faculty interest info : history of art

Bissell, R. Ward. Professor. Scholarly interests include Baroque painting and sculpture of Italy and Spain, with a special focus on the Caravaggesque tradition and on the interpretation of Baroque pictures of non-religious subject matter. Publications include Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art: Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonné (1999) and Orazio Gentileschi and the Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting (1981).

Brusati, Celeste. Associate Professor, History of Art and Program in Women's Studies. Scholarly interests include Netherlandish pictorial art and theory of the 16th and 17th centuries with a special focus on the imagery and ideologies of the pictorial arts in the Netherlands. Publications include "Natural Artifice and Material Values in Dutch Still Life Painting" (1997), Artifice and Illusion: The Art and Writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1995), Johannes Vermeer (1993), and "Stilled Lives: Self-Portraiture and Self-Reflection in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Still-Life Painting" (1990-91).

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Sears, Elizabeth. Associate Professor. Scholarly interests include European representational arts of the high and later Middle Ages with a special focus on manuscript illumination, religious and secular iconography, and historiography. Publications include "Ivory and Ivory Workers in Medieval Paris" (1997), "Sensory Perception and its Metaphors in the Time of Richard of Fournival" (1993), "The Iconography of Auditory Perception in the Early Middle Ages: On Psalm Illustration and Psalm Exegesis" (1991), and The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (1986).

Simons, Pat. Associate Professor, History of Art and Program in Women's Studies. Scholarly interests include the art of Renaissance Italy with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and interdisciplinary research on the construction of authority and identity. Publications include "Homosociality and Erotics in Italian Renaissance Portraiture" in Portraiture : Facing the Subject (1997), "Alert and Erect: Masculinity in Some Italian Renaissance Portraits of Fathers and Sons" (1994), "(Check)-Mating the Grand Masters: The Gendered, Sexualized Politics of Chess in Renaissance Italy" (1993), and "Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture" (1992).

Thomas, Thelma. Associate Professor, History of Art; Associate Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Associate Dean, Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Scholarly interests include art and architecture of the Byzantine commonwealth with a special focus on cultural, archaeological and historiographic contexts for late Roman and early Byzantine art, especially textiles and funerary arts of early Byzantine Egypt. Publications include Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: Images for this World and the Next (in press), and contributions to the exhibition catalogues "Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts 2nd to 7th Centuries" (1989) and "The Glory of Byzantium" (1997).

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