CURRICULUM VITAE
JOHN BELDON SCOTT
(October 7, 2013)
ACADEMIC ADDRESS:
School of Art & Art History
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
TELEPHONE: 319-335-1771 (o)
E-MAIL: jb-scott@uiowa.edu
EDUCATION: 1982--Rutgers University, Ph.D. in Art History
1975--Rutgers University, M.A. in Art History
1973--Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
1969-1973--U.S. Air Force
1969--University of California, Santa Barbara
1968--Indiana University, B.A. in History
ACADEMIC POSITIONS: 2009-present, Director, School of Art & Art History, University of
Iowa
2011-present, Director, Grant Wood Art Colony and Fellowship
Program
2004-, Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts, University of
Iowa
2007, Robert Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor in Art and
Archaeology, Princeton University
1982-, University of Iowa, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,
Professor (current rank)
1981-1982, University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer
1979, Rutgers University in Urbino, Italy, Instructor
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Barberini, Princeton, 1991. [College Art
Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Subvention] [Reviewed in: The Art Bulletin,
The Burlington Magazine, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Journal of the Society of Archtitectural
Historians, Kunstchronik, The New York Review of Books, Palladio, Renaissance
Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Word and Image]
Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin, Chicago, 2003. [Awarded 2004 Charles
Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association] [Reviewed in: CAA (College Art
Association) Reviews; Kunstform: Rezensionsjournal zur Kunstgeschichte; Sehepunkte:
Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften; Nexus Network Journal: Architecture
and Mathematics Online; Renaissance Quarterly; Sixteenth Century Journal; Journal of the
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Society of Architectural Historians; Art History; Newsletter/Society of Architectural
Historians of Great Britain; Material Religion]
Guidebook to The University of Iowa Campus Architecture, Iowa City, 2006. [Co-authored with
Rodney P. Lehnertz, and with the assistance of Caroline Casey]
Editorial:
Associate Editor, Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture, 3 vols., Cambridge
University Press (scheduled for publication in 2015).
Invited Articles and Book Chapters:
“Uses of the Past: Charles V’s Roman Triumph and Its Legacy,” in Architecture and the Classical
Tradition: Essays in Honor of Pierre de la Rufinière du Prey, ed. M.M. Reeve, Turnhout
(Belgium), 2013, 1-17. (in press)
“Fashioning a Capital: The Politics of Space in Early Modern Turin,” in The Politics
of Space: European Court, ca. 1500-1750, eds. M. Fantoni, G. Gorse, & M.
Smuts, Rome, 2009, 141-170.
“’Per stupire l’intelletto’: Guarini e il significato dell’architettura,” Guarino Guarini, 1624-1683,
G. Dardanello, S. Klaiber, & H.A. Millon, Turin, 2007, 90-95.
“Galileo and Urban VIII: Science and Allegory at Palazzo Barberini,” in I Barberini e la cultura
europea del seicento, eds., L. Mochi Onori, S. Schütze, & F. Solinas, Rome, 2007, 127-136.
“Ostension of the Holy Shroud in Piazza Castello: Architecture and Ritual,” in Sindone e scienza:
atti III Congresso Internazionale di Studi sulla Sindone, eds. P.L. Baima Bollone, M.
Lazzero, & C. Marino, CD-ROM, Turin, 2002, 1-5.
“La Cappella reliquiaria di Guarini e l’ostensione della Sindone,” Sindon, n.s., XI, no. 11,
1999, 37-74.
"Cortona's Pigneto Sacchetti David Cycle and Patron-Client Affiliation in Early Modern
Rome," in Pietro da Cortona (Atti del convegno internazionale Roma-Firenze, eds.
C.L. Frommel & S. Schütze, Milan, 1998, 101-107.
"La Cappella del Guarini: la reliquia, il rituale e la committenza," in Sindone: cento anni di
ricerca, eds. B. Barberis & G.M. Zaccone, Rome, 1998, 135-153.
"Strumento di potere: Pietro da Cortona tra Barberini e Pamphilj," in Pietro da Cortona,
1597-1669, ed. A. Lo Bianco, Milan, 1997, 87-98.
