Marcia B. Hall
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Education:
B.A. Wellesley
College, M.A. Radcliffe College, Ph.D,
Harvard University.
Major Fellowships:
Fulbright Fellowship to
Italy, 1963-64.
Fellow, Villa I Tatti
(Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance
Studies), Florence, 1971-2.
NEH Fellowship,
1979-80.
Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, Visitor, 1987-88.
NEH Fellowship for
University Professors, 1995-96.
Fulbright Senior
Research Fellowship to Italy, 2002-03.
NEH Fellowship,
2006-07.
Villa I Tatti, Florence
(Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance
Studies), Visiting Scholar, Fall, 2006.
CASVA, Senior Visiting
Fellowship, Winter, 2007.
Other Grants and
Awards:
Study Leave, Temple
University, 1979-80; 1987-88; 1995-96,
2002-03.
Summer Research
Fellowship, Temple University, 1974, 1983,
1993, 1999, 2001, 2006.
Grant-in-Aid for
research travel, Temple University, 1975,
1976, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1993, 1999,
2001, 2006; for photographs, 1997, 2004.
NEH Conference Grant
for "Color & Technique in Renaissance
Painting," held at Temple University,
September, 1980.
NEH Conference Grant
for "Raphael: Science and History in
Dialogue," Co-Director with J. Shearman,
Princeton University, October, 1983.
Kress Foundation grant,
matching funds for Raphael conference.
Getty Trust
grants-in-aid of publication: 1985 for
Color & Technique in Renaissance Painting;
1990 for Color and Meaning.
NEH Summer Seminar for
College Teachers, Profs. Bober and Gaisser,
participant, Rome, 1990: “Roman Humanism.”
NEH Summer Seminar for
College Teachers, Director, Rome, 1992:
“Roman Painting, 1480-1550: New Approaches.”
Temple University
Creative Achievement Award, 1993.
Kress Foundation grant
to aid publication of After Raphael,
1997.
Millard Meiss
Publication Fund of the College Art
Association, grant to aid publication of
After Raphael, 1997.
Lila Wallace-Reader’s
Digest Publication Subsidy at Villa I Tatti,
for Rome in the series Artistic
Centers of the Italian Renaissance,
1999.
NEH Summer Institute
for College and University Teachers,
participant, Mexico City and New Mexico,
1998: “Center and Periphery in New Spain:
16th and 17th Century Spanish and Indigenous
Cultures in Mexico and New Mexico.”
Academic Positions:
1973- Tyler
School of Art, Temple University, Assistant
-full Professor.
1976-79 Chairman.
1997- Director of
Graduate Studies.
Visiting
lecturer/professor University of
Pennsylvania, 1983.
Clark Professor,
Williams College Graduate Program, 1986.
Visiting Professor,
University of Delaware, Graduate Program,
fall, 1999
Publications:
Books authored:
Renovation and
Counter-Reformation: Vasari and Duke Cosimo
in Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce,
1565-77, Oxford-Warburg Series, Oxford
University Press, 1979.
Color and Meaning:
Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting,
Cambridge University Press, 1992; paperback
edition, 1994.
Michelangelo: The
Sistine Ceiling Restored, Rizzoli
International Publications Art, Series;
editor, Norma Broude, 1993..
After Raphael:
Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth
Century. Cambridge University Press,
1999, paperback edition, 2001.
Michelangelo. The
Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Abrams,
2002. Italian, French, Hungarian
translations.
Books edited:
Color & Technique in
Renaissance Painting. Editor and
contributor: Introduction and “From Modeling
Techniques to Color Modes.” J.J. Augustin,
Locust Valley, 1987.
The Princeton
Raphael Symposium, co-editor with John
Shearman, Princeton University Press, 1990.
Raphael’s School of
Athens. Editor and contributor.
Masterpieces of Western Painting. Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
The Cambridge
Companion to Raphael, Editor and
contributor: Introduction, and “Classicism,
Mannerism, and the Relieflike Style.”
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Michelangelo’s
Last Judgment. Masterpieces
of Western Painting. Editor and contributor:
Introduction and “Michelangelo’s Last
Judgment as Resurrection of the Body: the
Hidden Clue.” Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Rome (in the
series below). Editor and contributor:
Introduction, and Chap. 2, “1503-1534.”
