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PrincetonUniversity DEPARTMENT OF Art Archaeology & Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues: SPRING We have had a busy year! On great figure of the department, Wen Fong, was Inside honored with a two-day symposium arranged by the faculty front we welcomed our the very active Tang Center. new Americanist, Rachael DeLue, There is news on other fronts, too. This is a FACULTY NEWS who came to us from the University self-study year—our first in over a decade—which has already prompted several adjustments to the of Illinois. Her task is a formidable undergraduate curriculum. Our introductory VISUAL ARTS FACULTY one—to replace the irreplaceable course will now be two—Art 100, from antiquity through the medieval period, and Art 101, from John Wilmerding, who retires in the Renaissance to contemporary art—but it will GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS spring 2007—but she has already remain team-taught. We will present a wide array displayed her great capabilities. of freshman and sophomore seminars to attract even more majors, and these new concentrators will UNDERGRADUATE NEWS This fall we will welcome our new medievalist, encounter a refashioned junior seminar on art-his- Nino Zchomelidse, who arrives from the Univer- torical methodology, with the option of a seminar sity of Tübingen, and we will also conduct a search focused on archaeological interpretation. The PUBLICATIONS in Japanese art, as Yoshiaki Shimizu has announced Senior Comprehensive exams will now be tailored his retirement as of spring 2009. This search will to the specific curricu- be followed by one in lum of each major. Northern Renaissance CONFERENCES Other proposals, art, so our lively pace too numerous to note will continue. here, are in the air. Our strong mod- EXCAVATIONS Given the increase in ern faculty was further our majors—with 34 in strengthened by the the Class of 2007, we joint appointment of INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART have witnessed a 50 Brigid Doherty of the percent increase—and German department, in the undergraduate as well as by the arrival MARQUAND LIBRARY body at large, we hope of Yve-Alain Bois, for- to convince Nassau mer chair at Harvard, Hall of our need to as professor of art history at the Institute for VISUAL RESOURCES COLLECTION expand our offerings to represent the histories of Advanced Study. We also welcomed distinguished art, architecture, and archaeology more extensively. guests this year, including Walter Liedtke, curator High on our wish list will likely be a new position of Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Met, who, TANG CENTER in African and/or Indian art. Clearly we cannot be as our Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor, offered comprehensive; rather, our strategy is to grow in a popular seminar on Rembrandt; Anthony Snod- ways that not only open new fields for Princeton grass, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology NEWS FROM ALUMNI but also bridge fields already well established in the at Cambridge, who gave the Haley Lecture; and department and elsewhere on campus. Stay tuned! Robert Nelson of Yale, who presented the inaugu- Hal Foster, chair ral Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture. Another ART MUSEUM NEWS Faculty News Patricia Fortini Brown’s final semester as chair last ‘Boundaries’ of the Uncontainable in Byzantine spring was highlighted by a course taught in the Church Iconography” at the conference “Idea and Princeton University Art Museum in which the stu- Image: Principles and Methods in the Study of dents wrote wall labels and a gallery guide for the Art of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine World” early Renaissance gallery. The term was also marked held in Moscow. In December, at the invitation of by lectures for Save Venice in New York and Bos- the director-general of UNESCO, he took part in ton, as well as in Philadelphia to the America-Italy the first meeting of the Experts Committee on the Society, and by participation in the annual meetings Rehabilitation and Safeguarding of Cultural Heri- of the Renaissance Society of America at Cam- tage in Kosovo, which was held in Paris. In January bridge University and the College Art Association in Ćr u čić gave a day-long seminar at the University of Atlanta. Now on sabbatical, she has completed an Fribourg, Switzerland, and was also guest speaker at encyclopedia entry on the classical tradition in Ven- the University of Pennsylvania, where he lectured ice for The Classical Tradition, edited by Anthony on “Belfries in Byzantine Church Architecture and Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis (Harvard in Modern Historiography.” On campus he gave a University Press, forthcoming), and a long article lecture under the auspices of the Program in Hel- on the trade in antiquities between Italy and the rest lenic Studies titled “Divine Light: Symbol and of Europe for a volume on Italy and the European Matter in Byzantine Art and Architecture.” rĆu čić’s economy in the Renaissance, to be published by an publications during 2005–06 include “Unobserved Italian press. Contributions of Hilandar to the Development of Brown also gave a paper in a conference on Serbian Medieval Architecture” in