"Guarino Guarini and a Theatine Devotional Manual on the Veneration of the Holy
Shroud," Regnum Dei, LI, 1995, 359-364. (Festschrift in honor of Francesco
Andreu)
"Urban VIII, Bernini, and the Countess Matilda," in L'Âge d'or du mécénat (1598-1661,
(Actes du colloque international, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique),
Paris, 1985, 119-27.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
"Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turin and the Ostension of a Dynastic
Relic," The Art Bulletin, LXXVII, 1995, 609-637.
"Guarino Guarini's Invention of the Passion Capitals in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud,
Turin," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, LIV, 1995, 294-321.
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"Patronage and the Visual Encomium during the Pontificate of Urban VIII: The Ideal
Palazzo Barberini in a Dedicatory Print," in Memoirs of the American Academy in
Rome, XXXVI, 1995, 197-234.
"The Art of the Painter's Scaffold: Pietro da Cortona in the Barberini Salone," The
Burlington Magazine, CXXXV, 1993, 327-337.
"Pietro da Cortona's Payments for the Barberini Salone," The Burlington Magazine,
CXXXI, 1989, 416-418.
"The Meaning of Perseus and Andromeda in the Farnese Gallery and on the Rubens
House," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LI, 1988, 250-260.
"The Counter-Reformation Program of Borromini's Biblioteca Vallicelliana," Storia
dell'Arte, XLV, 1985, 295-304.
"S. Ivo alla Sapienza and Borromini's Symbolic Language," Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians, XLI, 1982, 294-317.
"The Catafalques of Philip II in Saragossa," Studies in Iconography, 1979, 107-34.
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Borromini, Francesco,” in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World,
ed. J. Dewald, 6 vols., New York, 2004, I, 285-287.
"Barberini Family," in The Dictionary of Art, 34 vols., London, 1996, III, 204-209.
Book Reviews:
“Review of Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan
Convents by Helen Hills,” in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, LXVII,
2008.
“Review of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque by Evonne Levy,” in “CAA (College Art
Association) Reviews,” 2007.
“Review of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger: Sources, Works, Collections,” in Journal of the
Society of Archtitectural Historians, LXV, 2006.
“Review of Storia dell’Architettura italiana: il settecento, by Giovanna Curcio and Elisabeth
Kieven, eds.,” in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, LXI, 2002.
"Review of In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters by Richard A. Etlin," in
The Art Bulletin, LXXX, 1998.
"Review of Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline
Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore by Steven Ostrow," in The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX,
1997.
"Review of Sixtus V and the Lateran Palace by Corinne Mandel," in RACAR: Canadian Art
Review, XXII, 1997.
"Review of The Lateran in 1600: Christian Concord in Counter Reformation Rome by Jack
Freiberg," in The Art Bulletin, LXXVIII, 1996.
"Review of Pietro da Cortona: Der Aufstieg zum führenden Maler im barocken Rom by
Jörg Martin Merz," in The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIV, 1992.
LECTURES AND PAPERS:
Invited Conference/Lecture Series Participation:
2008: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Symposium Presentation: “Lenin’s Mausoleum
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2007:
2004:
1998:
1997:
1991:
1989:
1988:
1987:
1983:
1981:
1980:
1979:
and Soviet Ritual: Less is More.”
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, The Politics of Space: Courts in Europe and the
Mediterranean, ca. 1500-1750: “Fashioning a Capital: Ducal Urbanism and Ritual Space in
Early Modern Turin.”
Rome, International Conference, I Barberini e la Cultura Europea del XVII Secolo:
“Galileo and Urban VIII: Science and Allegory at Palazzo Barberini.”
Rutgers University, The Age of Galileo: Art and Science in Early Modern Italy
(Symposium): “Galileo and the Bad Pope: Images of Heliocentrism.”
University of Pennsylvania, Symposium in Celebration of Malcolm Campbell’s Seventieth
Birthday, “’This is Home’: The Heraldic Concetto in the Baroque Palace.”
