Books and Exhibition Catalogues

Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age By Shelley Perlove and Larry Silver, Penn State University Press 512 pages | 47 color/198 b&w illustrations

Renaissance, Reform, Reflections in the Age of Dürer, Bruegel and Rembrandt. Dearborn, MI: University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1994.

Bernini and the Idealization of Death: The "Blessed Ludovica Albertoni" and the Altieri Chapel, Penn State University Press 156 pages | 60 illustrations | 8.25 x 11 | 1990

Impressions of Faith: Rembrandt’s Biblical Etchings. University of Michigan Press, 1989.

Piranesi's Views of Rome. Dearborn, MI: University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1986.

ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS:

“The Jerusalem Temple: Rembrandt’s Faith and Fantasy,” to appear in Faith and Fantasy in the Early Modern World, published by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, in press.

Book reviews of “Marieke de Winkel, Fashion and Fancy. Dress and Meaning in Rembrandt’s Paintings, and Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt and the Female Nude,”Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books (April 2009), vol. 26, no.1, p. 35.

Book reviews of Gary Schwartz, The Rembrandt Book; Mirjam Alexander-Knotter, Jasper Hillegers, and Edward van Voolen, The Jewish Rembrandt. The Myth Unravelled; Laurence Sigal-Klagsbald and Alexis Merle du Bourg, Rembrandt et la Nouvelle Jérusalem. Juifs et Chrétiens à Amsterdam au Siècle D’Or d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books (November 2008), vol. 25, pp. 24-25.

 

"Identity and Exile in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: A Portrait of Menasseh ben Israel by Salom Italia," in The Low Countries: Crossroads of Cultures edited by Ton Broos, Margriet Lacy, and Tom Shannon. Münster, Nodus, (2006),11-32.

"Scorched in the Wilderness: A Portrait of the Venetian Rabbi Leone Modena," in Multi-Cultural Europe and Cultural Exchange, ed. James Helfers, vol. 12, Turnout, Belgium: Brepols Publications (2005), 49-66.

“Ecstasy of St. Teresa: Gianlorenzo Bernini,” in The Encyclopedia of Sculpture, vol. I, ed. Antonia Bostrőm. New York, London: Fitzroy Dearborn (2003), 158-60.

Book Review of Alison McQueen’s The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France, Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter, November 2004.

Book Review of Catherine Scallen’s Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship, Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter.

Book Review of Michael Zell's Reframing Rembrandt," Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter, vol. 19, no. 2 (November 2002): 32-35.

“Perceptions of Otherness: Critical Responses to the Jews of Rembrandt's Artand Milieu (1836-1945),” Dutch Crossing, vol. 26, (2002), 243-90.

“Power and Religious Authority in Papal Ferrara: Cardinal Serra and Guercino,” Konsthistorisk Tidskrift (Scandinavian University Press), vol. 67, (1999): 19-30.

“Witnessing the Crucifixion; Rembrandt and Donne.” John Donne Journal, vol. 17 (Spring 1998): 89-106.

“Awaiting the Messiah; Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Late Work of Rembrandt.” University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology, vol. 11 (1997): 84-113.

         

"Templum Christianum: Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (1630).” Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol.126, nr.1523 (November 1995): 159-70.

“Images and Ideas in the Age of  Luther and Erasmus.” In Renaissance, Reform, Reflections in the Age of Dürer, Bruegel and Rembrandt. Dearborn, MI: University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1994, 12-29.

"An Irenic Vision of Utopia: Rembrandt's Triumph of Mordecai and the New Jerusalem." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 56 (1993): 38-60. 

"Guercino's Esther before Ahasuerus and Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti, Bishop of Ferrara." Artibus et Historiae, nr.19 (1989): 133-47.

"Piranesi's Tomb of the Scipios of Le Antichità Romane and Marc Antoine Laugier's Primitive Hut."  Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol.112 (1989): 115-120.

         

"Visual Exegesis: Rembrandt's Etchings of the Life of Abraham." In Images of Faith: Rembrandt's Biblical Etchings, Dearborn, MI: University of Michigan-Dearborn, (1989): 11-22.

       

"An Unpublished Medici Gamepiece by Justus Sustermans." The Burlington Magazine, vol.131 (1989): 411-414.

       

"Unearthing the Past: Piranesi's Ruins of Rome," in Piranesi's Views of Rome. Dearborn, MI: University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1986: 11-14.

       

“Androcles and the Lion.” In Whitman, Nathan. Roma Resurgens: Papal Medals in the Age of the Baroque. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Art

Press, 1983, 98-99.  This book includes a lengthy discussion of the stylistic characteristics and historical context of 172 medals representing the output of 24 papacies.     

