Louis A. Waldman, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Art and Art History
(D1300)
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712-0337
(512) 232-2610 (office) •
(512) 471-5539 (fax) • (512) 833-0332 (home) • e-mail: waldman@mail.utexas.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1999.
M.A.,
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1993.
B.A.,
Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1989.
TEACHING
Fall 2000-present
Assistant Professor,
University of Texas at Austin.
Fall 1999-Summer 2000
Senior Lecturer, University
of Texas at Austin.
Spring 1999
Lecturer, Syracuse
University in Florence.
Fall 1998
Lecturer, University of
Texas at San Antonio Florence Program.
RESEARCH
A. Book
Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court:
A Corpus of Early Modern Sources (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004).
Currently completing two
books:
Rewriting the Past: The
Memoriale Attributed to Baccio Bandinelli and the Culture of Forgery in Early
Modern Europe.
The Choir of Florence Cathedral:
Transformations of Sacred Space, 1334-1572.
B. Articles and Essays
“Patronage, Lineage, and
Self-Promotion in Maso da San Friano’s Naples Double Portrait” (in press, accepted by I Tatti Studies)
“A New Drawing by Alonso Berruguete
in Lisbon” (in press, accepted by Master Drawings)
“The Patronage of a Favorite of
Leo X: Cardinal Niccolò Pandolfini,
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, and the Unfinished Tomb by Baccio da Montelupo” (in press,
accepted by Mitteilungen des
Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz)
“Sculptor and Perfumer in Early
Renaissance Florence: New Research on
Sandro di Lorenzo” (in press, accepted by Mitteilungen
des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz)
“He Ran Away to Rome and Defrauded the Said Nuns”: Bernardo di Leonardo, Francesco Granacci, and
the San Giorgio sulla Costa Altarpiece (in press, accepted by Source).
“New Documents for the Florentine
Painter Antonio di Donnino del Mazziere” (in press, accepted by Source).
“‘Ingenious and Subtle Spirits’:
Florentine Painting in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century,” in Leonardo
da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, exh. cat., Ottawa,
National Gallery of Canada (2005), pp. 24-39.
“Modern Times,” American Bungalow, XLV (Spring 2005), p.
10.
“A Raphael Riddle Resolved,” The
Burlington Magazine, CXLVI, No. 1220 (2004), pp. 753-757.
“La questione dei dipinti postumi di Filippino
Lippi: Fra Girolamo da Brescia, il ‘Maestro
di Memphis’, e la pala d’altare a Fabbrica di Peccioli,” in Filippino Lippi e Pietro Perugino. La Deposizione della Santissima Annunziata e
il suo restauro, ed. Franca Falletti and Jonathan Katz Nelson (Florence,
2004), pp. 120-147 (with Jonathan Katz Nelson).
“Documenti inediti su Filippino e le sue opere,” ibid., pp. 172-181.
“Domenico Fetti’s
Philosophers,” Source, XXIV, no. 1
(2004), pp. 26-35.
“Colored Sculpture or Three-Dimensional Painting? A Note on Renaissance Artistic Terminology
(and Filippo della Robbia),” Source,
XXIII, no. 4 (2004), pp. 15-18.
“A Patron for Cesare Velli’s Lamentation in Borgo San Lorenzo,” Source, XXIII, no. 3 (2004), pp. 4-39.
“1950 Meets 1905,” American
Bungalow, XLIII (2004), p. 8.
“Breakfast in Bed,” American
Bungalow, XLII (2004), pp. 8-9.
“A New Identification for the
Master of the Copenhagen ‘Charity’:
Bartolomeo Ghetti in Tuscany and France,” The Burlington Magazine, CXLV,
no. 1198 (2003), pp. 4-13.
“Michele d’Alessio di Papi:
The Patron of Pontormo’s S. Ruffillo Altarpiece,” Apollo, CLVIII (September 2003), pp. 40-45.
“Children of Mercury: New
Light on Florentine Members of the Company of St. Luke (c. 1475-c. 1525), Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen
Institutes in Florenz, XLVII (2003), pp. 118-158.
“New Reliefs by Alessandro Fancelli, called Scherano, for the Certosa
di Galluzzo,” The Sculpture Journal,
IX (2003), pp. 38-45.
“‘Bad Painting’ in Renaissance Florence: Domenico di Bartolomeo, called Malfetta, Painter
and Art Dealer,” Source, XXIII, no. 1
(2003), pp. 34-38.
