in Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Documents and Early University of Glasgow the Department of Art at Queen’s University in Sources (The Georgia Museum of Art, 2000). At Old Vienna–New Vienna: Param- Kingston, Ontario, recently published, with co- present, he is the associate director of the School eters of Resistance to Modernity author H. Travers Newton Jr., Technique and of the Arts, McMaster University. October 16, 2000 Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin (Cam- [[email protected]] Richard J. Powell bridge University Press, 2000). Robert S. Mattison *85 is professor of art his- Duke University [[email protected]] tory at Lafayette College. His most recent book Sartor Africanus Martin Kramer *96 exhibited and presented a is Masterworks in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff October 25, 2000 computer installation entitled “Automatic Col- Collection: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Kostas Kotsakis lage” at the international symposium “Feedback: Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella Aristotle University, Thessaloniki Perception and Interaction in the Electronic (New York, 1995). The manuscript of his fourth, Away From Mycenae: Bronze Age Arts,” organized by the Center of Arts and Tech- book, “Breaking Boundaries: Robert Rauschenberg Societies in the Periphery of the nology at Connecticut College in March 2001. Studies,” has just been completed and sent out to Mycenaean World The installation consisted of a computer program publishers. Among his recent articles is “Frank November 9, 2000 that allowed users to interactively create digital Stella: Vortices, Turbulence, and Chaos Theory” Svetlana Alpers collages composed of image and text fragments for the exhibition Frank Stella: Imaginary Places. University of California-Berkeley, found for the most part on the Internet. The He recently returned from lecturing at the Cairo Emerita, and Visiting Research process was controlled by user input, random- Biennial. [[email protected]] Professor, Department of Fine ness, and a numerical code derived from the title Shane McCausland *00 is currently Percival Arts, NYU of the collage. His presentation addressed ques- David Visiting Scholar at the Percival David The Painter’s Museum: Velázquez tions of authorship, interaction, and meaning. Foundation of Chinese Art, University of Lon- and The Spinners Martin also had an exhibition of photographs of don, and is also visiting lecturer in the Depart- November 29, 2000 the Connecticut College Faculty Dance Concert ment of Art and Archaeology at the School of Cecil Lee Striker 2000. The exhibition, entitled “Moments in Oriental and African Studies. At the David University of Pennsylvania Movement,” ran from February 16 through March Foundation, he is organizing a three-day interna- Recovering Byzantium: Explora- 9, 2001, and is also posted at www.princeton. tional conference entitled “The ‘Admonitions’ tions at Kalenderhane in Istanbul edu/~mokramer/dc2000. Scroll: Ideals of Etiquette, Art, and Empire from [[email protected]] January 11, 2001 Early China,” a joint venture with the British Museum (18–20 June 2001; www.soas.ac.uk/ Elena Pischikova Evonne Levy *93 is assistant professor in the PDF/colloquies.html). The conference will take Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Fine Art at the University of place in conjunction with a rare exhibition of the Reliefs from the Tomb of the Vizier Toronto; she is currently up for tenure review. iconic “Admonitions” scroll, attributed to the Nespakashut in American Museums Several of her long-standing projects are reaching completion: her book Propaganda and the Jesuit early master Gu Kaizhi (about 345–406 C.E.), at Baroque is to be published by the University of the British Museum. [[email protected]] California Press, and her dissertation will be Melissa McCormick *00 defended her disserta- published by the press of the Jesuit Historical tion on “miniature” Japanese narrative handscrolls Institute in Rome. Most recently, she curated a of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries last May small exhibition of graphic works, entitled A and began teaching as the Atsumi Assistant Matter of Form: Heinrich Wölfflin’s Principles of Professor of Japanese Art at Columbia University Art History, at the Art Gallery of Ontario and in September. She was recently awarded a Getty organized a conference on “Bernini’s Biographies” Postdoctoral Fellowship and will spend the next (Toronto, December 2000). Evonne has several

