Louis A. Waldman: A Brief Biography

Louis A. Waldman has been Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art at the University of Texas at Austin since 2000. He received his B.A. in Art History from Hunter College of the City University of New York and has his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

His publications include a book, Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004); he is currently completing two manuscripts entitled Rewriting the Past and The Choir of Florence Cathedral: Transformations of Sacred Space. Dr. Waldman’s publications also include some sixty articles in scholarly journals, including Apollo, The Art Bulletin, The Burlington Magazine, Gazette des-Beaux-Arts, I Tatti Studies, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Pantheon, Paragone, and The Sculpture Journal.

In addition, Dr. Waldman co-organizer of a major exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Art of Early Renaissance Florence, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (2005) and has written numerous contributions to museum and exhibition catalogues worldwide.

He has been named a Fellow of Villa I Tatti, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Kress Fellow to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. In 2004, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence bestowed upon Dr. Waldman the title of Accademico d’Onore.