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# Members' Research Reports, 2011–2018

Every member submits a written summary of the independent research accomplished while in residence at the Center, for publication in the annual report, *Center*. 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.**

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**Nicholas Adams**, Vassar CollegePaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 29, 2012*Public Buildings and Hygienic Workrooms: Gunnar Asplund’s Courthouse Extension in Gothenburg, Sweden (1934–1938)*

**Laura Camille Agoston**, Trinity UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 13–August 12, 2011*Ambivalent Sovereign: Michelangelo's Funeral at San Lorenzo*

**Stefan Albl**Research Associate, 2017–2018*Painting in Milan in the Seventeenth Century***Mahvash Alemi**, RomeAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 2013*Safavid Gardens from a Persian Perspective *

**Benjamin Anderson**[Bryn Mawr College]David E. Finley Fellow, 2009–2012*Images of the Ptolemaic Cosmos and the Problem of Early Medieval Art***Robyn Asleson**Research Associate, 2013–2014*The Art Collections and Patronage of Frederick Leyland*****Research Associate, 2014–2015*The Art Collections and Patronage of Frederick Leyland*****Research Associate, 2015–2016*The Art Collections and Patronage of Frederick Leyland***Elizabeth Athens**Research Associate, 2017–2018*****Everywhere the Image of Life: William Hogarth’s Natural History***Martina Bagnoli**, The Walters Art Museum Scholar in Residence, August 13–September 30, 2012*The Five Senses and Medieval Art*

**Renzo Baldasso**, Arizona State UniversityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2016*A New Aesthetics for Print: The Emergence of the Visuality of the Printed Page from Gutenberg to Ratdolt*

**Carmen C. Bambach**, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAndrew W. Mellon Professor, 2010–2012*The Quest for Authenticity in Michelangelo's Drawings*

**Lacey Baradel**, Research Associate, 2016–2017*Picturing Mobility: American Genre Painting and the Spaces of Modernity***Nicola J. Cronin Barham** [University of Chicago]Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2013–2014*Ornament and Artistic Theory in Ancient Rome: An Alternative Classical Paradigm for the Visual Arts*

**Elizabeth Bartman**, New York CityPaul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, January 4–February 29, 2016*****"Manoeuvering the Marble": The Modern Restoration of Ancient Sculpture***Kathryn Barush**Research Associate, 2011–2012***The Visual and Material Cultures of Pilgrimage in Nineteenth-Century Britain*****Research Associate, 2012–2013*The Art and Material Cultures of Pilgrimage*

Research Associate, 2013–2014*The Sacred Journey: Art and Ritual***Oskar Bätschmann**, University of Bern, emeritusSamuel H. Kress Professor, 2012–2013*Last Works *

**Basile Baudez**, Millon Architectural History Guest Scholar, June 1–30, 2017*Between Original Drawing and Printed Multiples, Tracing Paper as Commodity: Antonio Senape's Italian Landscape Albums *

**Caitlin Beach**[Columbia University]Wyeth Fellow, 2016–2018*Sculpture, Slavery, and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World*****

**Susanna Berger** [University of Cambridge]Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2011–2013*The Art of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe*

**Mattia Biffis**Research Associate, 2013–2014*The Artist as Intellectual: Giuseppe Salviati and Venetian Mannerism, 1540 – 1575*Research Associate, 2014–2015*The Artist as*Cittadino*: Giuseppe Salviati and Venetian Mannerism, 1540–1575*

Research Associate, 2015–2016***Expatriating the*Maniera:*Rome, Florence, and Venetian Mannerism, 1540–1575*Research Associate, 2016–2017*From Venice to Bologna: Art and Artists in Late Renaissance Italy*

**John R. Blakinger **[Stanford University]Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2014–2016 *****Artist under Technocracy: György Kepes and the Cold War Avant-Garde*****

**Cynthea J. Bogel**, Kyushu UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2016*Sovereign and Cosmology in Two Capitals: An Eighth-Century Buddhist Icon at Yakushiji*

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–July 31, 2017*Cosmoscapes: Interpreting Buddhist Imagery in Ancient Japan*

**Babette Bohn**, Texas Christian UniversitySamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2017–2018*Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna*

**Claudia Bolgia**, University of EdinburghSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2016–2017*The “Long” Trecento: Rome without the Popes, c. 1305–1420***David Bomford**, Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonEdmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2018*Art and Uncertainty: The Limits of Technical Art History*

**Robert Bork**, University of IowaSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2014–2015*The Anti-Gothic Turn: Explaining the Architectural Revolution of circa 1500***Louise Bourdua**, Warwick UniversityAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2013–2014*What Petrarch Saw: Venice Revisited in the Later Middle Ages*

