CURRICULUM
VITAE: DAVID G. WILKINS
(short version)
September 2005
Addresses:
e-mail: dgw2+@pitt.edu
1217 Shady Avenue,
home:
412 361-2648 mobile:
412-916-3243 fax:
412-362-3679
Education:
Positions:
Instructor, 1967-1969
Assistant Professor,
1969-1971
Associate Professor,
1971-1983
Professor, 1983-2004
Director, University Art
Gallery, 1976-1992
Chair, 1989-1992,
1998-2004
Professor Emeritus,
2004-present
Semester-at-Sea Program,
Faculty, Fall 1988
Academic Dean, Fall 1993
Faculty, Fall 2004
Pitt in
Faculty, Fall 1997
Distinguished Visiting
Professor, Winter term, 1988
Sarah Lawrence College-University of Michigan Summer Session in
Florence, Faculty member, 1975-1979, 1981
Fellowships, Honors, Grants:
National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Art History from the
College Art Association, 2005
CAS Dean’s Office Curriculum Development Award ($2500), 1994
Hewlitt Grants Award ($2000),
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award,
Chancellor's Undergraduate Teaching Fellowships,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Grants,
William E. Suida Fellowship to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in
Florence, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1966-1967
Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fraternity, 1965
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1964-1965
Professional Associations:
College Art Association
Italian Art Society
Renaissance Society of
National and International Biographies:
Who's Who in
International Who's Who in Education, 1979-
Directory of American Scholars, 1982-
Who's Who in American Art, 1978-
Who's Who in the East, l984-
References:
On Request
Work in progress:
Editor for
Co-author for the Sixth Edition of
Frederick Hartt and David G. Wilkins, History of Italian Renaissance Art, to be
published in 2006
Rural Enlightenment: The Architecture of
Work in press:
The Collins Big Book of Art (general editor), to be released
Publications:
Books:
Revised fifth edition of Art
Past/Art Present, by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff,
Pearson & Prentice-Hall,
Co-author for the Fifth Edition of Frederick Hartt and David G.
Wilkins, History of Italian Renaissance
Art, Prentice-Hall,
The Art of the Duquesne Club,
Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons
of Art in the Italian Renaissance, (Sixteenth-Century Essays & Studies LIV), co-edited by Sheryl
E. Reiss and David G. Wilkins,
Revised fourth edition of Art
Past/Art Present, by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams Inc.,
Revised third edition of Art
Past/Art Present,
by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams Inc.,
The Search for A Patron in the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance, edited by David G. Wilkins and
Rebecca L. Wilkins, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1996
Revising Editor for the Fourth Edition of Frederick Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art,
Prentice-Hall,
Revised second edition of Art
Past/Art Present,
by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and Harry Abrams Inc.,
Art Past/Art Present, by David Wilkins, Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn Linduff,
Prentice-Hall,
A History of the Duquesne
Club (with Mark Brown and Lu Donnelly),
published by the Duquesne Club,
Paintings and Sculpture of the Duquesne
Club, Pittsburgh, published by the Duquesne Club,
Donatello (German edition), with Bonnie A. Bennett,
The Illustrated Bartsch, volume 53 ("Pre-Rembrandt
Etchers"), with Kahren J. (Hellerstedt)
Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of
the Early Trecento ("Outstanding Dissertations in the
Fine Arts"; series editor: Sydney Freedberg), New York, Garland
Publishing, Inc., 1985.
Donatello (American edition), with Bonnie A. Bennett,
Donatello (British edition), with Bonnie A. Bennett,
Encyclopedia and Dictionary Articles:
“Taddeo di Bartolo,” for Medieval
Italy: An Encyclopedia, to be published by Taylor & Francis, 2003
“Nanni di Banco: Four Saints,” and “Andrea
Pisano: Bronze Doors, Florentine
Baptistery,” for The Encyclopedia of
Sculpture (ed. Antonia Boström),
Five entries for The
Dictionary of Art : "Italian Painting 1400-1500,"
"The Architecture of the
Six entries for the International
Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (ed. Randall J. Van Vynckt): "Hagia Sophia, Istanbul" "St.
Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, " “Sinan,” "Lomonosov University,
Moscow," "Cistern, Istanbul," and "Ponte Vecchio,
Florence" (the last two co-authored with Rebecca L. Wilkins), St. James
Press, Chicago, 1993
"John Russell Pope's National Gallery of Art," in Contemporary Masterworks (ed. Colin
Naylor),
"Andrea del Castagno," "Paolo Uccello,"
"Luca della Robbia," in Encyclopedia
of the Renaissance, ed. by Thomas
G. Bergin and Jennifer Speake, London, 1987.
Ten entries on Renaissance and Baroque painters for the Academic American Encyclopedia,
Articles (partial list):
“Opening the Doors to Devotion: Trecento Triptychs and Suggestions
Concerning Images and Domestic Practice in
"In the Defense of Florentine Republicanism: St. Anne and Florentine Art, 1343 to
1575" (with Roger J. Crum), in Interpreting
Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late
Medieval Culture (ed. Kathy Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn),
"Bernardo Daddi's Triptych in the Bigallo," Italian Studies (American Association
for Italian Studies), 6, 1985, 31-41.
"Illustrating The Mirror of Spanish Cruelty," Papers from the 2nd Interdisciplinary
Conference of Netherlandic Art, University Press of
"Donatello's Lost Dovizia for the Mercato Vecchio,
"New Information on Works by David Gilmour Blythe," American Art Journal 13, Autumn, 1981, 85-87.
"The Meaning of Space in Fourteenth-Century Tuscan
Painting," By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought
(ed. L. Jeffrey),
"Early Florentine Frescoes in
"K. Xavier-Roussel's The Window," Carnegie Magazine 52, December, 1978,
17-19.
"Woman as Artist and Patron in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance," in The Roles and Images of Women in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance,
"The American Painting Collection at the Sarah Scaife
Gallery, Carnegie Institute,
"On the Original Appearance of Giotto's Ognissanti
Madonna," Art Quarterly 33,
1970, 1-15. (See also: "Letter to the Editor," Art Quarterly 33, 1970, 450-453).
(reprinted in
Giotto and the World of Early Italian Art:
Giotto, Master Painter and Architect, ed. Andrew Ladis (New York,
1998)
"Maso di Banco and Cenni di Francesco: A
Case of Late Trecento Revival," Burlington
Magazine 111, 1969, 83-84.
Book, Concert, and Exhibition Reviews (partial list):
Review of Alessandro
Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance
On-Line Review of Paul Barolsky, Michelangelo and the Finger of God (
Review of Robert L. McGrath,
Gods in Granite: The Art of the
Review of Earth and Fire:
Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova, ed. Bruce Boucher (
Review of Raphael before
Review of Carlo Ginzburg, The
Enigma of Piero, Renaissance Quarterly 40, 1987, 112-114.
Review of Latrobe's View of
America (ed. by Edward C. Carter II, John C. Van Horne, and Charles E.
Brownell), Western Pennsylvania
Historical Magazine 69, 1986, 63-65.
Review of Bruce Chambers, The World of David
Review of Ronald Lightbown, Botticelli,
Renaissance Quarterly 33, 1980,
100-102.
Review of R. Offner, Studies
in Florentine Painting, B. Berenson, Homeless
Pictures of the Renaissance, and F. Zeri, Diari di lavoro, Art
Quarterly n.s. 1, 1978, 117-121.
Review of Arno Preiser, Das
Enstehen und die Entwicklung der Predella in der italienischen Malerei, Art Bulletin 58, 1976, 435-7.
Review of Ferdinando Bologna, I
pittori alla corte Angioina di Napoli, 1266-1414, e un
riesame dell'arte nell'età fridericiana, Art Bulletin 56, 1974, 127-130.
Review of A. Smart, The
Review of J. Stubblebine, Giotto:
The Arena Chapel Frescoes, and F. Bologna, Novità su Giotto, Art Quarterly 34, 1971, 113-116.
Museum and Gallery Publications (partial list):
“Looking over Herb Olds’ Shoulder,” introduction to an exhibition
catalogue of works by Herb Olds, Butler Institute of American Art,
Reflections and Realities: Selections
from the Collection of Kitty and Harold Ruttenberg (ex. cat., 1983; Introduction, remainder authored by students
under my direction).
"Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown," in The 1983 Hazlett Memorial Awards Exhibition for
the Visual Arts, 8.
The Lowenthal Gift (ex. cat., 1983; Introduction, remainder authored by a student
under my direction).
Art in Nineteenth-Century
Other Publications:
Syllabus on a Disk: History of Art , computer disks prepared to accompany the fourth edition of H.
W. Janson's History of Art, Englewood
Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991.
