Christopher M.S. JOHNS Department of History of Art Box 274 GPC 230 Appleton Place Nashville, Tennessee 37203 615-322-2831 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., in art history, University of Delaware, 1985
Thesis title: "The Art Patronage of Pope Clement XI Albani and the Early Christian Revival in Eighteenth-Century Rome" Adviser: Barbara Maria Stafford
M.A., in art history, University of Delaware, 1980
Thesis title: "Thomas Sully and the Theatrical Portrait: 'George Frederick Cooke as Richard III'" Adviser: Wayne Craven
B.A., in art history and history, summa cum laude, Florida State University, 1977
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art, Vanderbilt University, 2003-
Professor of Art History, University of Virginia, 1999-2003
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Virginia, 1992-1999
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Virginia, 1985-1992
SAMPLE COURSES
Neoclassicism and Romanticism Eighteenth-Century Art Art at the Court of Louis XV Canova and the Origins of Modern Sculpture British Painting and Sculpture, 1485-1901 The Rococo Napoleon and the Arts Nineteenth-Century Art Revolutionary and Napoleonic Visual Culture
PUBLICATIONS
Books
China and the Church: Chinoiserie in Global Context. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016).
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality (anthology co- edited with Rebecca Messbarger and Philip Gavitt). (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016).
The Visual Culture of Catholic Enlightenment. (University Park and London: Penn State University Press, 2014).
Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
(Finalist, Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association of America)
Papal Art and Cultural Politics: Rome in the Age of Clement XI. (Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993).
“The Color Yellow: Qing Imperial Chromatics and the Origins of Western Perceptions of East Asian Difference” (in progress).
Exhibition Catalogue Essay
"The Entrepôt of Europe: Rome in the Eighteenth Century," in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Joseph J. Rishel and Edgar Peters Bowron. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Philadelphia and London: Merrell Holberton, 2000), pp. 17-46.
Articles and Anthology Contributions
“Chinoiserie in Piedmont: An International Language of Diplomacy and Modernity,” in ed. Karin E. Wolfe and Paola Bianchi, Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press and the British School at Rome (in press; fall 2016).
“Introduction: The Scholar’s Pope: Benedict XIV and Catholic Enlightenment,” in ed. Rebecca Messbarger, Philip Gavitt, and Christopher M. S. Johns, Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), pp. 3-14.
“Caffeine Culture and Papal Diplomacy: Benedict XIV’s ‘Caffeaus’ in the Quirinal Gardens,” in ed. Rebecca Messbarger, Philip Gavitt, and Christopher M. S. Johns, Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science and Spirituality (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016). pp. 367-387.
“Erotic Spirituality and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris: The Curious History of Antonio Canova’s ‘Penitent Magdalene’,’’ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 42 (2013): 1-20.
“Visual Culture and the Triumph of Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Rome,” in ed. David Marshall, Karin E. Wolfe, and Sue Russell, in Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome (London and Rome: The British School at Rome, 2011), pp. 13-21.
"Travel and Cultural Exchange in Enlightenment Rome," in ed. Mary D. Sheriff, Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010): 73-96.
“The ‘Good Bishop’ of Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Gifts to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Bologna,” The Court Historian 14 (2009): 149-160.
"Gender and Genre in the Religious Art of the Catholic Enlightenment," in ed. Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, and Catherine Sama, Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. 331-45; 451-55.
“Exhibition Review: Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome,” Burlington Magazine 150 (April 2008): 269-270.
"The Roman Experience of Jacques-Louis David, 1775-1780,” in ed. Dorothy Johnson, Jacques-Louis David: New Perspectives (Newark, Delaware and London: University of Delaware Press, 2006), pp. 58-70.
“Papa Albani and Francesco Bianchini: Intellectual and Visual Culture in Early Eighteenth- Century Rome,” in ed. Valentin Kockel and Brigitte Sölch, Francesco Bianchini (1662- 1729) und die europäische gelehrte Welt um 1700, Colloquia Augustana, v. 21 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005), pp. 41-55.
"Portraiture and the Making of National Identity: Pompeo Batoni's 'The Honourable Colonel William Gordon’ (1765-66) in Italy and North Britain," Art History 27 (2004): 382-411.
