Research
Interests:
Late antique art, Medieval Rome, Spolia.
Courses:
Medieval Architecture, Spolia and Time, Medieval Rome.
Recent Publications:
“The Apse Mosaic of Santa Maria in Trastevere”,
in Reading Medieval Images. The Art Historian and the Object, ed.
E. Sears and T.K. Thomas (University of Michigan, 2002) 19-26
“Krautheimer’s Constantine”’, in Ecclesiae
urbis. Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi sulle chiese di
Roma (IV-X secolo), ed. F. Guidobaldi and A. Guiglia Guidobaldi
(Vatican City, 2002) 1-10
“The Horse, the King and the Cuckoo: Medieval Narrations of
the Statue of Marcus Aurelius”, Word & Image 18 (2002) 372-398
"Richard
Krautheimer at the Institute of Fine Arts", Byzantinische
Forschungen 27 (2002) 177-195
"Mosaics at Ravenna",
in Making Medieval Art, ed. P. Lindley (Donington, UK, 2003) 81-89
"Spolia",
in St. Peter's in the Vatican, ed. W. Tronzo (Cambridge University
Press, in press)
"The Nineteen Columns of Jacobus Laurentii",
in Archaeology in Architecture, ed. J.J. Emerick
and D. Deliyannis (Philipp von Zabern, in press)
Personal Statement:
In my research I jump around from ivory diptychs to spoliate
colonnades to liturgical arrangements in Roman churches to
the so-called renovatio
of the twelfth century. The constants are Italy, which is always
the focus of my work, and an interest in how objects encode
cultural assumptions
and values and how we, as belated beholders, should best decode
them. As a teacher I like crafting lectures but I enjoy even
more the one-on-one
deliberations that result in a well-executed paper, thesis or
dissertation. As a really terrible TV character used to say, “I love it when
a plan comes together”.
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