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Tod A. Marder
Professor II and Program Director, Historic Preservation
Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
Ph.D., Columbia University
Biographical Information:
Professor Marder's principal research interest is in the field of Roman baroque architecture in general, and the art and architecture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini in specific. In 1997, he published Bernini's Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace. Architecture, Sculpture, and Ritual (Cambridge University Press), an extensive, documented monograph on Bernini's Scala Regia and the equestrian statue of Constantine, attempting to put these monuments in the historical context of the Vatican Palace, St. Peter's basilica, and Piazza San Pietro. In 1998, he published Bernini and the Art of Architecture (Abbeville
Press), a more general book on Bernini's architecture, focussing on his major
works and what they tell us about his goals and intentions,  and how he realized
them.
This
book provides a starting point for a series of additional
investigations of individual works that will cast new light
on the relationship of patron and architect in the design
process.
Current
research projects include a book of essays (co-edited with Mark Wilson Jones)
on the Pantheon from ancient to modern times and a
re-edition (with Ann Sutherland Harris) of Brauer and
Wittkower's corpus of Bernini drawings. Professor Marder is also working
on a general book on Bernini's art.
 Recent Publications:
Reviews: N. Courtright, The Papacy and the
Art of Reform in 16th Century Rome and T. Ehrlich, Landscape and Identity
in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era in
Art Bulletin. March 2006
"Bernini's Neptune and Triton Fountain from the Villa Montalto," in Bernini
dai Borghese ai Barberini. La cultura a Roma intorno agli anni Venti,
Academie de France a Rome (Accademia di Francia a Roma, Villa Medici),
eds. Olivier Bonfait and Anna Coliva, Rome,
2004, 118-127.
" A Bernini Expert Reflects on Dan Brown's Use of the Baroque Master" and "A
Scholar Visits the Vatican Library" in Dan Burstein, Secrets of
Angels and Demons: the Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel,
New York: CDS Books with Squibnocket Partners LLC, 2004.
“Delli Portici, e Piazza avanti il Tempio Vaticano,” and “Della nuova
Scala Regia Vaticana che conduce al Palazzo Ponteficio,” in Il Tempio
Vaticano 1694. Carlo Fontana, ed. Giovanna Curcio, Milan, 2003, 206-215
and 216-221.
“Strumenti e invenzioni nell’architettura di Bernini,” Storia
dell’architettura italiana. Il Seicento, ed. Aurora Scotti Tosini,
Milan, 2003, 146-161.
"Symmetry and Eurythmy at the Pantheon: the Fate of
Bernini's Perceptions from the Seventeenth Century to the
Present Day" Antiquity and Its Interpreters, ed. A.
Payne, A. Kuttner, R. Smick, Cambridge University Press,
2000, 217-226.
"Borromini e Bernini a Piazza Navona," in Francesco
Borromini. Atti del convegno internazionale. Eds. Christoph Luitpold
Frommel and Elisabeth Sladek. Rome, 2000: 140-145.
"L'immagine del principe" (The Image of the Prince), "Il palazzo Ducale
- il parere di Bernini" (Ducal Palace - Bernini's Professional Assessment),
and "Il palazzo Ducale - il parere di Cortona"(Ducal Palace - Cortona's
Professional Assessment), in Modena 1598. L'Invenzione di una capitale,
eds. M. Bulgarelli, C. Conforti, G. Curcio, Electa Editore, 1999, 39-53,
124-127, 134-137.
"I rapporti fra Alessandro VII, i suoi architetti e i loro edifici" in Bernini
e la Roma di Alessandro VII, Roma alessandrina. Il Bernini e la nuova Roma
all'epoca Chigi 1655/1667 (essays by A. Coliva, M. Fagiolo, M. Minozzi, M. Ulivi,
S. Schütze, M. Bevilacqua, S.Roberto, T. Marder), Rome, 1999, 244-255.
Longer list of publications
Activities:
Respondant at a symposium (October 15, 2006)
in Princeton entitled Virgin Saints and the Early Christian Revival which
was held in conjunction with the exhibition "Pietro da Cortona's Saint
Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols-- a Painting in Context."
July and early August 2006, taught the first edition
of the Rome Summer School with Erik Thuno. The
course included a personal tour behind the scenes at the Vatican Museums and
the Vatican Palace,
as well as a visit to ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation
and Restoration of Cultural Heritage).
“St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome: Peter to John Paul II,” session
organizer for Italian Art Society, College Art Association annual
meeting, Atlanta (February 2005)
Organizing committee, From Raphael to the Grand Tour, A Symposium in Celebration
of Malcolm Campbell’s Seventieth Birthday, University of Pennsylvania,
October 2004
Organizing committee and Session chair for Galileo and the Arts, The Age of
Galileo: Art and Science in Early Modern Italy, Rutgers University, October
2004
Co-organizer (with Joe Consoli and Sara Harrington) and Presenter at the symposium “Forging Memorial Art for Public Memory,” sponsored by the Art Library and the Department of Art History – 5 speakers contextualizing the Art Library exhibition entitled Forging Memorial Art for Public Memory (September 12, 2003)
Presenter for session “Forming the Social Contract” at the symposium “The Italian Renaissance City: Art, Architecture, and Civic Identity,” Princeton University (September 19-20, 2003)
Recent Lectures:
The Pantheon After Antiquity, Karman Center for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities and the Universität
Bern, Bern, Switzerland, November 10-11, 2006
A Finger Bath in Rosewater: Cracks in Bernini’s Reputation, Sankt
Peter in Rom 1506-2006, Internationaler Kongress, Kunsthistorisches Institut
der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, February 2006
Bernini and the Art of Portraiture, 3 lectures for the seminar “Illustrated
Identity: Portraits, Artists, and Society in Italy,” Siena School for
Liberal Arts and Università degli Studi Siena, December 2005
Bernini and the Centralized Church Plans for Alexander VII, L’Architecture
Religieuse Europeenne au Temps des Reformes: Heritage de la Renaissance et
Recherches Nouvelles, Centre André Chastel et Université d’Utrecht,
Maisons-Lafitte et Paris, June 2005
The Literary Myth of Bernini, Annual Meeting, Renaissance Society
of America , New York, April 2004.
The True Subject of Bernini’s Neptune and Triton for the Villa
Montalto, From Raphael to the Grand Tour, A Symposium in Celebration
of Malcolm Campbell’s Seventieth Birthday, University of Pennsylvania,
October 2004.
Missionary Science-Hieroglyphic Art: Bernini, Kircher, and the
Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome, Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture,
Boston College, November 2004.
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