"The Empress Josephine's Collection of Sculpture by Antonio Canova at Malmaison," Journal of the History of Collections 16 (2004): 19-33.
"'An Ornament of Italy and the Premier Female Painter of Europe': Rosalba Carriera and the Roman Academy," in ed. Melissa Hyde and Jennifer Milam, Women, Art, and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe (London: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 20-45.
“Proslavery Rhetoric and Classical Authority: Antonio Canova’s ‘George Washington’,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 47 (2003): 119-150.
"The Conceptualization of Form and the Modern Sculptural Masterpiece: Canova's Drawings for 'Venus Italica'," Master Drawings 41 (2003): 128-139.
"Ecclesiastical Politics and Papal Tombs: Antonio Canova's Monuments to Clement XIV and Clement XIII," The Sculpture Journal 2 (1998): 58-71.
"'That Amiable Object of Adoration': Pompeo Batoni and the Sacred Heart," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 132 (1998): 19-28.
"Subversion through Historical Association: Canova's ‘Madame Mère’ and the Politics of Napoleonic Portraiture," Word & Image 13 (1997): 43-57.
"Venetian Eighteenth-Century Art and the Status Quo," review of the exhibition 'The Glory of Venice'," Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Eighteenth-Century Studies 28 (1995): 427-428.
"Portrait Mythology: Antonio Canova's Representations of the Bonapartes," Eighteenth- Century Studies 28 (1994): 115-129.
"Art and Science in Eighteenth-Century Bologna: Donato Creti's Astronomical Landscape Paintings," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 55 (1992): 578-589.
"Re-framing Art History: Text and Context," Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1992): 517- 522.
"French Connections to Papal Art and Politics in the Rome of Clement XI, 1700-1721," Storia dell'Arte 67 (1990): 279-285.
"Illuminations of S. Maria Maggiore in the Early Settecento," (with Steven F. Ostrow) Burlington Magazine 123 (1990): 528-534.
"Antonio Canova and Austrian Art Policy," in ed. Kinley Brauer and William E. Wright, Austria in the Age of the French Revolution, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990), pp. 83-90.
"Antonio Canova's 'Napoleon as Mars': Nudity and Mixed Genre in Neoclassical Portraiture," Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850 (1990): 368-382.
"Antonio Canova's Drawings for 'Hercules and Lichas'," Master Drawings 27 (1989): 358- 367.
"Papal Patronage and Cultural Bureaucracy in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Clement XI and the Accademia di San Luca," Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1988): 1-23.
"Politics, Nationalism, and Friendship in Van Dyck's 'Le Roi à la Ciasse'," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 51 (1988): 243-261.
"Clement XI, Carlo Fontana, and Santa Maria Maggiore in the Early Eighteenth Century," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 45 (1986): 286-293.
"Some Observations on Collaboration and Patronage in the Altieri Chapel, San Francesco a Ripa: Bernini and Gaulli," Storia dell'Arte 50 (1984): 43-47.
"Theater and Theory: Thomas Sully's 'George Frederick Cooke as Richard III'," Winterthur Portfolio 18 (1983): 27-38.
Exhibition Catalogue Entries
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Joseph J. Rishel and Edgar Peters Bowron (Philadelphia and London, 2000), s.v. "Antonio Canova," pp. 234-239; "Giuseppe Chiari," pp. 345-348; "Sebastiano Conca," pp. 348 and 492-493; and "Francesco Trevisani," pp. 441-446.
Encyclopedia Entries
“David, Jacques-Louis,” in ed. Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis, The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 252-253.
"Neoclassicism, [4: 264-68]" "Canova, Antonio, [1: 376-78]" and "Mengs, Anton Raphael [4: 94-96]" in ed. John Dewald, Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004).
"Benincampi, Teresa." in ed. Delia Gaze, Dictionary of Women Artists, (London, 1997), pp. 243-44.
"Bertotti Scamozzi, Ottavio," in The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 4 vols. (New York, 1982), I: 203-204.
Book Reviews
Bindman, David. Warm Flesh, Cold Marble: Canova, Thorvaldsen and Their Critics (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014) The Sculpture Journal 24 (2015): 117-119.
