CASVA also announced the appointment of six senior and five visiting senior fellows, including a Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar for fall 2009; two postdoctoral fellows; 18 predoctoral fellows; and four predoctoral fellowships for historians of American art to travel abroad.
CASVA was founded 30 years ago to promote the study of the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism through the formation of a community of scholars. A variety of private sources supports the program of fellowships, and the appointments are ratified by the Gallery’s Board of Trustees.
The position of Samuel H. Kress Professor was created in 1965. It is reserved for a distinguished art historian who, as the senior member of CASVA, pursues scholarly work and counsels predoctoral fellows in residence.
Dr. Bert W. Meijer is a professor emeritus at Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Insituut, Florence/Universiteit Utrecht, where he also received his Ph.D. in 1975 and was Chair of the Art History Department from 1991 to 2008. Dr. Meijer received the Tablet of Honor of the Mayor of Florence for his art historical activities in 2008, and the Dante Alighieri International Award, La Spezia, in 2001. Dr. Meijer is an Accademico Corrispondente of the Accademia dell’Arte del Disegno in Florence and has held fellowships at the British Council, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, and the Fulbright-Hays Program.
The position of Andrew W. Mellon Professor was created in 1994 for distinguished academic and museum professionals. Mellon professors serve two consecutive years and pursue independent research at CASVA while collaborating in scholarly exchanges with the Mellon senior curator and Mellon head of scientific research.
Dr. Miguel Falomir serves as the Head Curator for the Department of Italian Renaissance Painting at the Museo Nacional del Prado and is a professor at the University of Valencia, where he received his Ph.D. in 1993. Dr. Falmoir has published extensively on the work of the great masters Titian and Tintoretto, most recently contributing to exhibition catalogues for the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Florence, and the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Dr. Falomir has also held fellowships at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas of Madrid.
The position of Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor was established in 2002 through a grant from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. The Safra Professor serves for up to six months, forging connections between the research of the curatorial staff and that of visiting scholars at CASVA. At the same time, the Safra Professor advances his or her own research on subjects associated with the Gallery’s permanent collection. The Safra Professor may also present seminars or curatorial lectures for graduate students and emerging scholars and curators from other institutions. The Safra Professor’s area of expertise varies from year to year, spanning the Gallery’s permanent collection—from sculpture, to painting, to works on paper of all periods.
Roger Taylor is a professor of photographic history for De Montfort University and the senior curator of photographs and head of research development for the National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Taylor’s exhibitions Impressed by Light and All the Mighty World have been shown at the National Gallery of Art as well as at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Taylor was awarded the J. Dudley Johnston Award by the Royal Photographic Society in 2007 and the Kranza Krausz Photographic Book Award in 2003 and 2008. He has also held fellowship positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in 1949 "to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts." The program is named for Andrew W. Mellon, the founder of the National Gallery of Art, who gave the nation his art collection and funds to build the West Building, which opened to the public in 1941.
Dr. Mary Miller is the Master of Saybrook College and formerly served as chair of the History of Art department at Yale University, where she also received her Ph.D. in 1981. Dr. Miller has published extensively on ancient civilizations, specifically focusing on the Maya and Mesoamerica. Miller’s book Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya was shortlisted for the Barr Award in 2004, and her book The Blood of Kings: Ritual and Dynasty in Maya Art won the Barr Award in 1988. Miller has also received a National Geographic Society research grant and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Solomon Guggenheim.
Casva Members for 2009–2010
Members of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) for the 2009–2010 academic year are listed below with their current affiliations and research topics.
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
Harvard University
Imaging Amazons: Dahomey Women Warriors In and Out of Africa
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellows
Yale University
Flying Francis: Catastrophes, Insurrections, and Art in the Colonial Andes
University of Toronto
Barock: Art History and Politics from Burckhardt to Hitler, 1844–1945
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellows
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Abstract Bodies, Postwar Sculpture, and Designating the "Human"
Barnard College
Allegories of Time and Space: The Visualization of Japanese Identity in Architecture, Photography, and Popular Culture
Virginia Commonwealth University
Inca Baroque: Colonial Architecture and the Image of the State in Cuzco, Peru
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, fall 2009
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Beyond Ceremony: Architectural Retreats in Early Modern Italy
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Women and Modernity in Posters, 1880s–1900s
Universität Bern
Contested Historicisms: Uses and Interpretations of Architectural Formulas in Washington, DC
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2009
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The Ancestors of Christ: Christians and Jews in the Sistine Chapel
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow/Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, fall 2009
Villa I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
The "Grande Sorella" of Brunelleschi's Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore: A Comparative Examination of the Structural and Administrative History of the Construction of the Dome of Saint Peter's
Postdoctoral Fellows
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009–2010
Hunter College of the City University of New York
Architecture, Ceremony, and the Construction of Authority in Late Antiquity
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009–2011
University of Southern California
The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures: Objects of History, Objects of Ritual
Predoctoral Fellows (in residence)
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of Minnesota]
Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1501–1639
Ittleson Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of California, Berkeley]
Where Our Journeys End: Visions, Exchanges, and Encounters in Early Modern Representations of Mount Wutai
David E. Finley Fellow, 2007–2010
[Harvard University]
Kosmos of Verse: Art and Epigram in Late Byzantium
Twenty-four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of California, Santa Barbara]
Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico City
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2007–2010
[Columbia University]
The Baroque Effect: Architecture, History, and Politics in Austria and Germany
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2008–2010
[Harvard University]
Neopaganism: Henry Fuseli, Theater, and the Cultural Politics of Antiquity, 1765 – 1825
Wyeth Fellow, 2008–2010
[University of California, Los Angeles]
Constructing Africa: The Visualization of Homeland and Diaspora in African-American Art of the 1960s and 1970s
Predoctoral Fellows (not in residence)
David E. Finley Fellow, 2009–2012
[Bryn Mawr College]
World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2009 – 2011
[University of Southern California]
Kunstwissenschaft and the "Primitive": Excursions in the History of Art History, 1880–1925
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2009–2011
[Yale University]
The Handwritten Letter and the Work of Art in the Age of the Printing Press, 1490 – 1530
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2009–2010
[Columbia University]
The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M. 126)
David E. Finley Fellow, 2008–2011
[Columbia University]
Staging Neoclassicism: Exhibitions of Antonio Canova's Sculptures
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2009–2010
[Columbia University]
Ornament, Aesthetic Theory, and Expressive Signs in Second Empire French Architecture: Victor Ruprich-Robert and the Flore Ornementale
Ittleson Fellow, 2009–2011
[Columbia University]
Urban Imaginings between Empires: Mapping from Udaipur to Jaipur, 1707–1832
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2008–2011
[Harvard University]
Crucifix and Crucifixion in Ninth- through and Tenth-Century Breton Gospel Books: The Early Medieval Liturgical Cross and Its Representations
Wyeth Fellow, 2009–2011
[Harvard University]
The Puritan Art World
Twenty-four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2009–2011
[Princeton University]
Sculpture's Condition/Conditions of Publicness: Isa Genzken and Thomas Hirschhorn
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2009–2012
[University of California, Berkeley]
The Embodiment of Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad
[University of Pennsylvania]
[Emory University]
[University of Rochester]
[University of Maryland]
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