Center 24 Center National Gallery of Art Arts Center for Advanced Study in the Visual center 24 National Gallery of Art, Washington Center 24 1 2 National Gallery of Art center for advanced study in the visual arts Center 24 Record of Activities and Research Reports June 2003–May 2004 Washington 2004 3 National Gallery of Art center for advanced study in the visual arts Washington, D.C. Mailing address: 2000b South Club Drive, Landover, Maryland 20785 Telephone: (202) 842-6480 Fax: (202) 842-6733 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nga.gov/resources/casva.htm Copyright © 2004 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copy- right Law, and except by reviewers from the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Produced by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Pub- lishing Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington Editor in Chief, Judy Metro Editor, Carol Eron Production Manager, Chris Vogel CASVA Project Manager for Center Reports, Karen Binswanger Editorial Assistant, Caroline Weaver Designed by Patricia Inglis, typeset in Sabon by CSI, Falls Church, Virginia, and printed on Lustro Dull by Schneidereith & Sons, Baltimore, Maryland. Cover: Design study for the East Building (detail), I. M. Pei & Partners, National Gallery of Art East Building Design Team, 1 October 1968. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gallery Archives Half-title page: I. M. Pei, early conceptual sketch for the profile of the East Building, with the Capitol, fall 1968. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gallery Archives Frontispiece: Fellows’ tour of the exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya with curator Mary Miller 4 Contents 6 Preface 7 Report on the Academic Year, June 2003–May 2004 8 Board of Advisors and Special Selection Committees 9 Staff 11 Report of the Dean 15 Members 24 Meetings 39 Lectures 42 Incontro 44 Research Projects 48 Publications 49 Research Reports of Members 187 Description of Programs 189 Fields of Inquiry 189 Professors in Residence 190 Fellowship Program 197 Facilities 198 Board of Advisors and Special Selection Committees 198 Program of Meetings, Research, and Publications 205 Index of Members’ Research Reports, 2003–2004 5 Preface The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a research insti- tute that fosters study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, and urbanism, from prehistoric times to the present, was founded in 1979 as part of the National Gallery of Art. The Center encourages a variety of approaches by historians, critics, and theorists of art, as well as by scholars in related disci- plines of the humanities and social sciences. The resident community of scholars consists of the Samuel H. Kress Professor, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, and approximately twenty fellows at any one time, including Senior Fellows, Visiting Senior Fellows, Research Associates, Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellows, and Predoctoral Fellows. In addition, the Cen- ter supports approximately twelve Predoctoral and Visiting Senior Fellows who are conducting research both in the United States and abroad. The programs of the Center for Advanced Study include fel- lowships, meetings, research, and publications. 6 Report on the Academic Year June 2003–May 2004 Board of Advisors T. J. Clark Innis Shoemaker, chair September 2002–August 2005 September 2001–August 2004 University of California, Berkeley Philip Sohm Cynthia Hahn September 2001–August 2004 September 2002–August 2005 University of Toronto Florida State University Curatorial Liaison Michael Leja September 2001–August 2004 Peter Parshall University of Delaware September 2002–August 2005 Curator of Old Master Prints Mary Miller National Gallery of Art September 2003–August 2006 Yale University Margaret Cool Root September 2002–August 2005 University of Michigan Special Selection Committees Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral The Starr Foundation Visiting Fellowship for Historians of Senior Research Fellowship American Art to Travel Abroad for Scholars from East and South Asia Timothy Barringer Yale University Wu Hung The University of Chicago David Lubin Wake Forest University John Rosenfield Harvard University (emeritus) John Wilmerding Princeton University Joanna Williams University of California, Berkeley The Samuel H. Kress and J. Paul Getty Trust Paired Fellowships for Research in Conservation and the History of Art and Archaeology Maryan Ainsworth The Metropolitan Museum of Art Marjorie B. Cohn Harvard University Art Museums Joseph E. Fronek Los Angeles County Museum of Art Heather Lechtman Massachusetts Institute of Technology 8 Staff Elizabeth Cropper, Dean Therese O’Malley, Associate Dean Peter M. Lukehart, Associate Dean Helen Tangires, Center Administrator Senior Research Associate Nicole Anselona Sabine Eiche Administrative Assistant Francine Chip Research Associates (until November 2003) Frances Gage Research Kristina Giasi Marina Galvani (from