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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

**Tiffany A. Racco**Research Associate, 2017–2018*Luca Giordano: Speed, Imitation, and the Art of Fame***Jessica N. Richardson**Research Associate, 2011–2012***Medieval Images in the Early Modern City*

**Fredo Rivera** [Duke University]Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2011–2013*Revolutionizing Modernities: Visualizing Utopia in 1960s Havana, Cuba*

**Mary Roberts**, University of SydneyWilliam C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2014–2015*Islamic Art, Museology, and Transcultural Artist-Dealer Networks, 1850–1910*

**Alla Rosenfeld**, 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*

**D. Fairchild Ruggles**, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 23–July 1, 2011*Imagining the Alhambra*

**Carlos Sambricio**, Universidad Politécnica de MadridAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2013*A History of the History of Spanish Architecture*

**Alexa Kristen Sand**, Utah State UniversityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1, 2015–June 30, 2015*Moral Vision:*La Somme le roi*, 1279–1500***Rachel Saunders** [Harvard University]Ittleson Fellow, 2013–2015The Illustrated Life of Xuanzang*: Poetry, Painting, and Pilgrimage in Medieval Japan***Kimberly Schenck**, 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***Monika Schmitter**, 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*****

**Guendalina Serafinelli**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***Eiren L. Shea**[University of Pennsylvania]Ittleson Fellow, 2014–2016*Fashioning Mongol Identity in China (1200–1350)***Susan L. Siegfried,** University of MichiganPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2014–2015*Temporalities of Fashion and Costume in Nineteenth-Century Art*

**Nathaniel Silver**Research Associate, 2013–2014*******The Place of the Predella in the Renaissance***Emma R. Silverman** [University of California, Berkeley]Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2017–2018*****From Eyesore to Icon: The Watts Towers and Modernism in the Margins*****Lucia Simonato**, 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*

**Anna Lise Seastrand** [Columbia University]Ittleson Fellow, 2010–2012*Image and Text in Early Modern South Indian Murals*

**Jennifer M. S. Stager** [University of California, Berkeley]Paul Mellon Fellow, 2009–2012*Color, Matter, Vision, and Space: Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Polychromy*****Łukasz Stanek**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***Nancy S. Steinhardt**, University of PennsylvaniaAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017*****The Borders of Chinese Architecture: Balhae and Jurchen*****Jessica Stevenson Stewart** [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*

**Zachary Stewart**[Columbia University]Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2014–2015*The Integrated Interior: Parish Church Architecture in Eastern England, c. 1330–c. 1550* 

**Alice Isabella Sullivan** [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***Nicola Paxton Sullo** [Yale University]Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2014–2015*The Art of Memory in Byzantium during the Later Middles Ages*

**Maggie Taft**[University of Chicago]Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2011–2012*Making Danish Modern, 1945–1960*

**Phil Taylor** [Princeton University]David E. Finley Fellow, 2014–2017*Raoul Ubac's Photographic Surrealism***James Merle Thomas** [Stanford University]Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2012–2014*The Administration of Space: Habitability and Abstraction during the Apollo Era*

**Silvia Tita**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***Patrizia Tosini**, 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: New Discoveries and Considerations on Practice*

**Tran Ky Phuong**, 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*****Shigebumi Tsuji**, Osaka UniversityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2017*****The Cosmological Background of Monumental Representation of Christophany Before the Iconoclasm*****Noa Turel** [University of California, Santa Barbara]Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2011–2012***Life to Likeness: Painting and Spectacle*auvif*in the Burgundian State***James Grantham Turner**, 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*

**Ginette Vagenheim**, Université de Rouen–NormandiePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow / Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, June 15, 2015–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*****Hérica Valladares**, BaltimorePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, spring 2014*On Roman Tenderness: Painting and Poetry in the Early Empire*

**Ivo van der Graaff**Research Associate, 2014–2015*Architecture and Urbanism on the Ancient Bay of Naples*****Research Associate, 2015–2016*The Ancient Bay of Naples***Oscar E. Vázquez**, 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*

**Susan Wager** [Columbia University]Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2012–2014*Boucher’s Bijoux: Luxury Reproductions in the Age of Enlightenment *

**Matthias Weniger**, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, MunichPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2015*****The Sculpture Collector Benoit Oppenheim (1842–1931)***Stephen Hart Whiteman**A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014*Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)*

A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014*Vocabularies of Culture: The Landscape of Multiethnic Emperorship in the Early Qing Dynasty (1661–1722)*****

**Iain Boyd Whyte**, University of EdinburghSamuel H. Kress Professor, 2015–2016*****Survey and Anthology***Leslie Wilson** [University of Chicago]Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2015–2017*Past Black and White: The Color of Photography in South Africa, 1994–2004***Mabel O. Wilson**, Columbia UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2015–2016*Building Race and Nation: How Slavery Influenced the Civic Architecture of Antebellum America***Arnold Witte**, 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*

**Kelli Wood** [University of Chicago]Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2014–2016*The Art of Play: Games in Early Modern Italy***Reva Wolf**, State University of New York at New PaltzAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 15–August 15, 2017*****Goya and Freemasonry***Maria Cristina Wolff de Carvalho**, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São PauloPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2011–2012*The Landscape Art of William John Burchell (1781–1863)***Nicole L. Woods**, 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*****Xin Wu**, 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* 

**Oliver Wunsch** [Harvard University]Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow, 2016–2017*Painting Against Time: The Decaying Image in the French Enlightenment***Elaine Y. Yau** [University of California, Berkeley]Wyeth Fellow, 2012–2014*Sister Gertrude Morgan’s Material Performances and the Sensory Cultures in New Orleans, 1960‒1983*

**Andrés Mario Zervigón**, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2013–2014Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung*(The Worker's Illustrated Magazine), 1921–1938: A History of Germany's Other Avant-Garde*

**Yanfei Zhu**[The Ohio State University]Ittleson Fellow, 2011–2013*Transtemporal and Cross-Border Alignment: The Redisicovery of*Yimin *Ink Painting in Modern China, 1900–1949*

**Benjamin Zweig**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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