“Transformative Interior,” American
Bungalow, XXXVIII (2003), p. 9.
“New Light on the Capponi Chapel
in S. Felicita” The Art Bulletin,
LXXIV, no. 2 (2002), pp. 293-314.
“Two Foreign Artists in
Renaissance Florence: Alonso Berruguete
and Gian Francesco Bembo,” Apollo,
CLV, no. 484 (June 2002), pp. 22-29.
“Bandinelli and the Opera di
Santa Maria del Fiore: Privilege,
Patronage and Pedagogy,” in Santa Maria
del Fiore: The Cathedral and Its Sculpture,
ed. Margaret Haines (Fiesole: Cadmo, 2001)
pp. 217-252.
“The Rank and File of Renaissance
Painting: Giovanni Larciani and the ‘Florentine
Eccentrics’,” in Italian Renaissance
Masters, exh. cat., Milwaukee, Haggerty
Museum of Art at Marquette University (2001), pp. 22-43.
“Three Altarpieces by Pier
Franceso Foschi: Patronage, Context and
Function (with Notes on Some Assistants in the Workshop of Botticelli),” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, CXXXVII (2001),
pp. 17-36.
“New Documents for Memling’s
Portinari Portraits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Apollo, CLIII (February 2001), pp. 28-33.
“Two Late Altarpieces by
Bachiacca,” Apollo, CLIV, no. 474
(August 2001), pp. 30-35 (with David Franklin).
“Bertoldo di Giovanni di Bertoldo
(Again),” The Burlington Magazine,
CXLIII (2001), p. 758.
“Fact, Fiction, Hearsay: Notes on Vasari’s Life of Piero di Cosimo,” The Art Bulletin, LXXXII, no. 1 (2000),
pp. 171-179.
“The Origins and Family of Rosso
Fiorentino,” The Burlington Magazine,
CXLII (2000), pp. 607-612.
“The Mary Magdalen in Santa Trinita by Desiderio da Settignano and
Giovanni d’Andrea,” Pantheon, LVIII
(2000), pp. 13-18.
“‘The Modern Lysippus’: A Roman Quattrocento Medalist in Context,” in
Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal,
1450-1650, ed. Stephen K. Scher (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), pp. 97-113.
“A Late Work by Andrea della
Robbia Rediscovered: The Jews’ Tabernacle
at Empoli,” Apollo, CL (September
1999), pp. 13-20.
“The Painter as Sculptor: A New Relief by Andrea di Salvi Barili,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen
Institutes in Florenz, XLIII (1999), pp. 200 207.
“Puligo and Jacopo di Filippo Fornaciaio: Two Unrecorded Paintings of 1524,” Source, XVIII (1999), pp. 25-27.
“New Evidence for Rosso
Fiorentino in Piombino,” Paragone, L,
No. 587 (1999), pp. 105-12, pls. 51-52 (with David Franklin).
“The ‘Master of the Kress
Landscapes’ Unmasked: Giovanni Larciani
and the Fucecchio Altar-piece,” The Burlington
Magazine, CXL (1998), pp. 456-469.
“A Case of Mistaken
Identity: The Martellini Jupiter by
Giovanni di Scherano Fancelli,” The
Burlington Magazine, CXL (1998), pp. 788-798.
“Un nome per il ‘Maestro dei
Paesaggi Kress’: Giovanni Larciani e la
pala d’altare di Fucecchio,” Erba d’Arno,
LXXIV (1998), pp. 22-47.
“Nanni di Baccio Bigio at Santo
Spirito,” Mitteilungen des
Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, LXII (1998), pp. 198-204.
“Dal Medioevo alla
Controriforma: I Cori di Santa Maria del
Fiore,” in Sotto il cielo della
Cupola: Il Coro di Santa Maria del Fiore,
exh. cat., Florence, Palazzo Vecchio
(1997), pp. 37-68.
“Bronzino’s Uffizi ‘Pietà’ and
the Cambi Chapel in S. Trinita, Florence,” The
Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX (1997), pp. 94-102.
“The Date of Rustici’s ‘Madonna’
Relief for the Florentine Silk Guild,” The
Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX (1997), pp. 869-872.
“A Document for Andrea del Sarto’s ‘Panciatichi Assumption,’” The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX (1997),
pp. 469-470.
