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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.

Tiffany A. Racco
Research Associate, 2017–2018
Luca Giordano: Speed, Imitation, and the Art of Fame

Tiffany A. Racco

Jessica N. Richardson
Research Associate, 2011–2012
Medieval Images in the Early Modern City

Jessica N. Richardson

Fredo Rivera, Duke University
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2011–2013
Revolutionizing Modernities: Visualizing Utopia in 1960s Havana, Cuba

Fredo Rivera

Mary Roberts, University of Sydney
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Islamic Art, Museology, and Transcultural Artist-Dealer Networks, 1850–1910

Mary Roberts

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

Alla Rosenfeld

D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 23–July 1, 2011
Imagining the Alhambra

D. Fairchild Ruggles

Carlos Sambricio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2013
A History of the History of Spanish Architecture

Carlos Sambricio

Alexa Kristen Sand, Utah State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2015
Moral Vision: La Somme le roi, 1279–1500

Alexa Kristen Sand

Rachel Saunders, Harvard University
Ittleson Fellow, 2013–2015
The Illustrated Life of Xuanzang: Poetry, Painting, and Pilgrimage in Medieval Japan

Rachel Saunders

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

Kimberly Schenck

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

Monika Schmitter

Anna Lise Seastrand, Columbia University
Ittleson Fellow, 2010–2012
Image and Text in Early Modern South Indian Murals

Anna Lise Seastrand

Eiren L. Shea, University of Pennsylvania
Ittleson Fellow, 2014–2016
Fashioning Mongol Identity in China (1200–1350)

Eiren L. Shea

Susan L. Siegfried, University of Michigan
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Temporalities of Fashion and Costume in Nineteenth-Century Art

Susan L. Siegfried

Nathaniel Silver
Research Associate, 2013–2014
The Place of the Predella in the Renaissance

Nathaniel Silver

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

Emma R. Silverman

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

Lucia Simonato

Jennifer M. S. Stager, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2009–2012
Color, Matter, Vision, and Space: Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Polychromy

Jennifer M. S. Stager

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

Nancy S. Steinhardt

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

Jessica Stevenson Stewart

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

Zachary Stewart

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

Alice Isabella Sullivan

Nicola Paxton Sullo, Yale University
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2014–2015
The Art of Memory in Byzantium during the Later Middle Ages

Nicola Paxton Sullo

Maggie Taft
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

Phil Taylor

James Merle Thomas, Stanford University
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2012–2014
The Administration of Space: Habitability and Abstraction during the Apollo Era

James Merle Thomas

Patrizia Tosini, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale
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

Patrizia Tosini

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

Tran Ky Phuong

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

Shigebumi Tsuji

Noa Turel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2011–2012
Life to Likeness: Painting and Spectacle au vif in the Burgundian State

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

James Grantham Turner

Ginette Vagenheim, Université de Rouen–Normandie
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, June 15–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

Ginette Vagenheim

Hérica Valladares, Baltimore
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2014
On Roman Tenderness: Painting and Poetry in the Early Empire

Hérica Valladares

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

Ivo van der Graaff

Oscar E. Vázquez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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

Oscar E. Vázquez

Susan Wager, Columbia University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2012–2014
Boucher’s Bijoux: Luxury Reproductions in the Age of Enlightenment

Susan Wager

Matthias Weniger, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2015
The Sculpture Collector Benoit Oppenheim (1842–1931)

Matthias Weniger

Iain Boyd Whyte, University of Edinburgh
Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2015–2016
Survey and Anthology

Iain Boyd Whyte

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

Mabel O. Wilson

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

Arnold Witte

Kelli Wood, University of Chicago
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2014–2016
The Art of Play: Games in Early Modern Italy

Kelli Wood

Reva Wolf, State University of New York at New Paltz
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017
Goya and Freemasonry

Reva Wolf

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

Nicole L. Woods

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

Xin Wu

Oliver Wunsch, Harvard University
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2016–2017
Painting Against Time: The Decaying Image in the French Enlightenment

Oliver Wunsch

Elaine Y. Yau, University of California, Berkeley
Wyeth Fellow, 2012–2014
Sister Gertrude Morgan’s Material Performances and the Sensory Cultures in New Orleans, 1960–1983

Elaine Y. Yau

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

Andrés Mario Zervigón