Members' Research Reports, 2011–2018
Every fellow submits a written summary of the independent research accomplished while in residence at the Center, for publication in the annual Center Report. These reports often represent the first published record of new research, and as
Tiffany A. Racco
Research Associate, 2017–2018
Luca Giordano: Speed, Imitation, and the Art of Fame
Jessica N. Richardson
Research Associate, 2011–2012
Medieval Images in the Early Modern City
Fredo Rivera [Duke University]
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2011–2013
Revolutionizing Modernities: Visualizing Utopia in 1960s Havana, Cuba
Mary Roberts, University of Sydney
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Islamic Art, Museology, and Transcultural Artist-Dealer Networks, 1850–1910
Alla Rosenfeld, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2014
Images for the New Generation: Russian Illustrated Children's Books, 1918–1936
D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 23–July 1, 2011
Imagining the Alhambra
Carlos Sambricio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2013
A History of the History of Spanish Architecture
Alexa Kristen Sand, Utah State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1, 2015–June 30, 2015
Moral Vision: La Somme le
Rachel Saunders [Harvard University]
Ittleson Fellow, 2013–2015
The Illustrated Life of Xuanzang: Poetry, Painting, and Pilgrimage in Medieval Japan
Kimberly Schenck, National Gallery of Art
Ailsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial / Conservation Fellow, 2017–2018
Mary Cassatt and Soft-Ground Etching, 1879–1890
Monika Schmitter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 18–August 15, 2012
Portrait of a Collector: Andrea Odoni and His Sixteenth-Century Venetian Palace
Guendalina Serafinelli
Research Associate, 2011–2012
Giacinto Brandi (1621–1691): Documentary and Philological Research
Research Associate, 2012–2013
Between Guido Reni and Mattia Preti
Research Associate, 2013–2014
Art and Faith: Martyrdom, Conversion, and Devotion in the Early Modern Period
Research Associate, 2014–2015
Art and Conversion in Early Modern Rome: The Boncompagni Corcos Family
Eiren L. Shea[University of Pennsylvania]
Ittleson Fellow, 2014–2016
Fashioning Mongol Identity in China (1200–1350)
Susan L. Siegfried, University of Michigan
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Temporalities of Fashion and Costume in Nineteenth-Century Art
Nathaniel Silver
Research Associate, 2013–2014
The Place of the Predella in the Renaissance
Emma R. Silverman [University of California, Berkeley]
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2017–2018
From Eyesore to Icon: The Watts Towers and Modernism in the Margins
Lucia Simonato, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, November 4–December 31, 2013
Literary Description and Visual Experience of the Vatican Palace In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Anna Lise Seastrand [Columbia University]
Ittleson Fellow, 2010–2012
Image and Text in Early Modern South Indian Murals
Jennifer M. S. Stager [University of California, Berkeley]
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2009–2012
Color, Matter, Vision, and Space: Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Polychromy
Łukasz Stanek
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2012
Henri Lefebvre's “Vers
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2013
Henri Lefebvre's “Vers
Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017
The Borders of Chinese Architecture: Balhae and Jurchen
Jessica Stevenson Stewart [University of California, Berkeley]
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2013–2014
Rules of Engagement: Art, Commerce, and Diplomacy in Golden Age Antwerp, 1500–1576
Zachary Stewart[Columbia University]
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2014–2015
The Integrated Interior: Parish Church Architecture in Eastern England, c. 1330–c. 1550
Alice Isabella Sullivan [University of Michigan]
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2015–2016
The Painted Fortified Monastic Churches of Moldavia: Bastions of Orthodoxy in a Post-Byzantine World
Nicola Paxton Sullo [Yale University]
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2014–2015
The Art of Memory in Byzantium during the Later Middles Ages
Maggie Taft[University of Chicago]
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2012
Making Danish Modern, 1945–1960
Phil Taylor [Princeton University]
David E. Finley Fellow, 2014–2017
Raoul Ubac's Photographic Surrealism
James Merle Thomas [Stanford University]
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2012–2014
The Administration of Space: Habitability and Abstraction during the Apollo Era
Silvia Tita
Research Associate, 2014–2015
The Visual Politics of Constantinian Imagery
Research Associate, 2015–2016
The Visual Politics of Constantinian Imagery in the Early Modern Period