“Florence Cathedral in the Early
Trecento: The Provisional High Altar and
Choir of the Canonica,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen
Institutes in Florenz, XL (1996),
pp. 267-286.
“Florence Cathedral: The Façade Competition of 1476,” Source, XVI (1996), pp. 1-6.
“The Earliest Known Medalists: The Sesto Brothers of Venice,” American Journal of Numismatics, 2nd
series, V-VI (1995), pp. 167-88, pls. 19-21
(with Alan M. Stahl).
“The Cloisters-L’Aquila
Pulpit: An Unknown Signature,” Gesta, XXXIII (1995), pp. 60-64.
“‘Miracol’ novo et raro’: Two Unpublished Contemporary Satires on
Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus,” Mitteilungen
des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XXXVIII (1994), pp. 419-427.
“The Genesis of Pompeo Leoni’s
Patience,” in Designs on Posterity: Drawings for Medals, ed. Mark Jones,
London: British Art Medal Trust (1994),
pp. 52-63.
“Domenico Campagnola’s
Premonition of Meliboeus,” Journal of the
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LV (1993), pp. 270-272, pls. 49-50.
“An Anagrammatic Attribute: Christian Schad’s Portrait of Eva von
Arnheim,” The Burlington Magazine,
CXXXV (1993), pp. 276-277.
“Schongauer and ‘Living Water,’” Print Quarterly, X (1993), pp. 54-55.
“A Satiric Image on a Maiolica Pharmacy Jar,” The Burlington Magazine, CXXIV (1992), pp.
375-378.
“A Medal of Paul II after a
Design by Fouquet,” The Medal, XXI
(1992), pp. 3-15.
“A Livian Plaquette by Master
IO.F.F.,” The Medal, XXI (1992), pp.
16-19.
“A Rare Sixteenth-Century Jugate
Medal of the Hapsburgs,” The Medal,
XIX (1991), pp. 3-19.
“Varrone d’Agniolo Belferdino’s
Commemorative Medal of an Unknown Lady,” American
Journal of Numismatics, 2nd series, III-IV (1991), pp. 105-116, pls. 10-12.
“Spenser’s Pseudonym ‘E. K.’ and
Humanist Self-Naming,” Spenser Studies,
IX (1988), pp. 11-21.
C. Entries in Museum and
Exhibition Catalogues
Entries on Agostino Veneziano,
Bandinelli, Bronzino, Della Casa, Franciabigio, Pierino da Vinci, Raimondi, Rustici,
Jacopo Sansovino, and Tribolo, in Leonardo
da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, exh. cat., Ottawa,
National Gallery of Canada, 2005, pp. 68-69, 80-81, 150-155, 160-161, 226-227,
254-271, 274-275, 278-279, 288-291, 335, 336, 341-342, 348, 351-354.
Entries and biographies on Camelio,
Candida, Francia, Master I.O.F.F., Mea, Della Torre, Andrea da Viterbo and
anonymous medallists in European Medals
in the Elvehjem Museum of Art, ed. Maria Saffiotti Dale.
Entries on Pierino da Vinci
in: L’ombra
del genio. Michelangelo e l’arte a
Firenze, 1537-1631, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, ed. Marco Chiarini, Alan P. Darr, Cristina Giannini (2002), pp.
231-232.
Also published in English
in: The
Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, exh. cat.,
Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit Institute
of Arts (published by Yale University Press).
Entries on Giovanni Candida and
anonymous medals of the Valois in: The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, exh.
cat., Washington, National Gallery and New York, Frick Collection (1994), pp.
121-122, 307-309, 347-348, 381, 395-396, 398.
Entry on Tintoretto’s Pool of Bethesda in A Connoisseur's Quest: Integrating New Discoveries into the Annals of
Art History, exh. cat., Annandale-on-Hudson, Edith C. Blum Art
Institute at Bard College, 1990, pp. 8-11, no. 8.
D. Exhibition Reviews
“Florence after Michelangelo” (Review of
L’ombra del genio. Michelangelo e l’arte
a Firenze, 1537-1631, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Venere e Amore, Florence, Accademia),
in The Burlington Magazine, CXLIV, No.
1194 (2002), pp. 574-578.
John Shearman, Raphael in Early
Modern Sources (1483-1602) (New Haven and London, 2003), in: CAA Reviews Online (forthcoming).
Michel Jeanneret, Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from
da Vinci to Montaigne, trans. Nidra Poller (Baltimore and London, 2001), in: Word and Image (forthcoming).