Manfredi, Tommaso. Filippo Juvarra: Gli anni giovanili (Rome: Argos, 2010) Palladio 51 (2013): 134-136.
Paul, Carole. The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2008) Burlington Magazine 152 (2010): 480-481.
Aston, Nigel. Art and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Europe (London: Reaktion Books, 2009) Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften Sehepunkte 10 (June 15, 2010).
Nicassio, Susan Vandiver. Imperial City: Rome, Romans, and Napoleon, 1796-1815 (Welwyn Garden City, England: Ravenhall Books, 2005) Journal of Modern History 80 (2008): 688-90.
Collins, Jeffrey. Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004) Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006): 561-564.
Roettgen, Steffi. Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779, 2 vols. (Munich: Hirmer, 1999-2003) Kunstkronik 59 (2006): 400-404.
Kieven, Elisabeth and John Pinto, Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-Century Rome (University Park, Pa., and Montréal: Pennsylvania State University Press and Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2001) Master Drawings 41 (2003): 174-176.
Vögel, Matthias, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Darsteller der Leidenschaft (Zürich: InterPublishers, 2001) Master Drawings 41 (2003): 74-75.
Bjurström, Per, Nicola Pio as a Collector of Drawings (Stockholm: Suecoromana II, 1995) Master Drawings 40 (2002): 262-263.
Ciofalo, John J., The Self-Portraits of Francisco Goya (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) CAA On-Line Reviews (April 26, 2001).
St. Claire, William, Lord Elgin and the Marbles: The Controversial History of the Parthenon Sculptures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) Eighteenth-Century Studies 34 (2000): 309-311.
Shearer West, ed., Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) CAA On-Line Reviews (October 4, 1999).
Paula Rea Radisich, Hubert Robert: Painted Spaces of the Enlightenment (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) CAA On-line Reviews (May 14, 1999).
James David Draper and Guilhem Scherf, Augustin Pajou: Dessinateur en Italie, 1752-1756 (Paris: Librairie des Arts et Metiers-Editions Jacques Laget, 1997) Master Drawings 37 (1999): 69-70.
Petra Lamers, Il viaggio nel Sud dell'Abbé de Saint-Non (Naples: Electa Napoli, 1995) Master Drawings 36 (1998): 313-315.
David Bindman and Malcolm Baker, Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) and Marie Busco, Sir Richard Westmacott: Sculptor (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press) Art Bulletin 78 (1996): 565-568.
Elisabeth Kieven, ed. Ferdinando Fuga e l'architettura del Settecento (Florence: De Luca Editrice, 1988) Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 50 (1991): 324-325.
Hanns Gross, Rome in the Age of Enlightenment, (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), Burlington Magazine 133 (1991): 204-205.
Norma Broude, The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988) Italica 67 (1990): 222-224.
Carolyn Springer, The Marble Wilderness: Ruins and Representations in Italian Romanticism, 1775-1850 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988) Journal of European Ideas 10 (1989): 127-128.
John Pinto, The Trevi Fountain (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986) Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 46 (1987): 184-185.
MUSEUM ACTIVITIES
Member of the Organizing Committee for the exhibition "The Splendor of Eighteenth-Century Rome," Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March through September 2000.
Member of the Consultative Committee for the exhibition “Pompeo Batoni,” Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy, December 2008 through March 2009.
INVITED LECTURES
Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, December 2015. Title: “Art, Medicine, and Making Saints in Enlightenment Rome.”
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois, Boshell Classical Society Lecture, May 2015. Title: “Appropriation and Repatriation: Antiquities in Time of War in the Napoleonic Era.”
British School at Rome, Rome, Italy, June 2013. Title: “Chinoiserie in Piedmont: An International Language of Diplomacy and Modernity,” for the conference “Torino Britannica.”
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, March 2013. Title: “Piranesi and the Fabrication of Rome in the European Imagination: Le Vedute di Roma and Antichità Romane.”
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New York, March 2013. Title: “Piranesi and the Warwick Vase: Image, Text, Fragments, and Fictions in European Neoclassicism.”
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, October 2012. Elliott Society Lecture. Title: “Images of Rule in the Age of Revolution: Napoleon Bonaparte and Antonio Canova.”
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, England, May 2012. Title: “Richard Wilson in Rome, 1752-58.”
