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
, University of California, Los Angeles (emerita)
Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2017–2018
Constructing Victories: Arches as Celebrations of Roman Infrastructure
, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2015
The American Watercolor Movement: 1860–1925
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2010–2012
Islamic Art and the Making of the Spanish Enlightenment
, Heidelberg University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2016–2017
Before the Fall of Chinoiserie
, Southern Methodist University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, September 18, 2017–January 12, 2018
Hunting Landscapes and Political Contestation in Eighteenth-Century France
Johns Hopkins University
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2012–2015
Taste and Prudence in the Art of Jusepe de Ribera
, 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
Columbia University
David E. Finley Fellow, 2013–2016
Jan van de Velde II: The Printmaker as Creative Artist in the Early Dutch Republic
, Collège de France
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, fall 2011
The Academy of Painting and Sculpture in the Ancien Régime: New Perspectives
, 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
, 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)
Yale University
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2010–2013
Criminal and Martyr: Art and Execution in Britain, 1725–1801
, University of Warwick (emeritus)
Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2011–2012
What's in a Name? Giotto di Bondone
, 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
, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2016
Cézanne and Non-Arcadian Abstraction
, 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
, University of Chicago
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, February 1–March 31, 2016
The Invention of the Moving and Projected Image
, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2012–2013
The Reliquary Effect
Research Associate, 2011–2012
Devotion at Santa Maria dei Carmini
Research Associate, 2012–2013
Donor Portraiture in Venice and Jacopo Bellini at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
Research Associate, 2013–2014
Carmelite Devotion, Patronage, and Art
, Independent scholar
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2015–2016
The “Low” Style of Giovanni da San Giovanni at the Medici Court
, 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
Princeton University
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2013
The Image of the World in Thirteenth-Century Rome
, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2013–2014
Catalogue Raisonné of Bolognese Paintings at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
, Princeton University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Purgatories of Line: Time and the Printed Image in the Northern Renaissance
Research Associate, 2011–2012
Salvator Rosa: The Letters and Other Studies in Friendship and Identity
Research Associate, 2012–2013
Salvator Rosa as “Amico Vero,” the Letters, and Other Studies in Artistic Identity
, 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
, University of Michigan
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2017–2018
Scratching the Surface: The Marking and Transformation of Panel Paintings in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy, 1250–1550
University of Rochester
Wyeth Fellow, 2011–2013
Places to Stand: Histories of Native Art beyond the Nation
, Brown University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
A Splendid Predicament: Young Men in Maya Imagery and Text
, University of Southern California
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 29–August 15, 2015
Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process
University of California, Berkeley
Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow, 2015–2017
Rubens in a New World: Prints, Authorship, and Transatlantic Intertextuality
, 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
Harvard University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2015–2017
In the Footsteps of Our Fathers: The Morgan Library's Vitae patrum, M. 626
, University of Southern California
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2011–2012
Rock ’n’ Film
Harvard University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2013–2015
In the Guise of Holiness: Portraiture, Dynastic Politics, and Sanctity under the Spanish Habsburgs
, DePaul University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2012
Cultural Fantasies, Ideological Goals, and Political Economic Realities: The Built Environment at Auschwitz
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2014–2016
Building, Trotz Alledem! Mapping Construction in Germany, 1914–1924
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2014–2016
Mapping the Construction Industry in Interwar Germany (1914–1945): Digital Methods and Architectural Historical Sources
, 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
Yale University
David E. Finley Fellow, 2010–2013
Nobilibus Pinacothecae Sunt Faciundae: The Inception of the Roman Fictive Picture Gallery
, 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
, 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

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