Evelyn Lincoln, The Invention of the Renaissance Printmaker
(New Haven and London, 2000), in: Word and Image, XX, no. 4
(October-December 2004), pp. 323-324.
Gregorio Comanini, The Figino, or On the Purpose of Painting: Art Theory in the Late Renaissance, trans.,
with introduction and notes, by Ann Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino
(Toronto, 2001), in: Renaissance Quarterly, LVI (2002), pp.
773-774.
Kerstin Schwedes, Historia in statua. Zur Eloquenz plastischer Bildwerke Michelangelos
im Umfeld des Christus von Santa Maria sopra Minerva zu Rom (Frankfurt am Main,1998), in
Sixteenth-Century Studies, XXXI (2000), pp. 586-588.
CURATORIAL WORK
Co-organizer of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance
in Florence (with David Franklin and Andrew Butterfield), Ottawa,
National Gallery of Canada (May 29-September 5, 2005).
Curatorial Consultant, Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York
(2003-present).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(SELECTED)
Moderator of the symposium An
In-Depth Look at the Renaissance in Florence, Ottawa, National Gallery of
Canada, May 29, 2005.
INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS
(SELECTED)
“The Eye of Russell Lee,”
Undergraduate Art History Association “Last Lecture” series, University of
Texas at Austin, April 24, 2003.
“Performance and Decorum in Italian Renaissance Religious Painting,”
lecture at Indiana University, Bloomington, March 27, 2002.
“Here’s Looking at You: Theatricality and Visual Communication in
Renaissance Religious Painting,” lecture at Truman State University, December 3, 2001.
“A Florentine Renaissance Master
at Bucknell: Giovanni Larciani and the
‘Florentine Eccentrics,” lecture at the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania,
November 17, 2001.
“Out of Hiding: Renaissance
Paintings from Smaller Public and Private Collections,” keynote lecture for
opening of the exhibition Italian Renaissance Masters, Haggerty Museum of Art,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, January 25, 2001.
“An Unwritten Chapter in Renaissance Painting: The ‘Florentine Eccentrics,’” Undergraduate
Art History Association “Last Lecture” series,
University of Texas at Austin, October 25, 2000.
“The Bandinelli Fakes: Forgery
and the Construction of Artistic Identity in Early Modern Italy,” Faculty
Lecture Series, University of Texas at Austin, February 17, 2000.
“Re-writing the Past:
Documentary Forgeries from the Archivio Bandinelli.” Lecture at the
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, June 23, 1998. Italian version given at the Fondazione Piero
della Francesca, Sansepolcro, November 27, 1998.
“Un nome per il Maestro dei
Paesaggi Kress: Dall’ipotesi al
documento, storia di una scoperta.”
Lecture at San Salvatore, Fucecchio, February
14, 1998. Expanded English version given
at Johns Hopkins University, Villa Spelman, Florence, May 25, 1998.
“Subverting Professional
Discourse: Sixteenth-Century Art and
Artists in Anton Francesco Doni’s Imprese,” session on “Fictive Art/Imagined Spaces: Textual Constructions of Art and Architecture
in Sixteeenth-Century Italy, Renaissance Society of America meeting, New York, April 1-3, 2003.
“Nicolas Beatrizet, Niccolò della
Casa, and Baccio Bandinelli’s Combat of Reason and Love,” Renaissance Society
of America session “Rethinking
Reproductive Prints,” Toronto, April 13-15, 2003.
“Portraits and
Self-Promotion: The Secretaries of
Cosimo I de’ Medici,” Renaissance Society of America session “Portraits of Humanists,
Part I,” April 13-15, 2002, Scottsdale,
Arizona, April 13-15, 2002.
“Remodelling the Palazzo
Pitti: Bandinelli versus Vasari.” Paper presented in the symposium “Reading
Vasari,” Georgia Museum of Art, University
of Georgia at Athens, November 16-17, 2001.
“Pontormo’s San Ruffillo
Altarpiece: Patronage, Dating and the
Dynamics of the Glance,” Jacopo da Pontormo Seminar, London, National Gallery of Art, November 29, 2000.
“The Patronage of Cardinal
Niccolò Pandolfini: Ridolfo
Ghirlandaio’s Pistoia Altarpiece and Baccio da Montelupo’s Unfinished Tomb,” Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference, Georgia
Museum of Art, University of Georgia at Athens, November 7, 2000.
