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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.**

A — E | F — J | K — Q | R — Z

**Yuka Kadoi**, University of EdinburghAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2015*****Inventing Persian Art***Subhashini Kaligotla** [Columbia University]Ittleson Fellow, 2012–2014*Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Reimagining the Sacred Architecture of India’s Deccan Region*****

**Hagi Kenaan**, Tel Aviv UniversityWilliam C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2016–2017*****The Origins of Photography and the Future of the Image***Kristopher W. Kersey** [University of California, Berkeley]Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2012–2014*Emperor GoShirakawa and the Image of Classical Japan*

**Michael Kiene**, Universität zu KölnPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2013*Jacques-Ignace Hittorff: The Discovery of Polychromy in the Ancient Architecture of Sicily and the Consequences for Contemporary Art and Archaeology in France*****

**Miri Kim** [Princeton University]Wyeth Fellow, 2013–2015*"Right Matter in the Right Place": The Paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder***David Young Kim**, University of PennsylvaniaPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2016–2017 *The Groundwork of Painting: Background, Materiality, and Composition in Italian Renaissance Art***Dale Kinney**, Bryn Mawr College (emerita)Samuel H. Kress Professor, 2016–2017*****Santa Maria in Trastevere: The Life of a Medieval Building in Early Modern Rome***Amy Helene Kirschke**, University of North Carolina WilmingtonAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016*****Black Ink: Romare Bearden's Political Cartoons***Karen Koehler**, Hampshire CollegePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017*Walter Gropius and Berlin: Distraction, Destruction, and the Meaning of Home***Stefan Krause**, Kunsthistorisches Museum, ViennaPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 4–December 19, 2014Freydal*, the Tournament Book of Emperor Maximilian I: The Washington Manuscript*

**Thomas Kren**, J. Paul Getty Museum, emeritusEdmond J Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2016*The Nude in the Renaissance in Europe, 1400–1530***Michael Kubo** [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]Wyeth Fellow, 2015–2017*Architecture Incorporated: Collaboration, Authorship, and Anonymity in Postwar Modernism***Vladimir Kulić**, Florida Atlantic UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2015*Architecture's Expanded Field: Bogdan Bogdanović and an Alternative Genealogy of Postmodernism***Ulf Küster**, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / BaselAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 5–February 28, 2014*Courbet’s*Amphibologie

**Karen Lang**, University of WarwickAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016*****Philip Guston and the Allegory of Painting***Lara Langer**Research Associate, 2016–2017*Andrea Sansovino and the Question of Modernism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art*****Research Associate, 2017–2018*Raphael, Sculpture, and the Chigi Pyramid Tombs***Mireille Lee**, Vanderbilt UniversityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 1, 2014*The Life of an Ancient Greek Mirror*

**Sonya S. Lee**, University of Southern CaliforniaPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2011–2012*Between Culture and Nature: Cave Temples of Sichuan*

**Melissa Beck Lemke**, National Gallery of ArtAilsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial Fellow, 2015–2016*****“No witchery of the camera”: Clarence Kennedy as Photographer, Art Historian, and Innovator***Antoinette Le Normand-Romain**Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, fall 2016 / spring 2017*****The Tale of a Sculpture: Rodin's*Statuette of a Woman**Stephanie C. Leone**, Boston CollegePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 4–December 31, 2014*The Arts in Baroque Rome under Pope Innocent X Pamphilj and His Family (1644–1672) *

**Jacqueline Lichtenstein**, Université Paris-SorbonneEdmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, fall 2011*How to Talk about Art: Differences and Limits of Art Theory, Art Criticism, Art History, and Aesthetics***Estelle Lingo**, University of Washington, SeattleSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2011–2012*Francesco Mochi and the Edge of Tradition*

Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2016–2018*Mochi's Edge and Bernini's Baroque, Caravaggio's Religious Art, and the Grand Tour from the Italian Perspective*

Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2016–2018*Unbelievable: Rethinking Caravaggio's Religious Art***Stuart Lingo**, University of Washington, SeattleSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2012–2013*Bronzino's Bodies: Fortunes of the Ideal Nude in an Age of Reform*