**Monica Bravo**[Brown University]Wyeth Fellow, 2014–2016*****Picturing Greater America: US Modernist Photography and the Mexican Cultural Renaissance, 1920–1945***Magdalene Breidenthal** [Yale University]Paul Mellon Fellow, 2015–2018*Leaving "Heaven on Earth": The Visual Codes of Middle Byzantine Church Exits*

 

**David Alan Brown**, National Gallery of Art, Department of Italian PaintingsAilsa Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Sabbatical Curatorial Fellow, June 1–September 30, 2012*Giovanni Bellini's Last Works*

**Julia Bryan-Wilson**, University of California, BerkeleyAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 1–February 28, 2017*Louise Nevelson's Modernist Drag*

**Louise M. Burkhart**, University at Albany, State University of New YorkPaul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2012–2013*Catechetical Pictography and the Art of Being Indian in Late-Colonial New Spain*

**Anne Burkus-Chasson**, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2017–2018*Engaging Artifice: Chen Hongshou and the Illustrated Book*

**Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen** [Princeton University]David E. Finley Fellow, 2011–2014*The Disposition of Figures in Modern Art, 1886‒1912*

**Dana E. Byrd** [Yale University]Wyeth Fellow, 2010–2012*Rethinking the South Carolina Sea Island Plantation, 1861–1877*

**Andrianna Campbell**[Graduate Center of the City University of New York]Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2016–2017*Norman Lewis: Linearity, Pedagogy, and Politics in His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964 *

**Allison Caplan** [Tulane University]Ittleson Fellow, 2016–2018*Their Flickering Creations: Value, Appearance, and Surface in Nahua Precious Art*

**Mario Carpo**, Yale University / École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris–La VilletteAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2014*Leon Battista Alberti's*On Sculpture*: A Study in Early Modern Science and Art*

**Manuel Castiñeiras**, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2017–2018*Shifting Identities and Traveling Objects: Artistic Encounters with Byzantium during the Expansion of the Crown of Aragon*

**Lynn Catterson**, New York CityAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, January 5–February 28, 2015*Stefano Bardini: Forming the Canon of Fifteenth-Century Italian Sculpture***Esther Chadwick**[Yale University]Paul Mellon Fellow, 2013–2016*****The Radical Print: British Art and Graphic Experiment in the Paper Age***Grace Chuang** [New York University]Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2016–2018*The Furniture of Bernard Vanrisamburgh II, Master Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth-Century Paris*

**Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi**, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, RomeAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, September 1–October 31, 2017*The Venetian Doge Leonardo Donà and Architecture*

**Lisa Claypool**, University of AlbertaAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2016–2017*Hearing Color: Yu Fei'an's Pigeon Paintings in Modern Beijing*

**S. Hollis Clayson**, Northwestern UniversitySamuel H. Kress Professor, 2013–2014*Electric Paris: Episodes from the Visual Culture of the City of Light in the Era of Thomas Edison*****Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, November 1–December 31, 2017*The Inescapability of the Eiffel Tower*****

**Lynne Cooke**, New York CityAndrew W. Mellon Professor, 2012–2014*Outside In: A Study of the Interface Between Mainstream and Self-Taught Art in the United States in the Twentieth Century*Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2012–2014*****Outside In: A Study of the Interface Between Mainstream and Self-Taught Art in the United States in the Twentieth Century*****

**Nicola Courtright**, Amherst CollegeAilsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2018*Art and Queenly Authority: The Creation of Spaces for Marie de' Medici*

**Kate Cowcher**[Stanford University]Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2013–2015*Between Revolutionary Motherland and Death: Art and Visual Culture in Socialist Ethiopia***Catherine Damman** [Columbia University]Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2016–2018*****Uneliable Narrators: Laurie Anderson, Julia Heyward, and Jill Kroesen Perform the 1970s*

**Thierry de Duve**, Université Lille 3 (emeritus)William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, 2012–2013***Duchamp's Message, Manet's Testatment, Broodthaers' Lesson*

**C. D. Dickerson III**, Kimbell Art MuseumAilsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, June 1–August 8, 2014*Mystery and Reality: The Brothers Le Nain*

**Jason Di Resta**Samuel H. Kress Fellow [The Johns Hopkins University], 2010–2012*Pordenone and the Translocal Alternative*Research Associate, 2012–2013*Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Artistic Ambition and the Challenge of the Local, 1515–1539*

**Nikolas Drosos**[The Graduate Center, City University of New York]Twenty- Four- Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2013–2015*Synthesis of Art and Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1954–1958***Nina L. Dubin**, University of Illinois at ChicagoSamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2013–2014*Love, Trust, and Risk: Painting the "Papered Century"*

**Anne Dunlop**, Tulane UniversitySamuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, 2012–2013*Castagno’s Crime: Andrea del Castagno and Quattrocento Painting*

**Seth Estrin** [University of California, Berkeley]Paul Mellon Fellow, 2014–2017*Objects of Pity: Art and Emotion in Archaic and Classical Greece*******

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