DAVID
CAST
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Personal Statement: Professor
of History of Art David Cast is a specialist in Renaissance
art and in the history of the classical tradition, from Botticelli
and Palladio to Inigo Jones and Hawksmoor and on to the traditions
of life drawing and the academies in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. His work has been supported with fellowships from the American
Philosophical Society and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Beyond his book, The Calumny of Apelles: a Study in the Humanist
Tradition, Yale University Press, 1981, his work has been published
in European and American journals, Simiolus, The Burlington
Magazine, Word & Image, the Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians, in many encyclopedias, including
the Macmillan Dictionary of Art and the International Dictionary
of Architects and Architecture, and in the collective volumes
on Renaissance Humanism: Foundation, Forms and Legacy, 1988,
and Giorgio Vasari: Art, Literature and History at the Medici Court,
1998.
His
work in progress includes a study of the historian and artist Giorgio
Vasari, a book on the English 18th-century architect Nicholas Hawksmoor
and a further examination of English Realist painting, the subject
of his most recent publication, "Representing Reality: G. E.
Moore, Tonks, Coldstream, Victor Pasmore and others", in Word
& Image (2000). He teaches courses on mannerism and Vasari
at the graduate level and undergraduate classes on the classical tradition,
London (his home town), Palladio, Frescos and public art, and Renaissance
painting. Since coming to the department, he has supervised seven
M.A. theses and 11 dissertations.
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