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Todd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Spanish artist Jusepe Ribera interrogated the media of painting, drawing and etching in the vice-royalty of Naples. This publication project looks at the artist's In Ribera's work and its place in the Spanish Empire. His recourse to classical mythology as well as the depiction...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Beato Antonio Baldinucci (Florence 1665 – Lazio 1717), son of the art historian to the Medici court, was a Jesuit missionary in Lazio, known for his penitential missions, involving carrying a cross, flagellation and bonfires of the vanities. During these internal missions, Baldinucci carried with him a copy of a painting...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The French Huguenot ceramicist Bernard Palissy’s is famous for his casting of living specimens (amphibians and reptiles) for his plates. He was also a prolific writer, revealing his research in salt flats and his observation of fossils in the mountains. Palissy’s Discours admirable (1580) is a dialogue between Theory and...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Simone Vouet was an emigré artist in Rome in the 1620s before he returned to France and became a major painter in Paris, most notably serving Anne d'Autriche, the mother of Louis III. This research project concerns the artist's production in Rome, most notably his execution...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences