Adrian Randolph

Title: Professor of Art History
Office: 208 Carpenter Hall
Phone: 646 2987
Personal Web Site: Adrian Randolph

Medieval and Renaissance Courses Taught

• ARTH 10: Themes in the History of Roman Art (FSP)
• ARTH 36: Italian Medieval Art & Architecture 1200–1400
• ARTH 40: Florence 1400–1450: Culture, Politics, Society
• ARTH 41: Italian Visual Culture 1450-1500   
• ARTH 83: Renaissance Chapels 

Areas of Research Interest

• Italian medieval and Renaissance art and architecture, with specific emphasis on Tuscany, gender, and critical theory.

Important, Recent, or Major Publications

• Engaging Symbols: Gender, Politics, and Public Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.
• Likeness in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Printed and Medallic Portraits in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Ed. with T. Barton Thurber. Word & Image 19, nos. 1 and 2 (2003). Authored introduction.
• “Der homosoziale Blick in der Renaissance: Kunst, Geschlecht, Macht.” In Männlichkeit im Blick: Visuelle Inszenierungen in der Kunst seit der Frühen Neuzeit. Literatur–Kultur–Geschlecht, vol. 30. Ed. Mechtild Fend and Marianne Koos. Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau-Verlag, 2004.
• “Gendering the Period Eye: deschi da parto and Renaissance Visual Culture.” Art History 27, no. 4, 538–62 (2005).
• “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.
• “Gaze,” and “Jewellery.” In Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret Schaus. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
• “Republican Florence, 1400–1434.” In Renaissance Florence. Ed. Francis Ames-Lewis for the series Artistic Centers of the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• “The Bust’s Gesture.” In Köpfe und Büste. Ed. Jeanette Kohl and Rebecca Müller. Florence: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz/Max-Planck-Institut; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, forthcoming.