Department of Art History

The Bross Lectures are endowed in memory of alumna Louise Smith Bross (PhD '94). They are presented every three years by a distinguished scholar of pre-1800 European art and result in a book-length publication.

Forthcoming

 “Architecture in Two Dimensions"

• “The Case for and Against Drawing" 
• “Plane and Simple. Architecture and the Seduction of Relief"
• "Photospace: Renaissance Architecture and the Photographic Atlas"

“Classification and the History of Greek Art”

• “How to View a Dionysiac Monument”
• “The Limits of Taxonomy”
• “The Unclassified Past”

“Visible Theology: Diagrams and the Dynamics of Medieval Thought”

• “Diagrams as Paradigm: The Diagrammatic Mode in Medieval Art”
• “From Cross to Crucifix: Rereading Hrabanus Maurus’s in Honor of the Holy Cross in the Late Thirteenth Century”
• “Marian Diagrams and Dominican Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Supplement to Hrabanus Maurus”

Published as Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020).

“Inventions of Place: Rethinking the Geography of Italian Art in the Age of Lotto and Titian”

• “Re-mapping the Italian Renaissance”
• “Distant Cities: Lorenzo Lotto, Gaudenzio Ferrari, and Making of Sacred Landscape”
• “Sacred Naturalism and the Art of Moretto and Savoldo”
• “Against Titian”

Published as The Endless Periphery: Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019).

“Some Archaeologies of Surveillance”

• “Scanning and Planning: Modern Modes of Watching the Ancient World”
• “Spying and Crying: Ancient Modes of Watching the Ancient World”
• “The Utility of Surveillance: Case Studies and Observations”

“Enemy Painting: Enmity and the Unspeakable Subject”

Published as The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Published as The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).