Ph.D. 1975, M.A. 1967, New York University; B.A. 1965, Syracuse University
Research interests:
Medieval Rome and Italy
Reuse, appropriation, assemblage, spolia
Late antique Egypt
Sample courses:
Italian medieval architecture (lecture)
Medieval art in American collections (seminar)
Spolia (seminar)
Assemblage (seminar)
Medieval Rome (seminar)
Selected Works:
Reuse Value. Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine, edited with R. Brilliant, Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2011
“Spolia as Signifiers in Twelfth-Century Rome,” in Spolia in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages – Ideology, Aesthetics and Artistic Practice (Hortus artium Medievalium 17 [2011]) 151-166
“The discourse of columns,” in Rome across Time and Space. Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas c.500-1400, eds. C. Bolgia, R. McKitterick, J. Osborne, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 182-199
“Edilizia di culto cristiano a Roma e in Italia centrale dalla metà del IV al VII secolo,” in Storia dell’architettura italiana da Costantino a Carlo Magno, ed. S. De Blaauw, Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2010, vol. 1, 54-97
“Interpretatio Christiana,” in Maxima debetur magistro reverentia. Essays on Rome and the Roman Tradition in Honor of Russell T. Scott, ed. P.B. Harvey Jr. and C. Conybeare, Como: New Press Edizioni, 2009, 117-125
Selected honors:
2002 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award of the College Art Association
1984 Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, Bryn Mawr College