January 2004) Robert La France Research Elizabeth Pergam Laura Kinneberg Eike D. Schmidt Research Lynn Shevory Program Assistants Meetings Colleen Harris Fellowships Project Staff Elizabeth Kielpinski Karen Binswanger Regular Meetings Project Manager for Center Reports Kimberly Rodeffer Special Meetings and Publications 9 Report of the Dean June 2003–May 2004 In its twenty-fourth year the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art continued to support the study of the visual arts in each of its four major program areas: fellow- ships, research, publications, and scholarly meetings. The Center welcomed resident fellows to the National Gallery of Art from eleven countries in the course of the past year. Recently our visitors from abroad have sometimes found the process of applying to enter the United States time-consuming but, fortunately, not impos- sible. Approaching its quarter centenary, the Center reaffirms a com- mitment to international scholarship at the highest level, and to the production of knowledge and understanding through the free exchange of ideas. A number of this year’s scholars dedicated their research to the art and architecture of the Americas, as well as to Dutch, Italian, and French painting. Others worked on topics rang- ing from sixth-century Buddhist art patronage to ancient Mesopo- tamian and Persian palace decoration, from poetic treatments of ancient Roman sculpture to the role of water in the urban develop- I. M. Pei and Barry ment of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome, from the expan- Bergdoll, reception sion of Italian Franciscan churches as burial sites to the Stalinization for “The East Build- ing in Perspective: A of Soviet architecture. As always, those fellows working on subjects Twenty-Fifth Anni- outside the National Gallery’s areas of concentration found in versary Symposium,” 30 April–1 May Washington, and especially at the Library of Congress, the Sackler 2004 and Freer galleries, the Archives of American Art, and the National 11 Archives, unparalleled resources for their research. Visits to the Gallery’s collections, exhibitions, and conservation department, as well as to Washington landmarks, old and new, provided informal extensions of our program. The Center is engaged in a series of long-term research projects intended to provide primary research materials and tools for the field. The five projects currently under way are described in detail below. In the program of publications, two volumes appeared in the course of the year in the symposium series of Studies in the History of Art. The first was Large Bronzes in the Renaissance (2003), edited by Peta Motture, which is the fifth, and concluding, volume in a spe- cial group devoted to Renaissance sculpture of all kinds and media. Tilman Riemenschneider, c. 1460–1531 (2004), edited by Julien Cha- puis, records the proceedings of a symposium held in 1999, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Gallery devoted to the artist’s work. The Center also coproduced, with the Association of Research Insti- tutes in Art History (ARIAH), Art History in Latin America: Reports of the Latin American Fellowship Program, 1994–2000, a record (with abstracts in Spanish and Portuguese) of a special fellowship initiative undertaken by ARIAH under the leadership of Therese O’Malley, chair of the association during those years. The Center held several symposia in the program of special meet- ings. “Romare Bearden, American Modernist” was organized in con- junction with the National Gallery’s historic Bearden exhibition. The papers will be published in the Studies in the History of Art series, with Ruth Fine, curator of the exhibition, and Jacqueline Francis of the University of Michigan serving as scholarly editors. “French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century” coincided with the National Gallery’s exhibition The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, and attracted a wide inter- national audience. Philip Conisbee, curator of the exhibition, will serve as scholarly editor of the symposium papers. In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of National Gallery’s East Building, designed by I. M. Pei, the Center organized “The East Build- ing in Perspective,” the papers of which will also be published in Studies in the History of Art, with Anthony Alofsin, University of Texas at Austin, serving as scholarly editor. In the course of the year 12 I. M. Pei was awarded the American Institute of Architects’ Twenty- Five Year Award for the East Building, and the Center for Advanced Study was honored by his presence at the symposium. In addition, the Center co-sponsored with the University of Maryland the annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art. With the support of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, the Center initiated a new lecture program this year. Every other year a distinguished Wyeth Lecturer will be invited to the Center, with a one-day conference on American art being convened in the inter- vening years.