Washington University in Saint Louis and Saint Louis University, April 2012. Title: “Benedict XIV and the Quirinal Caffeaus: Papal Diplomacy in the Age of Catholic Enlightenment.”
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, November 2010. Title: “Papal Museums and ‘National’ Patrimony: The Rise of Modern Cultural Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Rome.”
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2010. Title: “The Art and Visual Culture of European Chinoiserie.”
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, April 2010, Franklin D. Murphy Lecture. Title: “China and the Church: Chinoiserie and the Roman Connection.”
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, October 2009, Harn Eminent Scholar Lecture. Title: “Antiquity, Neoclassicism, and the Grand Tour: The Appropriation of the Past for the Construction of the Present.”
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, England, May 2008. Title: “The Critical Fortunes of Pompeo Batoni.”
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2008. Title: “Joséphine, Sculpture, and Antiquity.” In conjunction with the exhibition “The Eye of Joséphine.”
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, January 2008. Symposium: Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome.” Title: “Pompeo Batoni: Visualizing Catholic Spirituality in Eighteenth-Century Rome.”
Rice University, Houston, Texas, January 2008. Title: “Public Art and Catholic Enlightenment: Cultural Display and Social Utility in Eighteenth-Century Rome.”
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, New York, November 2007. Title: “Catholic Enlightenment and the Tridentine ‘Good Bishop’: Benedict XIV’s Gifts of Liturgical Instruments to Bologna Cathedral.” In conjunction with the exhibition “Fragile Diplomacy: The Diplomatic Gift in the Courts of Early Modern Europe (1710-1763).”
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, April 2007. Title: “The Exotic Element in Catholic European Art: The Elephant and Visual Culture.”
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 2006. Bettye Allison Rand Lecture. Title: “Travel and Cultural Exchange in Enlightenment Italy.”
Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, Rava Family Lecture, September 2006. Title: “The Grand Tour ‘Swagger’ Portrait: To Vogue à la Mode in Eighteenth-Century Rome.”
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, September 2006. Inaugural lecture for the dedication of the new School of Art and Art History building. Title: “Papal Rome and European Enlightenment: Antiquity, Neoclassicism, and the Problem of Ancien Régime Modernity.”
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany, May 2006. Scholar-in-Residence Lecture. Title: “Public Art and Catholic Enlightenment: Strategies of Display and Social Utility in the Rome of Clement XII Corsini, 1730-1740.”
Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, April 2006. Title: “Spectacle and Splendor: The Papacy and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century Rome.”
The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy, February 2006. Keynote Address for the Conference “Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome.” Title: “Roma Britannica: Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Grand Tour Rome.”
Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, August 2005. Title: “Religious Art from the Counter-Reformation to the Catholic Enlightenment.”
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, June 2005. Title: “Tourism, Spectacle, and the Art Economy in Eighteenth-Century Rome.”
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, April 2004. Resident’s Lecture. Title: “Art and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris: Antonio Canova’s ‘Penitent Magdalene’.”
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, January 2004. Philipp H. Fehl Memorial Lecture. Title: “Art and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris: Antonio Canova’s ‘Penitent Magdalene’.”
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, October 2003. Title: “Women Artists and Ancien Régime Academies: Rosalba Carriera and the Venice-Rome-Paris Axis.”
University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, September 2003. Conference: Francesco Bianchini und die europäische gelehrte Welt um 1700. Title: "Papa Albani and Francesco Bianchini: Intellectual and Visual Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome."
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2003. Title: "Canova's 'George Washington' and the Cultural Politics of Classicism in the Antebellum South."
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2003. Norman and Roselea Goldberg Lecture. Title: "The Visual Construction of National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Pompeo Batoni's 'The Honourable Colonel William Gordon'."
John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, March 2003. Title: "Art and Warfare in Napoleonic Europe: Militarism and Romanticism, 1795-1815."
University of Saint Andrews, Saint Andrews, Scotland, March 2003. Conference: The Scottish Presence in Italy in the Eighteenth Century. Title: "'Scotia Romam superat': Pompeo Batoni's Portrait of Colonel William Gordon."