Research Associate, 2016–2017
The Visual Politics of Constantinian Imagery in the Early Modern Period
Research Associate, 2017–2018
Topics in Post-Tridentine Sacred Art: Church Councils, Pontifical Works, and Miraculous Battles
Patrizia Tosini, Università
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 2–December 15, 2011
Projects for Wall Decorations in Rome and Latium in the Second Half of the Cinquecento: New Discoveries and Considerations on Practice
Tran Ky Phuong, Vietnam Association of Ethnic Minorities’ Culture and Arts
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 21–August 22, 2012
Iconographical Features of the My Son Sanctuary: The Cham Art of Vietnam and Its Relationship with Javanese and Cambodian Art
Shigebumi Tsuji, Osaka University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2017
The Cosmological Background of Monumental Representation of Christophany Before the Iconoclasm
Noa Turel [University of California, Santa Barbara]
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2011–2012
Life to Likeness: Painting and Spectacle
James Grantham Turner, University of California, Berkeley
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2013
Eros Visible: Sexuality, Art, and Antiquity in Italy, 1499–1540
Ginette Vagenheim, Université de Rouen–Normandie
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, June 15, 2015–August 15, 2015
Pirro Ligorio’s Early Drawings and the Influence of Polidoro da Caravaggio: A Focus on Landscapes
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 28, 2017
Pirro Ligorio as a Draftsman: The Catalogue Raisonné of his Drawings
Hérica Valladares, Baltimore
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2014
On Roman Tenderness: Painting and Poetry in the Early Empire
Ivo van der Graaff
Research Associate, 2014–2015
Architecture and Urbanism on the Ancient Bay of Naples
Research Associate, 2015–2016
The Ancient Bay of Naples
Oscar E. Vázquez,
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2014
Learning to Draw in Spanish: Copying the Body in Latin American Academies of Art, 1781–1910
Susan Wager [Columbia University]
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2012–2014
Boucher’s Bijoux: Luxury Reproductions in the Age of Enlightenment
Matthias Weniger, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2015
The Sculpture Collector Benoit Oppenheim (1842–1931)
Stephen Hart Whiteman
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014
Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014
Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)
Iain Boyd Whyte, University of Edinburgh
Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2015–2016
Survey and Anthology
Leslie Wilson [University of Chicago]
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2015–2017
Past Black and White: The Color of Photography in South Africa, 1994–2004
Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2015–2016
Building Race and Nation: How Slavery Influenced the Civic Architecture of Antebellum America
Arnold Witte, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 3–July 31, 2013
Seicento Religious Theater and the Visual Arts: Contemporary References in Art Treatises
Kelli Wood [University of Chicago]
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2014–2016
The Art of Play: Games in Early Modern Italy
Reva Wolf,
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017
Goya and Freemasonry
Maria Cristina Wolff de Carvalho, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2011–2012
The Landscape Art of William John Burchell (1781–1863)
Nicole L. Woods, University of Notre Dame
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2017
Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In / Out of Fluxus
Xin Wu, The College of William and Mary
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 5–February 28, 2015
Gardens and Landscapes as Neo-Confucian Metaphors: Vision and Place-Making in Song Academies
Oliver Wunsch [Harvard University]
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2016–2017
Painting Against Time: The Decaying Image in the French Enlightenment
Elaine Y.
Wyeth Fellow, 2012–2014
Sister Gertrude Morgan’s Material Performances and the Sensory Cultures in New Orleans, 1960‒1983
Andrés Mario Zervigón, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2013–2014
Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (The Worker's Illustrated Magazine), 1921–1938: A History of Germany's Other Avant-Garde
Yanfei Zhu[The Ohio State University]
Ittleson Fellow, 2011–2013
Transtemporal and Cross-Border Alignment: The
Benjamin Zweig
Research Associate, 2014–2015
Unforgivable Sin: Suicide in Medieval Art
Research Associate, 2015–2016
Depicting the Unforgivable Sin: Suicide in Medieval Art
Research Associate, 2016–2017
Imagining the Unforgivable Sin: Suicide in Medieval Art and Thought
Research Associate, 2017–2018
Imagining the Unforgivable Sin: Suicide in Medieval Art and Thought