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
Research Associate, 2017–2018
Luca Giordano: Speed, Imitation, and the Art of Fame
Research Associate, 2011–2012
Medieval Images in the Early Modern City
Duke University
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2011–2013
Revolutionizing Modernities: Visualizing Utopia in 1960s Havana, Cuba
University of Sydney
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Islamic Art, Museology, and Transcultural Artist-Dealer Networks, 1850–1910
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
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 23–July 1, 2011
Imagining the Alhambra
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2013
A History of the History of Spanish Architecture
Utah State University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2015
Moral Vision: La Somme le roi, 1279–1500
Harvard University
Ittleson Fellow, 2013–2015
The Illustrated Life of Xuanzang: Poetry, Painting, and Pilgrimage in Medieval Japan
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
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
Columbia University
Ittleson Fellow, 2010–2012
Image and Text in Early Modern South Indian Murals
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
University of Pennsylvania
Ittleson Fellow, 2014–2016
Fashioning Mongol Identity in China (1200–1350)
University of Michigan
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2014–2015
Temporalities of Fashion and Costume in Nineteenth-Century Art
Research Associate, 2013–2014
The Place of the Predella in the Renaissance
University of California, Berkeley
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2017–2018
From Eyesore to Icon: The Watts Towers and Modernism in the Margins
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
University of California, Berkeley
Paul Mellon Fellow, 2009–2012
Color, Matter, Vision, and Space: Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Polychromy
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2012
Henri Lefebvre’s “Vers une architecture de la jouissance” (1973): A Manifesto of Architectural Research
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2013
Henri Lefebvre’s “Vers une architecture de la jouissance” (1973): Toward an Architectural Research
University of Pennsylvania
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017
The Borders of Chinese Architecture: Balhae and Jurchen
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
Columbia University
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2014–2015
The Integrated Interior: Parish Church Architecture in Eastern England, c. 1330–c. 1550
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
Yale University
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2014–2015
The Art of Memory in Byzantium during the Later Middle Ages
Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2012
Making Danish Modern, 1945–1960
Princeton University
David E. Finley Fellow, 2014–2017
Raoul Ubac’s Photographic Surrealism
Stanford University
Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2012–2014
The Administration of Space: Habitability and Abstraction during the Apollo Era
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
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
, 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
, Osaka University
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2017
The Cosmological Background of Monumental Representation of Christophany Before the Iconoclasm
, 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
, 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
, 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
, Baltimore
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2014
On Roman Tenderness: Painting and Poetry in the Early Empire
Research Associate, 2014–2015
Architecture and Urbanism on the Ancient Bay of Naples
Research Associate, 2015–2016
The Ancient Bay of Naples
, 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
, Columbia University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2012–2014
Boucher’s Bijoux: Luxury Reproductions in the Age of Enlightenment
, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2015
The Sculpture Collector Benoit Oppenheim (1842–1931)
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014
Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)
Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)
, University of Edinburgh
Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2015–2016
Survey and Anthology
, Columbia University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2015–2016
Building Race and Nation: How Slavery Influenced the Civic Architecture of Antebellum America
, 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
, University of Chicago
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2014–2016
The Art of Play: Games in Early Modern Italy
, State University of New York at New Paltz
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017
Goya and Freemasonry
, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2011–2012
The Landscape Art of William John Burchell (1781–1863)
, 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
, 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
, Harvard University
Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2016–2017
Painting Against Time: The Decaying Image in the French Enlightenment
, University of California, Berkeley
Wyeth Fellow, 2012–2014
Sister Gertrude Morgan’s Material Performances and the Sensory Cultures in New Orleans, 1960–1983
, 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
, The Ohio State University
Ittleson Fellow, 2011–2013
Transtemporal and Cross-Border Alignment: The Rediscovery of Yimin Ink Painting in Modern China, 1900–1949
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

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