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, November 2002. Title: "Tudor Women: Visual Presentation and Gender Objectification at the Court of Henry VIII."
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2002. Keynote Address for the Conference “Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum.” Title: “Roma Redux: Neoclassicism, Antiquity, and the Aesthetic Problematics of the European Enlightenment.”
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Baldwin Lecture, September 2002. “Cultural Commodification and the Grand Tour: The Origins of the Art Museum in Eighteenth-Century Rome."
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, Sponenburgh Lecture on the History of Sculpture, May 2002. Title: “’Those Who Copy are Never Copied’: Antonio Canova, Emulation, and the Modern Sculptural Masterpiece.”
Oregon State University, Bend, Oregon, May 2002. Title: "Sculptural Patronage and Cultural Politics: Napoleon Bonaparte versus Antonio Canova."
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, March 2002. Title: “Spectators and Spectacle: Cultural Tourism and Native Unrest in Eighteenth-Century Rome.”
Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, October 2001. Title: “Canova’s ‘George Washington’ Redux: Art and Politics in the Antebellum South.”
Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, Delaware, October 2000. Title: “The Formation of a Modernist Artistic Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe.”
Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy, September 2000. Keynote Address for the Conference "Le Arti in Gara." Title: "Le Arti in Gara: Una proposta per un modello di studi interdisciplinari sul Settecento romano."
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, June 2000. Title: "Art, Law, and Cultural Properties in Time of War: Napoleon and the States of the Church."
Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2000. Title: "Napoleon and the Arts."
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2000. Title: "When the Spectator becomes the Spectacle: Rome's Reaction to the Grand Tour."
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, New York, Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture, January 2000. Title: "Eighteenth-Century Rome and the Invention of Early Modern Museology."
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, October 1999. Blakemore-Godwin Lecture. Title: "Cultural Commodification and Strategies of Display: The Grand Tour's Impact on Eighteenth-Century Roman Museology."
Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, November 1998. Title: "Antonio Canova’s Portrait of George Washington and the Neoclassical Image of the Ruler."
Swedish Institute, Rome, Italy, September 1998. Title: "Art, History, and Interdisciplinarity: The Case for Settecento Rome."
Austin College, Sherman, Texas, April 1998. Title: "Gianlorenzo Bernini and the Roman Baroque."
University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, Dorothy K. Hohenberg Lecture, March 1998. Title: "Painting and Politics in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe."
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 1998. Title: Antonio Canova and the Dismantling of the Musée Napoléon in Paris in 1815.”
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, February 1998. Title: "Painting in Eighteenth- Century France."
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, October 1997. Title: "'That Great Cavern of Stolen Goods': Antonio Canova at the Louvre in 1815."
University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1996. Title: "Art and Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1799."
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 1995. Title: "Antonio Canova and the Politics of Representation."
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, February 1995. Title: "Art and Politics in Imperial Austria: Antonio Canova and the Habsburgs."
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 1994. Title: "The Roman Academy and Religious Art in the Early Eighteenth Century."
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 1993. Title: "Art and Politics in Revolutionary Europe."
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, July 1992. Title: "The Grand Tour Portrait in Eighteenth-Century Rome."
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1992. Title: “Revolutionary Art and Cultural Politics in the Sculpture of Antonio Canova."
University of California, Los Angeles, California, January 1992. Title: "The Politics of Aesthetics in the Early Work of Antonio Canova."
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., August 1990. Title: "French Painting at the Beginning of the Second Empire."
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, November 1989. Title: "Art and Revolution in France, 1789-1799."
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, June 1989. Title: "Jacques-Louis David and the Revolutionary Martyrs."
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, March 1988. Title: "Antonio Canova's Politics and Patronage: The Case of 'Hercules and Lichas'."
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, March 1987. Title: "Anthony Van Dyck's Portraits of King Charles I."
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 1986. Title: "Jacques-Louis David, Antonio Canova, and the Cult of Antiquity in Revolutionary Europe."
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March 1986. Title: "The Role of Rome in the Formation of Neoclassicism."
Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, March 1985. Title: "Gianlorenzo Bernini and the Depiction of Conventual Ecstasy."
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, March 1985. Title: Gianlorenzo Bernini and the Visualization of Ecstatic Transport in Baroque Rome.”
