Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology
Renaissance and Baroque Art
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1977
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
teaches courses concerning art and architecture of the sixteenth to the
eighteenth century in Europe and its relations with other parts of the world.
Among his seminars are classes on the literature of art, old master drawings,
Central European Art, and global exchange in art. Professor Kaufmann has
recently been advising students on dissertations on the on Renaissance art in
Japan, on seventeenth-century poets and painters in Silesia, on Swedish
seventeenth-century architecture, and on architectural theory in late
eighteenth-century Poland, and on Puncinello themes in the art of G. B. Tiepolo.
Kaufmann is also on the Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the College
Association. Professor Kaufmann continues to serve on the board of directors of
the College Art Association, and is a member of the CAA Conference and
Nominating Committees. He is also a member of the board of the Historians of
Central European and German Art, and was a respondent in a session sponsored by
this organization at the Annual Meeting of the College Art Association held in
February 2006. During the academic year 2005-2006 he was chair of Art History
Development Committee for Advanced Placement Art History. He is a member of the
National Committee of Historians of Art; in April, 2006 he was co-chair of a
colloquium of the International Congress of the History of Art held in Malibu
and Los Angeles, and he is co-chair of a session to be held at the quadrennial
meeting of the Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in 2008. He will also chair a
session of the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America to be held
in Miami in 2006. He conducted a national seminar for dissertation writers held
at the Getty Center. He also serves as a selector for the fellowships from the
American Council of Learned Societies and the Radcliffe Institute. In autumn
2005 he gave the Oskar Halecki Lecture in the Supreme Court Building in Leipzig,
Germany: this lecture will be published soon as a booklet. He also lectured at
the Bard College Graduate Program, the Institute of Fine Arts, and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, all in New York, and at Florida State University and
the University of Southern California. In summer 2006 he gave plenary lectures
at conferences held at York and Oxford universities, England; in Tallinn,
Estonia; and Copenhagen, Denmark. He also lectured at the National Museum,
Stockholm, and the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Kaufmann has received the F.
Palacky Honorary medal for Social Sciences of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
which is their highest recognition.
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Recent publications:
In 2004 Professor Kaufmann published three books:
Toward a Geography of Art, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press;
The Eloquent Artist. Essays on Art, Art Theory and Architecture, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century. London, Pindar Press,
Central European Drawings in the Crocker Museum of Art, London, Harvey Miller.
In 2005 he published:
Painterly Enlightenment. Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) Chapel, Hill, University of North Carolina Press,
and together with Elizabeth Pilliod he edited Time and Place. The Geohistory of Art (London, Ashgate), for which he wrote the introduction.
During the academic year 2005-2006 he
also published thirteen articles, book chapters, and book reviews on topics
ranging from cultural transfer in Peru to Netherlandish art in Poland.
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