 SPRING  academic year completing a book manuscript Amy Ogata *96 has been teaching at the Bard based on her dissertation and tentatively titled Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Visualities of Scale: Tosa Mitsunobu and the Arts, Design, and Culture in New York City Small-Format Handscroll in Medieval Japan. since 1998. Cambridge University Press will Melissa’s other current projects include an article publish her book Art Nouveau and the Social on warrior patronage and the pictorial canoniza- Vision of Modern Living this fall. Her current tion of the Tale of Genji, and a paper to be deliv- projects involve the theory of decoration at the ered this summer on the subject of “white turn of the century and a study of the toy com- drawing,” a genre of Japanese narrative painting pany Creative Playthings (which was based in which does not apply color pigments but uses Princeton). She and her husband, James only a monochromatic palette. This presentation Goldwasser, had a baby boy last May. will be the core of a second book-length study [[email protected]] linking the “white drawing” genre to amateur Roberta J. M. Olson *76 taught in the Art female artists at the imperial court in medieval Department at Wheaton College in Norton, Japan. [[email protected]] Massachusetts, for twenty-five years, serving as Nancy Moore *84 was until recently the super- chair for two terms and achieving the rank of visor of the editorial department of Evans New- professor. She also held two honorary chairs— ton, Inc., an educational consulting firm in the A. Howard Meneely Chair (1990–92) and Scottsdale, Arizona. She is now a grant writer at the Mary L. Heuser Chair in the Arts (1997– Evans Newton, where she is involved in re- 2000). With seminar students, she organized an searching and writing grants to fund kindergar- exhibition of drawings from Wheaton’s collection ten though twelfth-grade student achievement for the Watson Art Gallery; it was accompanied programs throughout the country. by a catalogue, The Art of Drawing: Selections [[email protected]] from the Wheaton College Collection (1997), which she edited. In late 2000 she resigned from Tina Najbjerg *97 will join the Digital Forma Wheaton College and accepted the position of Urbis Romae Project at Stanford University for associate curator of drawings in the Museum the 2001–2002 academic year as a postdoctoral Division of the New-York Historical Society, research fellow in classical archaeology. The where she had guest-curated an exhibition in project focuses on the Severan Marble Plan, a 1990. Roberta is currently addressing the rehous- fundamental but fragmentary resource for study- ing of nearly 5,000 drawings in the N-YHS’s ing the ancient city of Rome. A team from recently opened Henry Luce III Center for the Stanford’s Department of Computer Sciences Study of American Culture, is involved with has assembled high-resolution three-dimensional several exhibitions, and is organizing quarterly, scans and digital color photographs of every rotating mini-exhibitions in the Luce Center. fragment. They plan to develop computer algo- Her recent publications include The Florentine rithms that will generate matches among the Tondo (Oxford University Press, 2000) and, with fragments and reconstruct additional portions of Jay M. Pasachoff, Fire in the Sky: Comets and the map. For more on the project, see the Web Meteors. The Decisive Centuries in British Art and site www.graphics.stanford.edu/projects/ Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998; forma-urbis/. Tina will work to develop the second edition, 1999). Her book Italian Renais- database of digital photographs and 3-D models sance Sculpture, which was published by Thames as an archaeological research tool, review and and Hudson in 1992, has just been updated and synthesize bibliography on the Severan Marble will be republished shortly. During the last few Plan and Roman topography, oversee student years she has received a number of grants and work on the project, work on new fragment fellowships, including a Getty Senior Research matches generated by the Computer Sciences Grant (1994–95) and two Samuel H. Kress team, and act as a general liaison for the project. Grants (1997, 1999). The Samuel H. Kress [[email protected]] Foundation has also given an Art in Context Paul F. Norton *52 has just published Rhode grant to support an exhibition she is currently Island Stained Glass: An Historical Guide (William curating for the New-York Historical Society: Bauhan Publisher, Dublin, N.H., 2001) and is Seat of Empire, a loan exhibition which will place preparing a new edition of Amherst: A Guide to a consulate fauteuil used by Napoleon at Its Architecture. He also had a successful tennis Malmaison in its historical context. season, winning three tournaments and reaching Steven F. Ostrow *87 is associate professor of art the finals in his age group (80s) in two others. history at the University of California, Riverside, [[email protected]] continued on next page

SPRING   Department where he served as chair for six years. His recent Swiss national television. Her other publications Lecture Series publications include Art and Spirituality in include an introductory essay in Karl Blossfeldt: Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Arbeitscollagen/Working Collages (Schirmer/Mosel Spring Term Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore (Cam- and MIT Press, 2000) and an essay on Blossfeldt’s bridge, 1996), which was supported by a grant bronze sculptures which will appear in the cata- from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and will logue of the exhibition A Natural History of February 8, 2001 appear in an Italian edition later this year. He Architecture: Herzog and de Meuron on the Bound- Renata Holod also contributed to and co-edited Dosso’s Fate: aries of Art (CCA Montreal, 2002). University of Pennsylvania Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy [[email protected]] Landscape and Ideaology: Looking (Getty Research Institute, 1998) and wrote a for Medieval Jerba Shelley Rice *76 curated, with Lynn Gumpert, number of essays for La Basilica di San Pietro in an exhibition titled Inverted Odysseys: Claude February 23, 2001 Vaticano (Modena, 2000). His articles have Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman, which was Michael North appeared in The Art Bulletin (1996), Storia shown at the Grey Art Gallery in New York and Ernst Moritz University, dell’arte (1998), and Art History (forthcoming). later traveled to Miami. The International Asso- Greifswald, Germany His current project is a book-length study of the ciation of Critics of Art, American Section, From Luxury Collecting to Mass art, theory, and biographies of Gianlorenzo selected it as the best photography exhibition of Collecting Bernini, for which he has received the NEH 1999–2000. She also edited the book that ac- Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art March 8, 2001 companied the show, which was published by from the American Academy in Rome for 2001– Maria Georgopoulou MIT Press. Her earlier book Parisian Views, also 2002. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, an Yale University published by MIT Press, has been reissued in art programs consultant, and their five-year-old Imaging the Colonial Space: The paperback. In the spring of 1999 Shelley was on daughter. [[email protected]] Piazza San Marco in Venice and sabbatical in Istanbul, teaching at Bosphorus the Levant Nassos Papalexandrou *98 spent the last two University and helping to start a media center March 12, 2001 years as a visiting assistant professor in the De- that will be linked with public television in an Helen Philon partment of Classical Studies at the University of effort to improve public communications and Independant Scholar Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has just accepted a the quality of mass media in Turkey. She was The Earliest Surviving Paintings tenure-track position at the University of Texas recently in Australia, where she lectured at the from the Islamic Period in India: in Austin. He’s currently revising his dissertation Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Tomb of the Ahmad Shah in for publication and has been awarded a post- [[email protected]] Bidar doctoral fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Demetrius U. Schilardi *77 taught art and Studies in Washington, D.C., for the academic March 29, 2001 archaeology at the Universities of Ottawa, Lecce year 2001–2002. The last few summers he par- Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Italy), and Tor Vergata (Rome). In 1995 he ticipated in the Princeton-Cyprus Archaeological Harvard University joined the Greek Archaeological Service and has Expedition at Polis, Cyprus, with his wife, Amy Fragonard’s Seduction: Eros and since supervised numerous digs in northern *98, and their daughter Christina. Modernity Athens. He has been particularly busy with exca- April 9, 2001 Véronique Plesch *94 was awarded tenure at vations and preservation work necessitated by Alexei Lidov Colby College in Waterville, Maine, last Decem- construction for the Olympic Games of 2004. Center for Eastern European ber. [[email protected]] He recently supervised the moving of the largest Culture, Moscow Ulrike Meyer Stump *96 has been teaching ancient structure ever moved in Greece—a huge Miraculous Icons and Cultural courses on the history of photography at the cistern—and has unearthed a number of ancient Identity in Byzantium and Russia University of Zürich. She presented a paper on tombs, roads, and large wells. At Kephissia, his staff brought to light two important Classical April 24, 2001 the reception of the plant photographs of Ger- cemeteries and the remains of what is probably a Matthew Simms man photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) Geometric cemetery. Demetrius is also president Emory University in the late 1920s at the third Swiss Graduate of the Paros and Cyclades Institute of Archaeol- Seeing Cézanne: Vision, Move- Student Symposium (Nachwuchskolloquium für ogy, which has offices, library, and study facilities ment, and Painting Kunstgeschichte in der Schweiz). The paper will be published in the Georges-Bloch-Jahrbuch. She in the capital of Paros. The institute publishes also spoke on the reception of Blossfeldt today at scholarly and guide books on the Cyclades and a conference at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin the Aegean, and has begun the conversion of a and the Fotomuseum in Winterthur. This will group of nineteenth-century buildings at Marathi be published as “Natur im Raster: Blossfeldt- into a cultural center with museum, library, and Rezeption heute,” in Konstruktionen der Natur lecture hall. The PCIA is privately supported and (Verlag der Kunst, 2001). Ulrike participated in is in need of book donations. Demetrius’s excava- a panel discussion with photographer Robert tions on Paros began in 1974, and for the last Frank and Swiss photography and film historians five years he and seven assistants have been at the Kunsthaus in Zürich, and has even com- preparing the final publication of finds from mented on Blossfeldt on the evening news on Koukounaries. He is also heading the efforts to

