David Cast

Professor of History of Art and Chair
Ph.D., Columbia University

Telephone: 610-526-5341
Email: dcast@brynmawr.edu
Thomas Hall - Room 230
Office hours: Monday, 2-4pm

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 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.