       

"Bernini's Androclus and the Lion: a Papal Emblem of Alexandrine Rome." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 45 (1982): 287-296.

       

Fifteen essays in Whitman, Nathan. Papal Medals in the Age of the Baroque. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Art Press, 1981.  A sixty-two page handbook of the exhibition (not to be confused with the book published in 1983). 

       

"Dwarf-Performed Entertainment in the Reign of Cosimo II." In Il Teatro Italiano del Rinascimento. Edited by de Panizza Lorch, Maristella. Milan: Edizioni di Communità, 1980, 459-469.

       

"Callot's Admiral Inghirami Presenting Barbary Prisoners to Ferdinand I." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol.58 (1980): 93-101.

       

WORK IN PROGRESS:

“Heads of Jesus in the Art of Rembrandt,” guest curator and writer of essay for the exhibition at Louvre, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the DIA, scheduled for 2012.

Drawings Exhibition: “Baroque Drawings: The Best of Midwest Collections,” Notre Dame, Indiana University and Yale University Museum of Art. Exhibition scheduled for 2012.

Jacob van Ruisdael’s Jewish Cemetery, exhibition at Milwaukee Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.

Book project: Typology in the Sixteenth Century, with Dagmar Eichberger, Heidelberg University, to be published by Brill.

CONFERENCE PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, PUBLIC LECTURES:

       

BY INVITATION/PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:

Public Lecture: “Art and the Da Vinci Code,” Southfield Public Library, October 2006.

Public Lecture: “Images of Esther in Art,” Jewish Community Center, Ann Arbor, October 2006.

Public Lecture: “Challenges for the Restoration of Renaissance Paintings.” Retiree Scholars Program, September 2006, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Invited symposium paper: “Jews and Christians at the Table: Rembrandt’s Supper at Emmaus,” for symposium and exhibition, “Celebrating Rembrandt,” Dartmouth College, April 2006

Invited conference paper: “Thoughts and After-Thoughts in Rembrandt’s Drawings for the Life of Joseph and his Brothers,” Dallas Museum of Art, Midwest Art History Association, March 2006.

Public lecture: “Jacob van Ruisdael’s Painted Landscapes: Art and Culture in the Dutch Golden Age,” University of Michigan Learning in Retirement Distinguished Speaker Series, January 2006.

Public lecture: “Restoring the Art of the Past: But Whose Past is it?” Lecture series, University of Michigan Commons, November 2005.

Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University. “Fact or Fiction: The Many Faces of Rembrandt’s Portraiture.” Public Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, “Pursuits of Pleasure.” February 2004.

University of Michigan-Dearborn. “Art, Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings.” Chancellor’s Alumni Reception. October 2003.

Detroit Institute of Arts. "Comedy and Carnival at the Medici Court," In conjunction with the Medici show. Over 150 attended. March 2003.

*University of Wisconsin, Humanities Institute. Symposium, “Rembrandt and the Jews.” Paper entitled: "Christ of the Supper at Emmaus and the Jews of Amsterdam." December 2002.

*Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. Symposium sponsored by the Rembrandt Research Project. "Rembrandt and Lievens." In conjunction with the exhibition, "The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt," May 2002.

Detroit Institute of Arts. "Prophetic Visions: Jacob van Ruisdael's Jewish Cemetery.” Public lecture sponsored by the Friends of European Art. Dec. 2001.

Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. "Rembrandt and the Millenarian Vision of World Peace." Feb. 2001.

*Case Western Reserve University. "Jacob van Ruisdael's Jewish Cemetery: Jews

and Christians Tread Sacred Ground at Beth Haim (House of Life). In conjunction with the symposium, “Treading Sacred Ground.” April 2000.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Lecture series, “The Jews and the Millennium,” Lecture entitled, “Rembrandt and the Nazis.” January 2000.

Oakland Community College.  Adult Learning Center. “Stilled Moments in the Art of Jan Vermeer.” October 1999.

*Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (NIAS). “Poetry, Painting, and Paradox: Donne, Huygens, and Rembrandt,” Wassenaar, The Netherlands, May 1999.

University of Michigan Museum of Art: “Michelangelo, Melancholia, and the Cult of Genius in the Renaissance,” January 1999.

Dennos Art Museum, Traverse City. Keynote. “Predecessor to the Web: The

Renaissance Print Collection and the Pursuit of Knowledge,” Traverse City, April

1998.

Women’s Commission, University of Michigan-Dearborn “Artemisia Gentileschi: Portrait of a Woman Artist.” December 1997.

Cranbrook Museum of Art. “Interconnections Through Time; Pontormo’s Painting The Visitation (c.1528), and Bill Viola’s Projection Video, The Greeting (1995).” In conjunction with the exhibition, Being and Time: The Art of Projection Video.February 1997.