 SPRING  investigate and preserve the ancient marble Walters and a $24 million renovation of their quarries of Paros, which are associated with the Centre Street building. In 1999 he was ap- emergence of sculpture in the Aegean. In 1997 pointed to the President’s Cultural Property his group organized the First International Con- Advisory Committee, and this January he was ference on the Archaeology of Paros and the knighted in France, receiving the Order of the Cyclades. The proceedings of the conference will Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. Gary serves on the be published shortly, and the dates of the second board of directors of the Association of Art conference, dedicated to Archilochos of Paros Museum Directors. He recently hired Eik Kahng and his age, will be announced in the near fu- ’85 as associate curator of nineteenth-century ture. Schilardi is also involved in the campaign painting. [[email protected]] to protect the battlefield of Marathon from Robert Weir *98 has been awarded a three-year modern development. research grant from the Social Sciences and [[email protected]] Humanities Research Council of Canada Charles Scribner III ’73 *75 *77 has a freshman (SSHRCC), the only source of public money for son now at Princeton, also a Charlie (the sixth in humanities research in Canada. His research will a row to attend—perhaps a family record for center on the study of the coins found in the redundancy), and he now aspires to become a Canadian excavations at the Greek sites Pietro Bernini. Stymphalos and Mytilene, and he will attempt to [[email protected]] write the respective histories of the two cities from an economic point of view. His disserta- Andrew Shanken *99 is teaching architectural tion, “Roman Delphi and Its Pythian Games,” history in the Department of Art at Oberlin has been accepted for publication by British College. [[email protected]] Archaeological Reports of Oxford, and his article Alan Shapiro *77 was recently named W. H. on the Herakles frieze at Delphi appeared in the Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique for 1999. Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins Uni- He and his wife Mary Grace *96 have a daugh- versity. [[email protected]] ter, Elissa, now almost 14 months old. Harry Titus *84 will be in France this summer Jay Xu *93 is Foster Foundation Curator of conducting preliminary excavations in the crypt Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum and was and nave at Auxerre Cathedral. In 1997 his team recently named the Seattle Art Museum’s 2001– carried out radar and electrostatic surveys in the 2002 Patterson Sims Fellow. He has designed a cathedral, looking for evidence of structures year-long celebration of Chinese art and culture beneath the existing building; the results are which will be inaugurated by the Seattle showing scheduled to be published in Gesta this year. of The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from Based on those findings, his group will be the John B. Elliott Collection, an exhibition orga- searching for remains of a Romanesque facade nized by The Art Museum at Princeton. A sym- and for eleventh-century entrances into the posium, “Writing Culture: A Symposium on crypt in areas that were “restored” by Viollet-le- Chinese Calligraphy,” will bring together leading Duc. He has also applied for a grant to work scholars in the field of Chinese calligraphy, with with the French surveying firm Progeo on a Professor Emeritus Wen Fong presenting the photogrammetric map of the cathedral’s vaults. keynote address. Jay has also curated a major These projects should be underway in later June loan exhibition of ancient artifacts from Sichuan through early July. [[email protected]] province, Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan, which will be Barbara Tsakirgis *84 is associate professor of on view from May 10 through August 12, 2001. classics and archaeology at Vanderbilt University. A 400-page, heavily illustrated catalogue will She was recently elected an academic trustee of accompany the exhibition, which will travel to the American Institute of Archaeology, and she the Kimbell Art Museum and The Metropolitan spent the academic year 2000–2001 in Athens as Museum of Art. A two-day international sympo- Kress Agora Fellow, working on the final publi- sium is being planned for August 3–4, cation of the Agora houses. She is married to 2001; Jay will be one of the speakers. Jerry Spinrad *82 (Computer Science); they A second exhibition organized by Jay, have two daughters. Harmonizing with the Infinite: Seattle [[email protected]] Collects Chinese Art, opening on July Gary Vikan *76 has been director of the Walters 5, 2001, will display the finest ex- Art Museum in Baltimore since 1994. He recently amples of Chinese painting and callig- concluded a $36 million capital campaign at the raphy from Seattle area collections.

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