**Lihong Liu**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2016*The Real Scene: Painting and Place in China, 1450–1550*****A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2016 *****The Real Scene: Painting, Life, and Place in China, 1450–1550***Fernando Loffredo**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015–2017*****A Corsair History of Sculpture: Abducting Italian Fountains in the Early Modern Mediterranean*****A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015–2017*A Poetic Urgency: Sculpture and Poetry in Dialogue in the Early Modern World*****Di Yin Lu** [Harvard University]Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2010–2012*Seizing Civilization: Antiquities in Shanghai's Custody, 1949–1996*

**David M. Lubin**, Wake Forest UniversityWilliam C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2013–2014*Grand Illusions*

**Eleonora Luciano**, National Gallery of ArtAilsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial Fellow, February 1–March 31 and May 1–June 30, 2014*More Than a Masterpiece: A Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga*****

**María Lumbreras** [Johns Hopkins University]David E. Finley Fellow, 2015–2018*"The Certainty of Likeness": Portraits and the Making of Artistic Knowledge in Early Modern Spain*

**Caroline Maniaque-Benton**, Université Paris-Est / École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-MalaquaisPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 30, 2012*Sources of the Alternative Architecture Movement***Frank Martin**, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Freie Universität BerlinScholar in Residence, September 1–November 9, 2012*Antique Portraits in the Dresden Sculpture Collection: Their Use and Reuse in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries*

**Louisa C. Matthew**,****Union College, SchenectadyAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 29, 2012*Colors and Colorants in Renaissance Venice*

**Catherine Maumi**, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de GrenoblePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2012*Victor Gruen: A New Architecture for Our Urban Environment***Leo G. Mazow**, University of Arkansas in FayettevillePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2015*Hopper's Hotels***Michelle McCoy** [University of California, Berkeley]Ittleson Fellow, 2015–2017*****Astrology and Astronomy in the Art of Liao-Yuan China and Inner Asia***Sarah Blake McHam**, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2014–2015*Rejoice, Lucky Padua, in the Treasure That You Possess *

**Brendan McMahon**[University of Southern California]Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2014–2016*“Where sight is scarcely able to assure”:  Iridescence, Vision, and Belief in the Early Modern Hispanic World***Megan C. McNamee**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2018*Picturing Number: Denumeration and Representation in Europe, c. 1000***** A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2018*Picturing Number in the Central Middle Ages*

**Suzanne van de Meerendonk**[University of California, Santa Barbara]Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2017–2018*****Public Displays of Affection: Negotiating Power and Identity in Ceremonial Receptions in Amsterdam, 1580–1660*****

**Prita Meier**, New York UniversityWilliam C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2017–2018*The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast, 1860 to the Present*****Barbara Mennel**, University of FloridaPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 17–August 15, 2013*Women and Work in Contemporary European Cinema* 

**Angela Miller**, Washington University in St. LouisWilliam C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2015–2016*****Reason, Magic, and Eros in American Art at Mid-Twentieth Century: The Artists and Writers in the Circle of Lincoln Kirstein***Mary Miller**, Yale UniversityPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2015–2016*The Gold Disks of the Sacred Cenote, Chichen Itza***Elizabeth J. Moodey**, Vanderbilt UniversityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 1–April 30, 2018*Conspicuous Abstention: Grisaille in the Art of the Burgundian Netherlands***Raffaella Morselli**, Università di Teramo, ItalyAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, March 3–April 30, 2014*The Artist’s Portfolio: Creating, Producing, and Earning in Bologna in the Seventeenth Century*

**Mary Morton**, National Gallery of ArtAilsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial Fellow, 2016–2017*****Considering Caillebotte***Barbara Mundy**, Fordham UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2015–2016*****The Embodiment of the Word: The Impact of European Books and Print Culture in the New World***Jacqueline Marie Musacchio**, Wellesley CollegeAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 28, 2018*American Women Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy***Mauro Mussolin**, Scuola Normale Superiore di PisaSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2015–2016*****Michelangelo and Paper as Palimpsest***J. Nicholas Napoli**, Pratt InstitutePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, June 10–August 8, 2013*The High Altar of San Martino in Naples: Toward Enlightened Magnificence*****