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, May 1984. Rome Prize Fellow’s Lecture. Title: "The Sources of the Paleochristian Revival in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome."
Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida, June 1978. Title: “The Portraits of Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres.”
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, February 2016. Title: “The Color Yellow: Qing Imperial Chromatics and the Origins of Western Ideas of Eastern Difference.”
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah, Georgia, February 2016. Chair for the Session “Art, Women, and International Exchange.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, California, March 2015. Title: John Singleton Copley in Rome: The Challenge of the Old Masters Accepted.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2013. Chair for the Session “New Scholars Session in Honor of Anne Schroder.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, Texas, March 2012. Respondent for the Session “Exoticisms: Global Commodity Exchange in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 2011. Title: Canova’s ‘Penitent Magdalene’: Art, Literature, and Romantic Catholicism in Napoleonic Paris.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon, March 2008. Title: “Did the King take Coffee with the Pope?: Charles III, Benedict XIV, and the Quirinal Caffeaus.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2007. Session Chair: “Catholicism and the Visual Arts in Enlightenment Europe.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, April 2006. Title: “Caffeine and Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s ‘Caffeaus’ and the Politics of Reasonable Accommodation.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2005. Title: “Gender and Compositional Hierarchies in Eighteenth-Century Painting: Perseus and Andromeda from the Rococo to Neoclassicism.”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2003. Title: "Antoine Watteau, Rosalba Carriera, and the Pastel Portrait in Regency France."
College Art Association, New York, New York, February 2003. Session Chair: “Sacred and Profane in Enlightenment Visual Culture.”
University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, and The Getty Research Institute, April 2002. “Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour.” Title: “Gender and Genre in the Religious Art of Catholic Enlightenment.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2002. Session Chair: Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture “Open Session.”
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, “Interarts Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century French Art,” March 2001. Title: “Antonio Canova’s ‘Mary Magdalene’ and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2001. Respondent for the Session: “Art, Women, and the Politics of Identity.”
Mid-West Art History Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2001. Title: “Antonio Canova and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris.”
International Congress of the History of Art, London, England, September 2000. Title: "Public Monuments and Republican Politics: Antonio Canova's 'George Washington' and the Rhetoric of Classical Antiquity."
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2000. Chair for the Symposium "The Splendor of Eighteenth-Century Rome."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2000. Title: "Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: A Critique of Current Practice in the Humanities."
College Art Association, New York, New York, February 2000. Session Co- Chair: "The Entrepôt of Europe: Rome in the Eighteenth Century."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1999. Title: "The Artist's Studio: Grand Tourists and Cultural Politics in Ancien Régime Rome."
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 1998. Title: "The Treaty of Tolentino and the Cultural Spoliation of Italy, 1796-97."
College Art Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 1998. Title: "Regionalism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Risorgimento: Antonio Canova and Italian Unification."
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December 1997. Session Chair: "The City."
Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, October 1997. Title: "Antonio Canova's 'Penitent Magdalene' in Paris: Religious Sexuality and the Catholic Revival during the Empire."
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 1997. Title: "Antonio Canova and Cultural Politics in Paris in 1815: The De- Construction of the Musée Napoléon."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tucson, Arizona, April 1995. Session Chair: "The Politics of Patronage in the Visual and Performing Arts."
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1995. Title: "Art and Politics in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, March 1994. Title: "Portrait Mythology: Antonio Canova's Representations of the Bonapartes."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Seattle, Washington, April 1992. Title: "Was There a Rococo in Rome?"
College Art Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 1992. Title: "Papal Art and Anti-Nepotism in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1991. Title: "Art, Science, and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Bologna: Donato Creti's Vatican Astronomical Paintings."
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, September 1989. Title: "Antonio Canova's Portraits of Napoleon: Mixed Genre and the Question of Nudity in Revolutionary Portraiture.”
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Center for Austrian Studies, April 1989. Title: "Antonio Canova's Hapsburg Commissions."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1989. Title: "Art, Politics, and Ambiguity: Antonio Canova and the Modern Masterpiece."
College Art Association, San Francisco, California, February 1989. Title: "Allegory and Artifact in the Reinterpretation of History in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1987. Title: "Narrative and Anti-Narrative in Arcadian Landscape Painting."
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1986. Title: "Papal Patronage and the French Connection in Early Eighteenth- Century Rome."
Society of Architectural Historians, Washington, D.C., April 1986. Title: "Clement XI, Carlo Fontana, and the Portico Gates at Santa Maria Maggiore."
New England Land Grant Universities' Symposium in the History of Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, April 1986. Title: "The Role of Art Theory in the Art Market: Clement XI's Reform of the Rules of the Accademia di San Luca."
College Art Association of America, Los Angeles, California, February 1985. Title: Clement XI's Restoration of the Basilica of San Clemente."
Middle-Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 1980. Title: "Thomas Sully's 'George Frederick Cooke as Richard III': Art Theory and Theatrical Practice.”
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Franklin Murphy Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Kansas, 2009
Scholar in Residence, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany, 2006
Visiting Distinguished Research Professor, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Munich, 2005
Resident in Art History, American Academy in Rome, 2004
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Art History, University of Iowa, 2001
Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Finalist, College Art Association, 2000
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Book Publication Subvention, 1998
Ahmanson Foundation Book Publication Endowment, 1998
Dorothy K. Hohenberg Chair of Excellence, University of Memphis, 1997-98.
Thomas Jefferson Fellowship, Downing College, University of Cambridge, 1996
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Merit Award, 1995
University of Virginia Research Appointment, 1990, 1996
University of Virginia Alumni Council Outstanding Teacher Award, 1991
Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, 1989-90, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2012
University of Rome, Center for American Studies, Research Fellowship, 1989
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1988
University of Virginia Summer Research Grant, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003
Folger Institute Fellowship, 1987
Rome Prize in Art History, American Academy in Rome, 1983-84
Chester Dale Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1983- 84
Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, 1983
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Delaware, 1982-83
University Fellowship, University of Delaware, 1978-82
Indiana University Graduate Fellowship, 1977-78
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Editorial Board, ArcHistor: Architettura Storia Restauro, 2013-
Member, Editorial Board, University of Delaware Press, 2011-
Member, Editorial Board, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 2010-
Juror, National Humanities Center Fellowship Competition, 2012, 2014, 2015
Juror, Art History Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009, 2013
Co-Chair for the Symposium “Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Europe.” Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, England, 2008.
Member of the Executive Board, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2005-2008
Juror, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Committee, 2003, 2011, 2012
Member, Editorial Board, Master Drawings Association of America, 2002-2004
Juror, Rome Prize Committee, American Academy in Rome, 1999
Advisory Editor for Art History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1990-1993
Editorial Board, Occasional Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art, University of Delaware Press, 1996- 2005
Clifford Prize Committee, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1995 (to award prize for the best article on an eighteenth-century topic published in 1994)
Specialist Reader for Canadian Art Review; Art Bulletin; Eighteenth-Century Studies; Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Melbourne Art Journal; Women’s History Review; Cambridge University Press; Pennsylvania State University Press; University of Delaware Press; University of Chicago Press; University of North Carolina Press; Ashgate Publishing
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Chair, Department of History of Art, Vanderbilt University, 2005-09
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History of Art, Vanderbilt University, 2004-05
President, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, 1994-2001
Director of Undergraduate Studies, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, 1986-1994; 1998-2001
Director of Graduate Studies, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, 1994-95
TENURE AND PROMOTION COMMITTEES
Colgate University New York University Washington University in Saint Louis Southern Illinois University at Carbondale University of California at San Diego Smith College Franklin & Marshall College University of Tulsa University of California at Irvine University of Melbourne (Australia) University of Oregon University of Florida (2) Case Western Reserve University University of Rhode Island University of Sydney (Australia) (2) University of Washington (2) Colorado State University State University of New York at Albany University of Arizona (2) University of Seattle University of Hartford Loyola University-New Orleans
EXTERNAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Jeffrey Laird Collins, Yale University Michael Yonan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jennifer Germann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jon Seydl, University of Pennsylvania Heidi Krause, University of Iowa Carl Wuellner, University of Virginia (first reader) Jill Deupi, University of Virginia (first reader) Cory Korkow, University of Virginia Hyejin Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tyler Ostergaard, University of Iowa Elyse Nelson, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University