| Gail L. Geiger,
Professor
Art History Department
B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1965
M.A., Standford University, 1968
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975 My research interests focus
on Italian Renaissance patronage: who commissioned art and why? My
publications began with studies on private patronage for ecclesiastical
projects, particularly the mendicants of the Dominican Order during
the fifteenth century in Rome and Florence. Subsequently, my interests
have grown to include issues of racial representation during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries throughout the peninsula. My work has been driven
more by archival resources and Renaissance intellectual currents
than by contemporary theoretical questions. And I have been and remain
interested in a variety of media in visual representation.
 My
teaching reflects this commitment to all media so that I have organized
intermediate level courses around particular centuries and across both
the "major" arts of architecture, sculpture and painting as
well as the so-called minor arts of graphics, ceramics, tapestries,
etc. My advanced courses now include both a course on alternative interpretations
of the Italian Renaissance with attention to race and gender and a course
on material culture/decorative arts. Seminars range over a variety of
topics depending upon my shifting interests.
Publications:
- FILIPPINO
LIPPI'S CARAFA CHAPEL: RENAISSANCE ART IN ROME, vol. V of
Sixteenth Century
Essays & Studies (1986)
- "Filippino
Lippi's Carafa 'Annunciation': Theology, Artistic Conventions,
and Patronage," THE ART BULLETIN 36(1981):62-75
- "Filippino
Lippi's 'Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas,'" in ROME IN THE RENAISSANCE,
ed. P.A. Ramsey, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies,
vol. 18 (Binghamton, N.Y., 1982)
- 'Filippino
Lippi's 'Wunder des heiligen Thomas von Aquin' in Rome
des späten
Quattrocento," ZEITSCHRIFT FüR KUNSTGESCHICHTE
47(1984):247-60
- "Francesco
Salviati e gli affreschi della cappella del cardinale di Brandeburgo
a Roma," ARTE CRISTIANA 73(1985):181-194
- "L'arte
religiosa romana all'arrivo di raffaello," in RAFFAELLO
E L'EUROPA, ATTI DEL IV CORSO INTERNAZIONALE DI ALTA CULTURA,
Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei, Centro di Studi sulla cultura e l'immagine
di Rome, ed. Marcello Fagiolo e Maria Luisa Madonna (Rome,
1990):27-48
- "Partial
Clues to a Mystery: The Elvehjem's Bernardo Strozzi," ELVEHJEM
MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN (1995-97):25-28
In press:
- "Fra Angelico,
Motherhood, and the Dominican Collective Memory," for Festschrift
in honor of Kurt W. Forster, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie
der Architecktur (Zürich).
In progress:
- Book
length manuscript "Art and Spirituality in Fifteenth-Century
Florence: Fra Angelico and Dominican Reform at San Marco"
- Article on
Pietro Venir's commission of Brustolon's suite of furniture for
late 17th c. Venetian palace.
Awards & Honors:
- Fellow of the
Institute for Research in the Humanities/UW-Madison, 1981;
- First Place
Award for a Scholoarly Work, 1986, Council for Wisconsin Writers,
for FILIPPINO LIPPI'S CARAFA CHAPEL: RENAISSANCE ART IN ROME
- Publication
Subsidy Grant from the J.Paul Getty Trust for the same study, 1984;
- NEH Postdoctoral
Research Grant to the Newberry Library, 1986
- Wisconsin Student
Association Teaching Award, 1991
- Hilldale Fellowship
for Undergraduate/Faculty Research: 2000, 1995
- Mark Mensink
Honors Award Faculty/student recognition: 1997, 1994
- Chair of Department
of Art History 1997-2001.
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