“The St. Mary Magdalen in Santa Trinita,
Florence by Desiderio da Settignano and Giovanni d’Andrea” CAA session “New
Research in Italian Renaissance Art,” New
York, February 25, 2000.
“Marcillat, Pontormo e la rinnovazione della
Cappella Capponi in Santa Felicita.” Paper
presented in the symposium “Guglielmo da Marcillat: La vetrata rinascimentale e la ‘maniera
moderna’ nell’aretino,” Biblioteca Comunale, Arezzo, May 28-29, 1999.
“The Cavaliere, the Opera and the
Granduca: The Florentine Career of
Vincenzo de’ Rossi.” Paper presented in
the symposium “La Cattedrale e la
Città: Settimana di Studî
Interdisciplinari Promossa dall’Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore,” Palazzo
Covoni, Florence, June 16-21, 1997.
“Bandinelli and the Opera di Santa Maria del
Fiore: Patronage, Privilege, Praxis, Pedagogy.” Paper presented in the symposium “Santa Maria
del Fiore: The Cathedral and Its
Sculpture,” Villa I Tatti, Florence, June 5-6, 1997.
“The Design and Construction of
the Florentine Cathedral Choir, 1546-1560.” Paper presented in the symposium “Florence
Cathedral in the Renaissance: Above and
Around the Altar Table,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., March 14-15,
1997.
“‘The Modern Lysippus’: A Roman Quattrocento Medallist in
Context.” Paper presented in the symposium “The Reverse of the Medal,”
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, September 23-24, 1994.
“The Genesis of Pompeo Leoni’s Patience.” Paper presented in the 23rd Congress of the
Féderation Internationale de la Médaille, British
Museum, London, September 16-17, 1992.
“The Medals of Alexander Colin
and Hapsburg Dynasticism after Charles V.”
Paper presented in the Graduate Seminar Conference, American Numismatic Society,
New York, January 12, 1991; and in the
26th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 11, 1991.
CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED
“A Poligrafo among Artists: Anton Francesco Doni and the Visual Arts,”
Renaissance Society of America meeting, Cambridge, April 7- 9, 2005 (four papers).
“Art in Cosimo I’s Florence: New Contexts for Meaning,” South Central
Renaissance Conference, Austin, April 2, 2004 (four papers).
“Rethinking Reproductive
Engraving: Artists and Printmakers in
Sixteenth-Century Italy,” Renaissance Society of America meeting, Toronto, March 28-30, 2003 (three papers).
A. SCHOLARLY RECOGNITION
October 15, 2004 Elected an Accademico d’Onore of the Accademia
delle Arti del Disegno, Florence.
B. TEACHING RECOGNITION
2004, 2005 Nominated
for Friar Society Centennial Teaching Fellowship (UT’s highest teaching award).
2004 Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship (awarded by
the Provost).
2002-2003 UT
College of Fine Arts Teaching Excellence Award (awarded by the Fine Arts
Council).
C. RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2005-2006 Robert Lehman Fellow, Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance
Studies at Villa I Tatti.
Fall 2004 Dean’s Fellowship and Walter & Gina Ducloux Fine Arts
Fellowship.
Summer 2004 UT College of Fine Arts Summer Research
Grant.
Summer 2003 UT College of Fine Arts/Center for Advanced
Studies in Art Competitive Summer Fellowship.
2002 University
Cooperative Society Subvention Grant for the book Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court.
Summer 2001 UT Austin Summer Research Assignment Grant.
1999-2000 Fulbright Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship.
1998 Samuel H. Kress
Foundation Research Grant.
1997-98 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University.
1997-98 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
1995-97 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship to Kunsthistorisches
Institut, Florence.
Summer 1994 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant.
Summer 1993 Rev. Herbert Musurillo, S.J. Scholarship,
Brooklyn College Latin Institute.
Summer 1993 Eleanor H. Pearson Travel Fellowship, New
York University.
Summer 1992 Shelby and Leon Levy Fellowship, New York
University.
1991-97 Institute of Fine Arts Fellowships, New York University.
Summer 1990 Graduate Fellowship, American Numismatic
Society.
1990-94 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.
PROFESSIONAL LISTINGS
Marquis Who’s Who in America (since 2006 edition).
Marquis Who’s Who in American Art (since 2004 edition).