Adrian Randolph
Leon E. Williams Professor
of Art History
Italian Medieval & Renaissance
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995
M.A. Courtauld Institute of Art,
University of London
A.B. Princeton University
e: adrian.randolph@dartmouth.edu
tel: 646-2987
office: 206 Carpenter
Art History 2, Introduction to Art History II
Art History 10, Themes in the History of Roman Art (FSP in Rome)
Art History 36, Italian Medieval Art and Architecture, 1200-1400
Art History 40, Florence 1400-1450: Culture, Politics, Society
Art History 41, Italian Visual Culture, 1450-1500
In addition to these courses, I teach specialized courses on Art & Gender, on Renaissance Portraiture, on Renaissance Mythologies and on the life and work of Sandro Botticelli. I also regularly lead both the department's senior seminar on Theory & Method in Art History and the department’s Foreign Study Program in Rome. Students interested in the Medieval and Renassance Studies concentration should feel free to come and speak with me.
Special Interests
Art history is a multifaceted project, which seeks to interpret the
range of visual, spatial and tactile experiences we associate with the category ‘art’. It is this multi-sensory territory,
and the range of historical materials it enables one to explore, that attracts me to the discipline. My research and teaching focus on
fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy, with an emphasis on the city-state of Florence.
My work tends to be thematic and my publications include studies of the development
of public political art, the material and visual culture of marriage, the social production
of urban spaces, and configurations of masculinity in the visual arts. I am completing a book addressing
gender and the experience of art in fifteenth-century Italy; I am also in the early stages of writing a
book-length study on early fifteenth-century Florentine paintings, sculptures and buildings. With Mark J. Williams,
I edit a book series, Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture (Dartmouth College Press/UPNE), which foregrounds the theoretical implications of new media on the study of visual culture. I currently serve on the International Advisory Board of the journal Art History.
Selected Publications
• Engaging Symbols: Gender, Politics, and Public Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2002).
• "Republican Florence, 1400-1434,” in Renaissance Florence, ed. Francls Ames-Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in preparation).
• "Renaissance Genderscapes,” in Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities, ed. Joan Hartman and Adele Seeff (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2006).
• "Gendering the Period Eye: deschi da parto and Renaissance Visual Culture," Art History 27, no. 4 (2004), 538-62.
• "Der homosoziale Blick in der Renaissance: Kunst, Geschlecht, Macht." In Männlichkeit im Blick: Visuelle Inszenierungen in der Kunst seit der Frühen Neuzeit. Ed. Mechtild Fend and Marianne Koos (Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau-Verlag, 2004).
• Likeness in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Printed and Medalic Portraits in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, special issue of Word & Image, ed. with T. Barton Thurber (spring 2003).
• "Renaissance Household Goddesses: Fertility, Politics, and the Gendering of Spectatorship," in The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe, ed. Karen R. Encarnacion and Anne L. McClanan (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 163-190.