Bernadine Barnes

Professor, Renaissance Art History

Core faculty, Women's and Gender Studies

Ph.D.: University of Virginia, Art History

Special interests:

• The role of prints in the dissemination of ideas, women in Renaissance art, responses to the art of Michelangelo
• The "Mediterranean Renaissance"--encounters with other traditions in Italian art
• Historiography, issues related to the display of art
  
  

Courses

Summer 2012:

• Art 103: History of Western Art (on-site in Europe, for information go to Eurotour)
  

Fall 2012:

• Art 272: Baroque Art
• Art 394: Issues in Art History
  

Other courses (check schedule):

• Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
• Art in the Age of Giotto, Dante, and the Plague
• Early Italian Renaissance Art
• High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
• History of Prints
• Topics in Gender and Art
• Seminars on topics in Renaissance art
  
  

Selected Publications:

• “The Understanding of a Woman: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo’s Christ and the Samaritan Woman,” Renaissance Studies (in press)
• Review of Sister Giustina Niccolini, The Chronicle of Le Murate, edited and translated by Saundra Weddle, in The European Legacy, scheduled to appear June, 2013
• Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century (Ashgate Publishing, 2010).
• “Skin, Bones, and Dust: On the Self-Portraits in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment,” Sixteenth Century Journal, 35 (2004), 969-986.
• Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response (University of California Press, 1999).
• "Aretino, the Public, and the Censorship of the Last Judgment," in Suspended Licenses: Studies in Censorship and the Visual Arts, ed. Elizabeth Childs (University of Washington Press, 1997), 59-84.
• "Metaphorical Painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment," Art Bulletin 77 (1995), 64-81.
• EVA / AVE: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints (Washington and New York, 1990). Co-author with H. Diane Russell.