Field-Of-Study: Fine Arts Research

Thomas Crow is Rosalie Solow Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.  He was previously Director of the Getty Research Institute, Robert Lehman Professor Art History at Yale, and Chair of Art History at Sussex University in the U.K.  His teaching includes later modern and contemporary art along with French art from

In the book project that will occupy most of my time during my Guggenheim Fellowship term, Skins: The Metamorphoses of John Singer Sargent, I use medical metaphors to account for what it is exactly that Sargent does with and through all those seemingly mobile layers of color he painted, and why it matters.  I argue

David A. Scott is a Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Founding Director (2003–2011) of the UCLA/Getty Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation Program. After graduating from the University of Reading, UK, with an honors B.S. degree in chemistry, he worked in industry for a while before returning to take an

I am a professor of art at Williams College.  I teach graduate and undergraduate courses on Greek art and the history of art.  For the undergraduate college, I also teach the methodology of the history of art to majors in art history.  In my teaching and research, I focus on the intersection between Greek art

Lisa Saltzman is Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. She received her B.A. from Princeton in 1988 and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1994.  In 2002-03, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and in 2012-13 she will be a fellow at the Clark Art Institute.  At Bryn

One of the world’s leading experts on late antique and medieval Coptic art, Elizabeth S. Bolman is the initiator and director of a wall-painting conservation project at the Red Monastery basilica, the principal part of the large monastic federation in Upper Egypt founded in the late fourth or fifth century CE and that was active

A specialist in European medieval art and an eminent proponent and historian of the Warburgian school, Elizabeth Sears received a B.A. from Duke University (1974, summa cum laude) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University (1982). She came to prominence with her doctoral dissertation, entitled The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life

Gregory Levine is Associate Professor of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures in the Department of History of Art and a member of the Groups in Buddhist Studies and Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His first book, Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery (2005), was a