Cetvrta kazivanja Venetian nautical history at MIT in December and o Svetoj Gori (The Holy Mountain: Thoughts and delivered the Hiden Lecture at the Birmingham Studies 4) for 2005, and “‘Renewed from the Very Museum of Art in January 2006. In March she Foundations’: The Question of the Genesis of the gave a lecture titled “Versions of the East: Creat- Bogorodica Ljeviska in Prizren,” in Archaeology in Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, ing Imagined Environments” at the Isabella Stewart Architecture: Studies in Honor of Cecil L. Striker, Franz Anton Maulbertsch: Painterly Gardner Museum, in connection with an exhibi- edited by Judson J. Emerick and Deborah M. Deli- Enlightenment (1724–1796) tion on Gentile Bellini and the East. This spring yannis (von Zabern, 2005). she also began a new project on the artistic and cul- Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann has published Franz tural geography of the Venetian Empire with three Anton Maulbertsch: Painterly Enlightenment (1724– weeks of archival research in Venice and Udine 1796) (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), in February and a month-long trip to Greece and the first comprehensive English-language study of Crete in May. An exhibition, “The Renaissance at this long-neglected Austrian fresco painter known Home: Art and Life in the Italian House, 1400– for his masterful use of color. With Elizabeth Pilliod 1600,” on which she has been working for several he coedited Time and Place: The Geohistory of Art years, is scheduled to open at the Victoria & Albert (Ashgate Press, 2005), a collection of essays that pro- Museum in London in October 2006. poses a return to the approach of artistic geography. Slobodan Ćurčić completed the manuscript of his His other recent publications include “Vredeman de book, Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Vries: State of Study, and Suggestions for Research” Süleyman the Magnificent (ca. 300–ca. 1550), which in Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Folgen, edited has been accepted for publication by Yale Univer- by Heiner Borggrefe (Jonas Verlag, 2005); “Maul- sity Press, London. He remains active in planning bertsch in Moravia” in Maulbertsch in Dyje, edited the exhibition “Architecture as Icon,” co-organized by Z. Wörgötter et al. (Brno, 2005); and “The Dat- by the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessalon- ing of Arcimboldos’s First Composite Heads” in iki and the Princeton University Art Museum. Last Studia Rudolphina 5 (2005). Among his forthcom- Time and Place: The Geohistory year he gave the Alan and Leonarda Laing Memo- ing articles are “Cultural Transfer and Arts in the of Art, coedited by Thomas rial Lecture at the School of Architecture, University Americas” in The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South DaCosta Kaufmann of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on “Accessing the American Paintings 1600–1825 from the Thoma Holy in Early Byzantine Constantinople,” and pre- Collection, edited by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt (Stan- sented a paper titled “Image and Substance: The ford University Press and Skira); “Arcimboldo and Meaning of the Medium” at the international the Elector of Saxony” in Kulturtransfer mit dem conference held in Athens, Georgia. During the Glaubensfeind (Bibliotheca Hertziana); and “Franz summer he participated in the Princeton University Anton Maulbertsch and the Debate over Coloring workshop at the Monastery of St. John Prodro- in the Later Eighteenth Century” in the Bulletin of mos, near Serres in northern Greece. In October he the Moravian Gallery (Brno). delivered a paper titled “Stylite Saints and Ambos: 2 S P R I N G John Blazejewski Department faculty. Seated, left to right: Patricia Fortini Brown, Robert Bagley, Hal Foster, Thomas Leisten, William Childs; standing, left to right: Yoshiaki Shimizu, Slobodan Ćurčić, Rachael DeLue, Brigid Doherty, John Wilmerding, T. Leslie Shear Jr., Anne McCauley, Carol Armstrong, Jerome Silbergeld, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Hugo Meyer (not pictured: Al Acres, Esther da Costa Meyer, John Pinto, Alastair Wright) In 2005 he presented papers at conferences Thomas Leisten directs the department’s excava- organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome tions of the Umayyad site of Bā lis in Syria. Last and the Moravska Galerie in Brno, Czech Repub- year he also did research in the United Arab Emir- lic, gave the Oskar Halecki Lecture in Leipzig, ates and Iran. Leisten was recently appointed to the Germany, and spoke at the International Congress visiting committee of the Department of Islamic of Historians in Sydney, Australia. Kaufmann also Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New gave lectures at Tsingua University in Beijing, the York, and he is on the Board of Trustees for Cul- University of Sydney, Australia, Florida State Uni- ture and Museums of the State of Qatar. During the versity, the Bard College Graduate Program, the academic year 2006–07 he will serve as academic Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the director of the Berlin Consortium for German University of Southern California, and the Met- Studies in Berlin.

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