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Sarah Blake McHam
Professor
Italian Renaissance Art
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
Biographical Information:
Professor McHam is a specialist in Italian
painting and sculpture between 1200 and 1600. Her
recent publications include Looking at Italian
Renaissance Sculpture (Cambridge University Press, 1998;
paperback edition, 2000), a volume of essays that employ
different critical methodologies to analyze sculpture, and
“Donatello’s bronze David and Judith as Metaphors
of Medici Rule in Florence,” The Art Bulletin, 83
(March 2001), 32-47. She is currently completing a
book about the influence of Pliny the Elder’s Natural
History on Italian Renaissance art and aesthetics, as well
as articles about the Giambologna's "Equestrian Monument to Cosimo
I.", Giovanni Bellini’s painting called
“Woman with a Mirror,” and a reassessment of
Padua’s role in the dissemination of Renaissance
style
throughout the Veneto.
Her book, The Chapel of St. Anthony at the Santo and
the Development of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture
(Cambridge University Press, 1994), was the first historical
assessment of the design and decoration of the burial chapel
of St. Anthony of Padua, a major artistic commission of
sixteenth-century Italy. She has also published many
essays and articles on fifteenth-century and
sixteenth-century sculpture and painting in Tuscany and in
the Venetian Empire.
She has advised recently completed dissertations on such
topics as the depiction of Salome in Renaissance art, Leone
Leoni’s Casa degli Omenoni, on the Virgin's Sacred Belt and fifteenth-century
artistic commissions at Santo Stefano, Prato; Simone Martini's painting
of St. Louis of Toulouse; Ghiberti's sculpture and ritual performance;
and on fourteenth-century patronage at San Miniato, Florence.
Recent Awards:
Professor McHam is the recipient of two Graduate Teaching Excellence
Awards from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (2003) and
from Rutgers University (2002).
Dr. McHam supervising photography at the Santo in Padua
Recent Publications:
“Reflections of Pliny in Giovanni Bellini’s Woman with a Mirror,” Artibus
et Historiae (forthcoming 2008)
“Giambologna’s Equestrian Monument to Cosimo I: The Monument
Makes the Memory,” The Patronage of Sculpture in the Italian Renaissance,
ed. Kathleen Christian and David Drogin, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008 (forthcoming)
“La tomba del doge Giovanni Mocenigo: politica e culto dinastico,” Tullio
Lombardo, scultore e archtetto nella Venezia del rinascimento, Atti
del convegno di studi, Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 4-6 aprile
2006,
ed.
Matteo Ceriana, Verona: Cierre Grafica, 2007, 81-98.
“ La tomba del doge Giovanni Mocenigo: politica e culto dinastico,” Atti
del Convegno su Tullio Lombardo, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2007 (forthcoming)
“ Now and Then: Recovering a Sense of Different Values,” Depth of
Field,
ed. Donal Cooper and Marika Leino, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007, 251-95
“ Oedipal Palimpsest, ” Source. Notes in the History of Art (forthcoming
2008)
"Renaissance Monuments to Favorite Sons," Renaissance Studies ,
19, no. 4 (Sept. 2005), 458-86
“Erudition on Display: The ‘Scientific’ Illustrations in Pico
della Mirandola’s of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History,” Visualizing
Medieval Medicine, 1200-1550, ed.
Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide, AVISTA Studies in the History
of Medieval Science, Technology and Art, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 83-114
La Bottega dei Lombardo alla Cappella di Sant’Antonio e la teoria di
Pomponio Gaurico, I Lombardo. Architettura e scultura a Venezia tra ‘400 e ‘500,
ed. Andrea Guerra, Manuela Morresi, and Richard Schofield, Venice: Marsilio,
2006, 224-39
"Padua, Bassano, and Treviso," Venice and the Veneto, ed. Peter Humfrey,
, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 207-51
Structuring Communal History through Repeated Metaphors of Rule. The Interior
Decoration of the Palazzo della Signoria,? Renaissance Florence: A Social
History,
eds. Roger Crum and John T. Paoletti, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006,
104-37; paperback edition, 2008
"Donatello's Bronze David and Judith as Metaphors of
Medici Rule in Florence," The Art Bulletin, LXXXIV,
no. 2, March 2001
"La Scultura esterna di Santa Maria dei Miracoli," in S. Maria dei Miracoli, ed. Mario Piana
and Wolfgang Wolters, Venice, Istituto Veneto di Scienze,
Lettere, ed Arti, 2003, 123-40
“The Role of Pliny’s Natural History in the
Sixteenth-Century Redecoration of the Piazza of San Marco,
Venice,” Diverse Approaches to the Representation of
Classical Mythology in Art, eds. Luba Freedman and Gerlinde
Huber-Rebenich, Wege zum Mythos. Ikonographische Repertorien
zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa, Beiheft
III', Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001, 89-105.
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