**Jennifer Nelson** [Yale University]Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2012–2013*Image beyond Likeness: The Chimerism of Early Protestant Visuality***Robert S. Nelson**, Yale UniversitySamuel H. Kress Professor, 2014–2015*Gifts of Presence: Itineraries of a Greek Manuscript from Constantinople to Florence and from the Middles Ages to the Enlightenment*

**Jason E. Nguyen** [Harvard University]Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2015–2016*Constructing Classicism: Architectural Theory, Practice, and Expertise in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris***Lawrence W. Nichols**, Toledo Museum of ArtPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, March 13–May 12, 2017*Frans Hals—The Family Portraits***Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols**, The Walters Art MuseumA. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010–2011*The Pompeian Revival Style in the United States*

**Tom Nichols**, University of GlasgowPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 19, 2016*Jacopo Bassano and the Invention of Localism***Joshua O'Driscoll** [Harvard University]Paul Mellon Fellow, 2011–2014*Image and Inscription in the Painterly Manuscripts from Ottonian Cologne*

**Anna Ottani Cavina**, Fondazione Federico Zeri, Università di BolognaEdmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2014*Landscape Studies: Exploring Visual Representations of Nature*

**Elisabeth Oy-Marra**, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2011***An Annotated Bilingual Edition of Giovan Pietro Bellori's* Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architettimoderni**Nassos Papalexandrou**, University of Texas at AustinPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1, 2015–December 31, 2015*Monsters, Fear, and the Uncanny in the Preclassical Mediterranean***Ann E. Patnaude** [University of Chicago]Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2012–2013*Locating Identity: Mixed Inscriptions and Mulitple Media in Greek Art, c. 675–336 BCE*

**Alison Locke Perchuk**, California State University Channel IslandsPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2016*The Monastery of Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone***Giancarla Periti**, University of TorontoSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2016–2017*****Correggio: Borders, Frames, and the Center of Painting***Rachel E. Perry**, Haifa UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2016*Making Painting Matter: Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, and French Art in the 1940s***Ulrich Pfisterer**, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2013*The "Episteme of Lines’": Printed Drawing Books in Europe, c. 1525‒1625***Catherine Phillips**, St. Petersburg and Norwich, UKPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 2–February 28, 2018*****From Brussels to the Baltic: Count Charles Conbenzl (1712–1770) and His Collection of Drawings***Mark Salber Phillips**, Carleton UniversityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, December 3, 2012–January 31, 2013*Distance and History Painting*

**Lisa Pon**, Southern Methodist UniversityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 4–March 7, 2017*****Raphael and the Renaissance Arts of Collaboration***Amy Powell**, University of California, IrvineSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2011–2012*****The Whitewashed Image: Iconoclasm and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscapes*

**Dominique Poulot**, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, fall 2013*Making Things Precious across the Atlantic: Negotiating Values, Possession, and Knowledge in the Early Development of National Museums in France and America, 1780–1840*

**Emily Pugh**Research Associate, 2011–2012*Architecture and Political Identity: Representing Divided Berlin During the Cold War*****Research Associate, 2012–2013*SoHo, Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer Berg: Art, Activism, and the Urban Built Environment in the Late Cold War*Research Associate, 2013–2014*SoHo, Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer Berg: Activism and Urban Renewal in the Late Cold War***David Pullins** [Harvard University]David E. Finley Fellow, 2012–2015*Cut and Paste: The Mobile Image from Watteau to Robert**** ***

**Jennifer Purtle**, University of TorontoAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2011–2012*Forms of Cosmpolitanism in the Sino-Mogul City***Fatima Quraishi** [New York University]Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2016–2018*Necropolis as Palimpsest: The Cemetery of Makli in Sindh, Pakistan (c. 1380–1660)*

 

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