Professor Emeritus History of Art School Of

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IRVING LAVIN

Professor Emeritus History of Art School of Historical Studies Institute for Advanced Study [email protected]

Curriculum Vitae Education: St. Louis Public Schools B. A. Washington University, St. Louis, 1945-48 Major Field: Philosophy Cambridge University, England, 1948-9 Special study with Bertrand Russell: Logic and History of Philosophy M. A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1951 Thesis: The Sources of Donatello's Pulpits in San Lorenzo M. A. Harvard University, 1952 Ph. D. Harvard University, 1955 Dissertation: The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini

Fellowships and Grants: Schweig Scholarship, Study in England 1948-49 Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow, Brussels, Summer, 1949 Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, 1953-54 Dumbarton Oaks Senior Research Fellow, 1957-59 Senior Fulbright Scholar, Italy, 1961-63 American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Fellowship, 1965-66 Guggenheim Fellow, 1968-69

Honors and Awards: Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, College Art Association of America, awarded 1959, 1962, 1968 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, 1978 Tercentennial medal commemorating the death of Gianlorenzo Bernini, City of Rome, 1980 Honorary citizen of the city of Montevarchi, commemorating the quadricentennial of the birth of Francesco Mochi, 1980 Sescentennial medal commemorating the birth of Donatello, L’Accadmia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence, 1986 Premio Daria Borghese, Rome, 1981 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Socio Straniero, 1986 Accademia Clementina, Bologna, Accademico d'Onore, 1986 Premio "Cultori di Roma," City of Rome and Istituto di Studi Romani, 1987 Premio Internazionale “Galileo Galilei,” University of Pisa, 2005 Dedicatee: Bernini Giovanissimo al Roma Barocca, Colloquium, San Giovanni dei Fiorentino, Rome, 2014 Honorary Member, Advisory Board, Galleria Borghese, Rome, 2016; Dedicatee: Bernini, Exhibition, Galleria Borghese, Rome, 2017-18

Learned Societies: Association internationale pour l'étude des mosäiques antiques College Art Association of America Renaissance Society of America Society of Architectural Historians Verein zur Förderung des kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance

Academic Positions: New York University, Washington Square College, 1957-59 Vassar College, 1959-61 New York University, 1963-73; Institute of Fine Arts, 1967-73 Institute for Advanced Study, 1973-2002 (Emeritus)

Special Lectureships: Charles T. Mathews Lectures, Columbia University, 1957 Franklin Jasper Walls Lectures, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1975 Collège de France, 1984, 1990 Slade Lectures, Oxford University, 1985 Jerome Lectures, University of Michigan and American Academy in Rome, 1985-86 Una's Lectures in the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, 1987 Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2004 Professional Service: Board of Directors, Society of Architectural Historians, 1967-70 Visiting Committee, Department of Art and Archaeology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1969-73 Originator, Founding Member and Secretary, Advisory Committee, Corpus des mosaïques de Tunisie, 4 vols. in 9, Institut national d'archéologie et d'arts, Tunis, 1973-1999 Liaison Officer, Society of Architectural Historians/ College Art Association, 1970-71 Board of Scholars, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, 1972-75 Advisory Committee, Iconographical Lexicon of Classical Mythology, 1973-75 Committee on Renaissance Studies, Princeton University 1974-1998 Advisory Council, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1974-1984 Advisory Committee, Schweizerishes Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zürich, 1974-2001 Advisory Board, The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1974-76 National Committee for the History of Art, 1975-2001; Chairman 1983-98 Comité Vice-Presidentinternational d'histoire, 1982-86; de President, l'art, 1975-2001 1986-89 Advisory Council (Representative for the Visual Arts), Renaissance Society of America, 1976-79 Italian Emergency Relief Committee: Friuli Arts and Monuments, 1976-85 Millard Meiss Publication Fund Committee, College Art Association of America, 1976-83 Visiting Committee, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University, 1977-8 Founding Advisory Board, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1979-84 Advisory Committee, The Seventeenth Century Society, Inc., 1980-84 Advisory Board, Dante Society of America, 1980-86 Editorial Board, Quaderni d'italianistica, 1980- Editorial Board, History of European Ideas, 1981- Founding Advisory Committee, The J. Paul Getty Trust and Research Center, 1981-91 International Research and Exchanges Board (I.R.E.X.), ACLS/Poland, Academy of Sciences Committee, 1982-4 Founding Advisory Committee, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1983-86 Board of Trustees, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1986-96 Scientific Committee, Art e Dossier, 1986- Editorial Board, Palladio, rivista di storia dell' architettura e restauro, 1988- Board of Directors, College Art Association of America, 1976-80, 1993-97 Comitato scientifico, “Modena Capitale,” 1996-2000 Member, Comitato Nazionale per il V Centenario della Fondazione della Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, 2007- Member, Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del Centenario della Nascita di Giulio Carlo Argan (1909-1992), 2008- Member, Committee for a Complete Corpus of the Sculpture of Gianlorenzo Bernini, 2016-

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