Study Guide for F.A. 701, Introduction to Art (for an External
Studies Course offered at the
"Foreword" for Discovering
Study Guide for F.A. 709, Understanding Architecture: Focus on
Professional Services:
Local Coordinator of an International Symposium sponsored by the
Historians of Netherlandish Art entitled "International Research
Conference: Tradition and Innovation in the Study of Northern European
Art." Held at the
Evaluation of Programs:
M.A. in the History of Art,
State and National Service:
Field Editor for Early Modern and Southern European Art, caa.reviews (on-line review website for
the College Art Association),
Evaluator for
College Art Association, Member of Distinguished Teaching of Art
History Award Committee, 1992-1995
Museum Advisory Panel,
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Scholars
Program, 1985 Panelist,
Dissertations Directed:
Jennifer Craven, A New Historical View of
the Independent Female Portrait in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painting, 1997
Rosa Prieto Gilday, Depictions of Petrarch’s Triumph of Fame in
Fifteenth-Century Florence, 1996
Janet Marstine, Working History:
Images of Labor and Industry in American Mural Painting, 1893-1903, 1993
Kenneth Neal, A Wise Extravaganza: The Founding of the Carnegie International
Exhibitions, 1895-1901, 1993
Roger J. Crum, Retrospection and Response: The
Elisabeth Roark, Artist as Subject: Images of Artists in American Painting,
1830-1860, 1991
Rina Youngner, Paintings and Graphic Images of Industry in
Nineteenth-Century
Britta Dwyer, Nineteenth-Century Regional Women Artists: The
Lauretta Dimmick, Thomas Crawford, American Sculptor in
Gillian Belnap, The Apartment Buildings
of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., with a Catalogue of his Multiple Residences,
1985.
Mary Pardo, Paolo Pino's Dialogo
di Pittura: A Translation with Commentary (co-directed with David Summers),
1984.
Bernard Schultz, Art and Anatomy in Renaissance
Kahren (Hellerstedt) Arbitman, The
Hurdy-Gurdy from Hieronymous Bosch to Rembrandt, 1981.
Piero Morselli, A Corpus of Tuscan
Pulpits, 1400-1550, 1979.
Bonnie Apgar Bennett, Lippo Memmi: Simone Martini's "Fratello
in arte," 1977.
Augustus C. Brown, Jr., The Eight
Surviving Pellegrinaio Frescoes of the Ospedale della Scala and Their Social
and Visual Sources, 1976.
Lu Berry Wenneker, Giulio Camillo's L'Idea del teatro, 1970.
Dissertations In Preparation:
Azar Rejaie, Renaissance
Self-Portrayal: Embedded Self-Portraits, Artistic Identity, and Vasari's
Program in Both Editions of the Lives
Lectures, Symposia, and the like (partial listing):
“The Architecture of Assimilation: New Hampshire’s Public Library
Buildings and the Social Aspects of Stylistic Choice,” 57th Annual Meeting of
the Society of Architectural Historians, Providence RI, April 16, 2004
“Bringing the Bridgettine Nativity Home,” Annual Meeting of the
Renaissance Society of
“A New Athens on the Merrimack: The Impact of Classical
Architecture on New Hampshire’s Public Library Buildings,” 98th
Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of New England, Brooks School,
March 13, 2004
“Rural Enlightenment: The
Architecture of
“
“The Etruscans and Renaissance Art: The State of the Question,” Renaissance
Society of
“
“Russia after 15 years,” Sewickley Valley Women’s Club, February,
2000
“Edward Hicks’s Peacable Kingdoms,” Pitt Alumni Club of
“Dragons and Gargoyles: Pitt’s Campus Revisited,” Arts and
Sciences Dean’s Open-House,
“Renaissance Art to Nuture
the Christian Soul: Donatello and his
Nineteenth-Century Critics,” CAA annual meeting, Los Angeles, February 1999
“Opening the Doors to Devotion: Trecento Triptychs and Suggestions
Concerning Images and Domestic Practice in
“From Peristroika to Pizza
Hut: Soviet Union/Russia 1985-96,”
“Donatello between the Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Century,”
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
“Special People, Special Places: Tales of a Traveler,”
Twentieth-Century Club of
“Patronage in
“Rejection and Correction in Florentine Art: Toward a History of Audience Response in the
Renaissance,” Renaissance Society of
“Offering an Introduction to Global Material Culture,” at the 83rd
Annual Conference of the College Art Association,
Co-chairperson for panel on "Provincial Art in
Co-chairperson for panel on "Secular Women Patrons in
"Unexpected Brilliance:
The Importance of Color and Additive Materials in Florentine
Quattrocento Sculpture," in the session on "Transformation of the
Object: Changing Alliances between
Connoisseurship and Restoration," at the 81st
Moderator for “What the Sphinx Thinks: Issues in Preservation,” sponsored by
Preservation
“Art and Devotion at Home:
Women, Pictures, and Piety in the Renaissance,” Departmental Colloquium,
"Art, History, and the Nationality Rooms," Women's
International Club,
"Questioning your Environment," Cum Laude Address, The
"Women in Renaissance Art," Ludwig A. Gaiser
Distinguished Lecturer, at