Phillips Academy, Andover, 1961. Yale University, B.A., cum laude 1965. Major in history. Some art history.
Mentions bien et assez bien.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, PhD., Department of Fine Arts, Fogg Museum, 1972. Graduate Prize Ford Foundation Fellowship, Harvard, 1967-72. American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1989. Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1968-69. Assistant Professor of Humanities, Boston University, 1972-73.