DAVID A. LEVINE Art

BOOK PUBLISHED:

With Ekkehard Mai et al. I Bamboccianti: Niederlaendische Malerrebellen im Rom des Barock. Milan: Electa, 1991.

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

"Nicolaes Berchem: The Country Farrier." Masterworks for Learning: A College Collection Catalogue, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Vol. II (forthcoming on CD ROM).

"Jan Asselijn: Landscape with Roman Ruins." Masterworks for Learning: A College Collection Catalogue, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Vol. II (forthcoming on CD ROM).

"Bamboccianti." The Dictionary of Art, ed. by Jane Turner, London, MacMillan Publishers, 1996, III,143.

"Cerquozzi, Michelangelo." The Dictionary of Art, ed. by Jane Turner, London, MacMillan Publishers, 1996, VI, 346-347.

"Laer, Pieter (Boddingh) van." The Dictionary of Art, ed. by Jane Turner, London, MacMillan Publishers, 1996, XVIII, 622-625.

"Schildersbent." The Dictionary of Art, ed. by Jane Turner, London, MacMillan Publishers, 1996, XXVIII, 92.

"The Bentvueghels: 'Bande Academique.'" In IL60: Essays Honoring Irving Lavin on His Sixtieth Birthday, edited by M. Lavin, NY: Italica Press, 1990: 207-225.

PAPER PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDING:

"Pieter van Laer's Artists' Tavern: An Ironic Commentary on Art." In Hollaendische Genremalerei im 17. Jahrhundert: Symposium Berlin 1984, edited by H. Bock and T. W. Gaehtgens, Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Sonderband 4, Berlin, 1987: 169-191.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Wolfgang Stechow and the Art of Iconography." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, LI, 1998, 5-14 (with Nicola Courtright).

"Appendix: Table of Contents and Addenda for Stechow’s ‘Gesammelte Aufsätze.’" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, LI, 1998, 67-78 (ed. with Nicola Courtright).

"The Roman Limekilns of the Bamboccianti." The Art Bulletin 70 (1988): 569-589.

"The Paradox of Rembrandt's 'Dr. Tulp'" (review article). The Art Bulletin 68 (1986): 337-340.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

With James H. Rubin. Eighteenth-Century French Life-Drawings (exhibition catalogue). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

EXHIBITS/SHOWS/PERFORMANCES OF CREATIVE WORKS:

Co-organized major international loan exhibition, "I Bamboccianti: Niederlaendische Malerrebellen im Rom des Barock," at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, August-November 1991 and at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, December-February 1992. The exhibition, which gathered 110 paintings from 50 European and North American collections, presented a misunderstood group of foreign painters active in Seicento, Rome in a new light.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"Frans Hals and the Language of Dutch Portraiture." 6th Annual CSU Research Conference, Eastern Connecticut State University, October 1999.

"Latin Culture and Regional Consciousness in Holland, 1585-1612." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1997.

"Dutch Rivalry with Classical Antiquity and Its Significance for Painting of 17th Century Holland." Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jan.1997.

"Bramer and Van Laer." Leonaert Bramer Symposium, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, December 1992.

"Pieter Bruegel and Ironic Allusion to the Grand Tradition in Netherlandish Low-Life Painting." College Art Association Annual Meeting, NY, February 1990.

"The Bamboccianti: Paradoxical Painters of Base Themes in Baroque Rome." Brown University, March 1988.

"The Bentvueghels: 'Bande Academique.'" Colloquium in Honor of Irving Lavin's Sixtieth Birthday, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, December 1987.

"From Lime to Sublime: The Art of the Bamboccianti Reconsidered." Princeton University, March 1986; Temple University, April 1986; New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, November 1987.

"Irony in Pieter van Laer's Portrayal of Roman Limekilns." College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, February 1985.

"Pieter van Laer's Artists' Tavern and the Bentvueghels." Symposium on Dutch Genre Painting, Gemaeldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, July 1984.

"Bamboccio's Artists' Tavern as a Commentary on Art." College Art Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, February 1984.

"The Uses of Laughter in Renaissance and Baroque Art." College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 1999 (with David R. Smith).

"Transalpine Exchanges: North and South in the 16th and 17th Centuries." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 1998.

"Toward Dutch Self-Consciousness: The Challenge of Italy." Conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Baltimore, 1998.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

SCSU Faculty Scholar Award (Scholar of the Year), 1992

Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1999.

N.E.H. Travel to Collections Grant, 1990

Getty Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 1985-86

Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1985-86

Visiting Fellow, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1985-86

Summer Research Grant, Connecticut State University, 1985

Presidential Research Fellowship, SCSU, 1984-85

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Dutch, Flemish and Italian Painting; Sculpture and Architecture of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Genre Painting; Irony; Paradox; National Consciousness

WORKS IN PROGRESS/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Netherlandish Artistic Response to the Challenge of Italy, 1560-1690 (book in progress).

"Pieter Bruegel’s Peasants and the Paradoxical Proverb" (article in progress).

"Toward Dutch Self-Definition: Responses to the Challenge of Italy" (article in progress).

DISSERTATION TITLE:

The Art of the Bamboccianti

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

Princeton University