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Edited books in progress:
Artistic Centers of the Italian
Renaissance. Series Editor. 5 volumes,
multi-authored, organized by site e.g.,
Naples, Florence, Venice etc., to be
published over the next 4 years by Cambridge
University Press. 5 volumes contracted, My
job is to select the editor for each volume,
discuss the shape the volume might take,
critique/approve the prospectus; manage the
illustration program, for which we have
received a grant from the Kress Foundation
for $180,000; write a Preface to each volume
and critique/approve each volume when
submitted.
Book in progress:
The Sacred Image in the Renaissance.
Articles:
"The Tramezzo in Santa Croce, Florence, and
Domenico Veneziano's Fresco," Burlington
Magazine 112 (1970): 797-99.
"The Operation of Vasari's Workshop and the
Design for Santa Maria Novella and Santa
Croce," Burlington Magazine, April,
1973.
"The Ponte in Santa Maria Novella,:The
Problem of the Rood Screen in Italy,” Journal
of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes,
37(1974): 157-73.
"The Tramezzo in Santa Croce,
Reconsidered," Art Bulletin 56
(1974): 325-41.
"Michelangelo's Last Judgment;
Resurrection of the Body and
Predestination," Art Bulletin
58 (1976): 85-92. Reprinted in William E
Wallace, ed. Michelangelo. Selected
Scholarship in English. Volume 4:
Tomb of Julius II and other works in Rome.
New York:
Garland, 1995.
"The Italian Rood Screen: Some Implications
for Liturgy and Function," Essays
presented to Myron P. Gilmore. Sergio
Bertelli and Gloria Ramakus, eds. Villa I
Tatti, vol. 2, 213-19. Florence: La Nuova
Italia, 1978.
"From Modeling Techniques to Color Modes,"
in Color & Technique in Renaissance
Painting, Locust Valley, 1987.
"Introduction," in The Princeton Raphael
Conference, Princeton, 1990.
"Savonarola and the
Patronage of Art,"
in Christianity
& the Renaissance, 493-522,Timothy
Verdon & John Henderson, eds., Syracuse,
1990.
“Wisdom in God’s Embrace: Michelangelo’s
Creation of Adam,” letter to the editor,
Art Bulletin, 75 (1993): 340.
"Colore e significato nella volta della
cappella sistina," in Michelangelo, la
cappella sistina, Documentazione e
interpretazioni, III: Acts of the
International Conference on Michelagelo’s
Sistine Chapel, Vatican, 1990, Novara, 1994.
“Sixtus V: A Program for the decorum of
images,” Arte Cristiana 96 (1998),
41-48.
“Sebastiano del Piombo fra innovazione e
sperimentazione.” In Notturno Sublime.
Sebastaino e Michelangelo nella Pietà di
Viterbo, exh. cat. Ed, Costanza Barbieri,
Rome: Viviani, 2004, 43-48.
“The Rood Screen in the Italian Renaissance,
Revisited,” in Thresholds of the Sacred.
Dumbarton Oaks Papers.. Harvard
University Press, 2006.
“Politics and the Relief-like Style.” Papers
of the conference, “The introduction of the
Raphaelesque style at the Italian courts in
the sixteenth century.” to be published by
Groningen University [2007].
Encyclopedia Entries:
Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance,
ed., J. Hale, articles on Church
Architecture and Liturgy, Allori, Bronzino,
Cigoli, Santi di Tito, Thames and Hudson,
1982.
Encyclopedia of the
Renaissance; “Painting;” “Raphael.”
Paul F. Grendler, ed., Scribner’s, 1999.
Dictionary of Early Modern Europe:
1450-1789: “Mannerism.” Freeman and
Linda Bauer, eds. Scribner’s, 2003.
The Classical Tradition: “Color.” A.
Grafton, G. Most, S. Settis, Harvard [in
press].
Reviews:
Mary Gibbons, Giambologna, in
Catholic Historical Review, 1996.
Rona Goffen, Renaissance Rivals:
Michelangelo Leonardo, Raphael, Titian,
in Renaissance Quarterly, 2003.
Art Criticism:
“Lisa Yuskavages’s Painterly Paradoxes.” In
Lisa Yuskavage, exh. cat,
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art,
2000.
Listing:
Who’s Who in America.
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