University of Michigan Museum of Art. “Awaiting the Messiah; Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Late Work of Rembrandt,” Symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, “The Late Work of Rembrandt.”March 1996.       

Provost's Roundtable, University of Michigan-Dearborn. "Renaissance, Reform, Reflections; The Anatomy of a Faculty-Student Research Project," September 1995.

       

University of Michigan-Dearborn. Humanitas,. "If I Forget You, Jerusalem, May I Forget

My Right Hand:" Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting The Destruction of Jerusalem."  March 1995.

       

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Rembrandt, The Millenarians, and the Jews," public lecture given by invited University of Michigan faculty as part of a lecture series, “Jewish History and Culture.” Ann Arbor, November 1994. 

    

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "The Theme of Esther in the Art of the Seventeenth Century," Invited speaker for the Symposium, "Guercino's Esther in Focus." March 1993

       

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor."Rembrandt and the Millenarians," symposium in honor of Nathan Whitman's retirement. April 1990.

       

University of Michigan Alumni Association. "The Art of Forgery,", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. August 1986.

       

University of Michigan-Dearborn. Humanitas. "Bernini's Sculpture of Lodovica Albertoni: Image of the Sublime Death." October 1984.

       

University of Michigan Museum of Art. "Bernini's Androcles and the Lion." November 1981.  

 

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Walters Art Museum, Historians of Netherlandish Art, Chair of session, "The Bible and Spiritual Enlightenment: Defining Dutch and  Flemish Relgious Devotion.", November 2006

Center for Judaic Studies Conference, University of Michigan. “Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext.” Chair and moderator, “Artful Jews? Visual Representation and the Negotiation of Culture. November 2003.

University of Pittsburgh. Midwest Art History Society conference. Chair and moderator, “Baroque North and South.” April 2003.

American Congress of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, "Scorched in the Desert: A Portrait of the Venetian Rabbi Leon Modena." February 2003. Chaired by Diane Wolfthal.

American Association of Netherlandic Studies, Ann Arbor, chaired session and presented a paper, "Identity and Acculturation in 17th-Century Amsterdam: A Rabbinic, Authorial Portrait." June 2002.

College Art Association, "The View from Within," chaired by Diane Wolfthal. "Shalom d'Italia's Engraved Portrait (1642) of Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel: Jewish Identity and Christian Hebraism in 17thc. Amsterdam." 2002.

Historians of Netherlandish Art,  Antwerp, 2002. "Jan Lievens' Etched Portrait of the Sephardic Physician, Ephraim Bueno: The Flemish-Inspired Portrait in Amsterdam."

University of Minnesota. Midwest Art History Society conference, "Paschal Lamb and the Eucharistic Bread on the Same Table: Rembrandt's Supper at Emmaus of 1648." April 2001.

College Art Association. “Purged of All Grosser Substance: Rembrandt’s

Jews 1800-1945.” For the session, “Reception and the Art  of the Netherlands.”

chaired by Amy Golahny. February 2000.

Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Historians of Netherlandish Art conference. “Word and Image: The Language of Rembrandt,” March 1998.

John Donne Conference, Gulfport, Mississippi. “Witnessing the Crucifixion: Rembrandt’s The Raising and The Descent from the Cross and Constantijn Huygens’ Translation of John Donne’s Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward.”. February 1998.

       

Washington University, St. Louis. Midwest Art History Society, "Templum Christianum: Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem." March 1995.

       

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Midwest Art History Society. "Rembrandt's Triumph of Mordecai and the Temple of Jerusalem," March 1992.    

       

University of Minnesota. "Guercino's Esther before Ahasuerus and Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti," Midwest Art History Society, April 1988.

       

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Baroque Sessions I, II, Chair and Moderator, Midwest Art History Society, March 1987.

       

Northwestern University. "The Gesture of Love in Bernini's Lodovica Albertoni," Midwest Art History Society, April 1986.

       

Notre Dame University. "Justus Sustermans and the Florentine Game-Piece," Midwest Art History Society, March 1981. 

     

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "A Newly Discovered Painting by Justus Sustermans." Colloquium of the Tappan Association, November 1980.

       

University of Kansas. "Theatrical Sources for Jacques Callot's Freakish Figures," Midwest Art History Society. April 1979.

       

Columbia University. International Congress on Renaissance Theater in Northern Italy: the Court and the City. "Dwarf-Performed Entertainment at the Court of Cosimo II."  October 1978.

       

Case Western Reserve University. Ohio Area Symposium "Jacques Callot and the Drawings and Prints of Dwarfs called the Gobbi." April 1978.

       

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne. "A Drawing by Jacques Callot in the Detroit Institute of Arts. A Study of Sources."  Midwest Art History Society, March 1978.

