Research Interests:
•The temporal life of artworks: antiquarianism, anachronism, archaism, citation, forgery
•Renaissance art and the eastern Mediterranean; the emergence of a conception of Europe
•The history of the altarpiece and the origins of easel painting
•Classifications & reclassifications of art in early modern art theory, art history, & art collecting
•Persistences and revivals of medieval/early modern modalities in modern & contemporary art
•Image magic and its adaptations in the Renaissance
•Art and the European Reformation
•History of the discipline of art history
•Art and image theory
Selected Publications:
Books:
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The Controversy of Renaissance Art, University Of Chicago Press, 2011. |
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Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art, co-edited with Lorenzo Pericolo, Ashgate Press, 2010. [order online] |
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Nagel, Alexander and Christopher Wood. Anachronic Renaissance. New York: Zone Books, 2010.[order online] |
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Michelangelo and the Reform of Art Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [order online] |
Selected Writings:
“Twenty-five notes on pseudoscript in Italian art,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 59/60, 2011, 229-48 [link to article]
Contribution to the forum “Questions of Style,” Artforum 69, 1 (2010): 258-59. [link to article]
“Roundtable on the Global before Globalization,” with Barry Finnbar Flood, Alessandra Russo, Eugene Wang, and Christopher Wood, moderated by David Joselit, October 133 (2010): 3-19. [link to article]
“The Afterlife of the Reliquary,” in Treasures of Heaven: Saint, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, eds. Martina Bagnoli, Holger A. Klein, C. Griffith Mann, and James Robinson (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2010), 211-22. [link to article]
Nagel, Alexander and Christopher Wood."What counted as an Antiquity in
the Renaissance?" In Renaissance Medievalisms, Toronto, 53-74.
Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. [link
to article]
"Icons and Early Modern Portraits." In El
Retrato del Renacimiento, edited by Miguel
Falomir, Madrid: Museo del Prado, 2008. [link
to article]
"Authorship and Image-making in the Monument to Giotto
in Florence cathedral." Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 53-54 (2008): 143-151.[link
to article]
"From the Vault: Preview of Jacopo Tintoretto at the
Prado." Artforum 45 (2007):
109-110.[link to
article]
Nagel, Alexander and Christopher Wood."Towards a new model of
Renaissance anachronism." Art Bulletin 87 (2005): 403-32. (with responses by Michael Cole, Charles Dempsey, and Claire
Farago [link
to article]
"Fashion and the now-time of Renaissance art," Res:
Anthropology and Aesthetics 46 (2004):
33-52. [link
to article]
"Experiments in art and reform in early
sixteenth-century Italy." In The Pontificate of Clement VII: History,
Politics, Culture, edited by Kenneth
Gouwens and Sheryl Reiss, 385-409.London: Ashgate, 2004. [link
to article]
"Art as gift: Liberal art and the Discourse of
Religious Reform in the Renaissance." In Négocier le Don-Negotiating
the Gift, 387-413.Paris: Deutsches Historisches Institut,
2003. [link
to article]
"The Antipodes of Modernity: Distinguished Scholars’ Session in honor of Leo Steinberg," lecture at the College Art Association, 2002 [link to lecture]
“Recent literature on Lorenzo Lotto.” (Review of Lorenzo
Lotto by Jacques Bonnet; Lorenzo Lotto by Peter Humfrey;, Lorenzo Lotto: Master
Painter of the Renaissance by David Alan
Brown, Peter Humfrey, and Mauro Lucco; Lorenzo Lotto e l'Immaginario
Alchemico by Mauro Zanchi), Art
Bulletin 80 (1998): 742-46. [link
to article]
"Altarpiece (Definition and History)." In The
Dictionary of Art.London: MacMillan, 1996, I, 707-13. [link
to article]
“Recent literature on Fra Angelico.” (Review of, Fra
Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration by
Georges Didi-Huberman, trans. Jane Marie Todd and, Fra Angelico at
San Marco by William Hood), Art Bulletin,
78, 1996, 559-65. [link
to article]
"Leonardo and sfumato." RES: Anthropology and
Aesthetics, 24 (1993) 7-20. [link to article]
Academic Degrees:
Harvard University, Department of Fine Arts (1987-1993): M.A. 1990, Ph.D.
1993.
University of California, Berkeley, Department of History (1982-1987):
B.A. 1987.
Université de Montpellier, Département d'Histoire (1984-1985):
D.E.U.G. 1985.