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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 such we hope they are useful to scholars working on related topics. For research reports published before 2011, please see the annual Center reports.

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Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles (emerita)
Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2017–2018
Constructing Victories: Arches as Celebrations of Roman Infrastructure

Diane Favro

Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2015
The American Watercolor Movement: 1860–1925

Kathleen A. Foster

Caroline O. Fowler
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013–2015
Absence Made Present: Drawing the Memory Body, 1400–1750

A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013–2015
Absence Made Present: An Early Modern History of Drawing and the Senses

Caroline O. Fowler

Razan Francis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2010–2012
Islamic Art and the Making of the Spanish Enlightenment



Sarah Elizabeth Fraser, Heidelberg University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2016–2017
Before the Fall of Chinoiserie

Sarah Elizabeth Fraser

Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, September 18, 2017–January 12, 2018
Hunting Landscapes and Political Contestation in Eighteenth-Century France

Amy Freund

Hannah J. Friedman, Johns Hopkins University
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2012–2015
Taste and Prudence in the Art of Jusepe de Ribera

Hannah J. Friedman

Cecilia Frosinini, Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro, Florence
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2013
Giotto in Florence: Shedding New Light on the Peruzzi Chapel



Robert L. Fucci, Columbia University
David E. Finley Fellow, 2013–2016
Jan van de Velde II: The Printmaker as Creative Artist in the Early Dutch Republic

Robert L. Fucci

Marc Fumaroli, Collège de France
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, fall 2011
The Academy of Painting and Sculpture in the Ancien Régime: New Perspectives



Frances Gage, Buffalo State College, State University of New York
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2011
Visual Cures: Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Italy



Maria Clelia Galassi, Università degli Studi di Genova
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016
Jan Massys and the Depiction of Female Beauty in Flemish Painting (1530–1575)

Maria Clelia Galassi

Meredith Gamer, Yale University
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2010–2013
Criminal and Martyr: Art and Execution in Britain, 1725–1801

Meredith Gamer

Julian Gardner, University of Warwick (emeritus)
Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2011–2012
What's in a Name? Giotto di Bondone



Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 18–August 15, 2012
"Prosper Thou Our Handyworks": Prints and Protestant Devotion at Little Gidding, 1625–1642



Judit Geskó, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2016
Cézanne and Non-Arcadian Abstraction

Judit Geskó

Christine Göttler, Universität Bern
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 14, 2013
Inventing Newness: Local History and Global Ambitions in the Art and Visual Culture of Early Modern Antwerp, c. 1560–1630

Christine Göttler

Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, February 1–March 31, 2016
The Invention of the Moving and Projected Image

Tom Gunning

Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2012–2013
The Reliquary Effect

Cynthia Hahn

Morten Steen Hansen, Independent scholar
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2015–2016
The “Low” Style of Giovanni da San Giovanni at the Medici Court

Morten Steen Hansen

Eleni Hasaki, University of Arizona
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, March 12–May 11, 2018
Craft Apprenticeship, Social Networks, and Communities of Practice in Ancient Greece

Eleni Hasaki

Marius Bratsberg Hauknes, Princeton University
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2013
The Image of the World in Thirteenth-Century Rome

Marius Bratsberg Hauknes

Andreas Henning, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2013–2014
Catalogue Raisonné of Bolognese Paintings at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Andreas Henning

Christopher P. Heuer, Princeton University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Purgatories of Line: Time and the Printed Image in the Northern Renaissance

Christopher P. Heuer

Michel Hochmann, École pratique des hautes études, Paris
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 5–February 28, 2014
Colorito: Painting Techniques in Venice during the Sixteenth Century

Michel Hochmann

Jessica L. Horton, University of Rochester
Wyeth Fellow, 2011–2013
Places to Stand: Histories of Native Art beyond the Nation



Stephen Houston, Brown University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
A Splendid Predicament: Young Men in Maya Imagery and Text

Stephen Houston

Suzanne Hudson, University of Southern California
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 29–August 15, 2015
Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process

Suzanne Hudson

Aaron M. Hyman, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow, 2015–2017
Rubens in a New World: Prints, Authorship, and Transatlantic Intertextuality

Aaron M. Hyman

Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2015
Degas and Cassatt: Constructing their Relationship, Legacy, and Value

Ruth E. Iskin

Denva Jackson, Harvard University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2015–2017
In the Footsteps of Our Fathers: The Morgan Library's Vitae patrum, M. 626

Denva Jackson

David E. James, University of Southern California
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2011–2012
Rock ’n’ Film


Adam Jasienski, Harvard University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2013–2015
In the Guise of Holiness: Portraiture, Dynastic Politics, and Sanctity under the Spanish Habsburgs

Adam Jasienski

Lynn Jones, Florida State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016
An Imperial Cult? The Case of Nikephoros II Phokas in the Rock-Cut Church of Cavusin, Cappadocia

Lynn Jones

Nathaniel B. Jones, Yale University
David E. Finley Fellow, 2010–2013
Nobilibus Pinacothecae Sunt Faciundae: The Inception of the Roman Fictive Picture Gallery


Caroline Jordan, La Trobe University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 22–October 24, 2014
Cultural Change or Cultural Diplomacy? The Carnegie Corporation of New York's British Dominions Exhibitions, 1934–1941

Caroline Jordan

Maite Jover de Celis, Museo Nacional del Prado
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2014
Wooden Supports in Seventeenth-Century Flemish Paintings in the Museo del Prado: Dating and Panel Manufacturing Technology

Maite Jover de Celis