       

Ohio State University."Jacques Callot: an Exposition of the Artist's Working Methods." Ohio Area Symposium. October 1977.

EXHIBITIONS:

“Master Drawings in Midwest Collections.” 125 drawings, Co-curated with George Keyes, Chief Curator of European Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Snite Museum, Notre Dame University, Indiana University Art Museum, and possibly Yale Art Gallery.

       

"Renaissance, Reform, Reflections in the Age of Dürer, Bruegel and Rembrandt." Conceived and curated the exhibition. Mardigian Library, University of Michigan-Dearborn. April 1994.

       

"Images of Faith: Rembrandt's Biblical Etchings." Conceived and curated the exhibition. Mardigian Library, University of Michigan-Dearborn. February 1989.

       

"Piranesi's Views of Rome.”  Conceived and curated the exhibition. Mardigian Library, The University of Michigan-Dearborn. February 1986.

       

"Albrecht Dürer: Selected Woodcuts."  Conceived and curated the exhibition. Mardigian Library, The University of Michigan-Dearborn. March 1985.

       

"Master Paintings from the Hermitage and the State Russian Museum."  The Detroit Institute of Arts.  Assisted in planning, installation and the writing of didactic material. March 1975.

       

"The Age of Revolution: French Painting 1774-1830."  The Detroit Institute of Arts. Assisted in planning, installation and the writing of didactic materials. December 1975.

HONORS, AWARDS, OFFICES:

Appointed Chair by the President of the College Art Association; Committee on Awards Policies. Wrote the Guidelines which were approved February 2003. 2002-present.

Appointed Chair, College Art Association Teaching of Art History Award Committee, 2001-3

Elected Offices, Midwest Art History Society:

President, 1999-02;

Board member (01-present);

Secretary.  1996-99;

Elected Co-Editor for the Corpus of Baroque Drawings in Midwest     Collections, 1996-present;

Nominating Committee, 1996-98.  

   

Conference Chair of Programs and Sessions: Midwest Art History Society’s 26th Annual Conference, Detroit, 248 attendees and 18 sessions. March 18-20, 1998.

      

Gustav Arlt Humanities Book Award, for the book, Bernini and the Idealization of Death: Study of the Ludovica Albertoni and the Alitieri Chapel. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. Finalist in 1992.

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Michigan-Dearborn. Awarded at Honors Convocation, December 1989.

Distinguished Faculty Teaching and Research Award, State Association of Governing Boards, State of Michigan. Awarded in East Lansing, Michigan State University, May 1990.

       

Chancellor's Best in Class Award for Service to the University. Awarded for four years of service to the Scholars Incentive Program, a program designed to help minority high school students prepare for college. Awarded 1989.

GRANTS:

Summer Research Grant, Campus Grant, Spring 2003.

Research Assistance Grant, Campus Grant, Spring 2003.

Travel Grant, Campus Grant, travel to Antwerp to give a paper. Winter 2002.

UM-D Campus Grant, for slides for the new Renaissance Florence course. Winter 2001.

Educational Enhancement Award. Campus Grant. Slides for new course, Art History 454, Rembrandt: Master Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. Fall 1999.

Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Michigan. Research project: “Italian and Spanish Baroque Drawings in Midwest Collections.” 1997-1998.

Campus Grant for Faculty Research, University of Michigan-Dearborn. Research project: “Italian and Spanish Baroque Drawings in Midwest Collections.” 1996-97.

NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship. Research project: “Rembrandt and the Millenarians,” Spring/Summer 1994.

       

NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant. Travel to Switzerland and Holland to consult city archives, May 1994.

       

University of Michigan-Dearborn, travel grant to consult manuscripts in New York

Public Library, April 1994.

       

Rackham Faculty Fellowship and Research Grant. Project: “Rembrandt and the Christian Hebraists,” 1993.

Campus Grants Research Award, University of Michigan-Dearborn. Project: “Rembrandt and the Millenarians.” 1991.

Horace H. Rackham Publication Subvention Grant for the book, Bernini and the

Idealization of Death: Study of the Ludovica Albertoni and the Altieri Chapel,

awarded 1989.

Educational Enhancement Award, University of Michigan-Dearborn. Project:

“Rembrandt's Biblical Etchings,”research published in Images of Faith: Rembrandt's Biblical Etchings (1989). Awarded 1988.

       

Campus Research Grant, University of Michigan-Dearborn, $500 for research expenses.  Project: “Guercino's Painting of Queen Esther, “ research published in Artibus et Historiae, 1989. Awarded 1987.

       

Horace H. Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, $5000 travel grant to go to Rome, Leningrad, and London to do research for the book, Bernini and the Idealization of Death (published in 1990). Awarded 1986.

       

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, $12,000 for dissertation research, 1982-83.