Turin, Third International Congress on Shroud Studies: "Ostension of the Shroud:
Architecture and Ritual in Piazza Castello."
Rome-Florence, International Conference on Pietro da Cortona: "Villa del Pigneto
Sacchetti: La Storia di Davide."
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ: "The Architectural History of the
Shroud of Turin."
University of Illinois at Chicago, Program for Vitruvian Studies, Colloquium on Rule
and Invention in Vitruvius: "The Vitruvian Man: From Antiquity to Modernity.”
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, IL, Participant in
NEH-sponsored workshop, Music as a Cultural Institution in the Middle Ages at
the Renaissance: "Music at the Barberini Court, ca. 1630-1640" (lecture).
University of Illinois at Chicago, Colloquium for Vitruvian Studies: "Imagery in
Baroque and Contemporary Painting."
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, I.L. 60: A Celebratory Colloquium to
Honor Irving Lavin on His Sixtieth Birthday (Discussant).
The San Francisco Architectural Club, Colloquium on the Influence of the Baroque
on Current Architecture, Music, and Painting: "Program and Symbolism in
Contemporary Architecture: Two Case Studies--Stanley Tigerman and Robert A.M.
Stern" (lecture and panel discussion) and "Meaning and Accessibility in Baroque
Allegorical Painting" (lecture).
Paris, International Colloquium of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique:
"Urban VIII, Bernini, and the Countess Matilda.”
American Academy in Rome: "Wisdom and Providence in Palazzo Barberini."
American Academy in Rome: "Seventeenth-Century Roman Allegories of Wisdom."
New York City, Frick Collection-Institute of Fine Arts Symposium: "The Iconography of
the Pamphili Library in Rome."
Papers Read at Professional Meetings:
2014: New York, NY, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting: “The Balcony and the
Piazza: Palazzo Venezia.”
2011: Montreal, Canada, Renaissance Society of America: “Ritualizing the Past: Charles V’s
1536 Roman Triumph and Its Legacy.”
2009: Crystal City, VA, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning: “Planning for Floods at
the University of Iowa: A Challenge for Resilience and Sustainability” (co-authored
with Charles Connerly, Lucie Laurian, and James A. Thogmorton)
2000: London, Thirtieth International Congress of the History of Art: “God’s Death Image
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1997:
1996:
1993:
1992:
1988:
1987:
1986:
1984:
1982:
1981:
and the Patina of Time: The Shroud of Turin, 1353-2000.”
New York, NY, College Art Association Annual Meeting: "From the Hive to Eternity (and
Back): Historical Meanings of the Bee."
St. Louis, MO, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting: "Displaying the
Shroud: Ritual and Urbanism in Turin's Piazza Castello, 1578-1750."
Durham, NC, Southeastern College Art Conference Annual Meeting: "Guarini's Invention
of the Passion Order in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud."
Albuquerque, NM, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting: "The Chapel of the
Holy Shroud in Turin: Before and After Guarini."
Chicago, IL, College Art Association Annual Meeting: "The Ostension of the Shroud of
Turin and Its Impact on the Design of Guarini's Reliquary Chapel."
Chicago, IL, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting: "The Ideal Palazzo
Barberini: An Iconography of Architecture."
Arizona State University, Tempe, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference: "Heliocentricity,
Astrology, and Sun Symbolism: Urban VIII's Early Support of Galileo."
Boston, MA, College Art Association Annual Meeting: "The Art of Scaffold-Building in
Baroque Rome: Pietro da Cortona in the Salone Barberini.
Northwestern University, Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting: "The Conventions
of Italian Baroque Ceiling Painting: Proposal for an Analytical System."
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting: "Rubens'
Andromeda and the Iconography of Sensuous Style."
New York City, College Art Association Annual Meeting: "Cortona's Barberini Ceiling:
Epic Form and Epic Subject."
San Francisco, College Art Association Annual Meeting: "Borromini's Symbolic Language
and the Chapel of S. Ivo: A Documentary Study."
Invited Public Lectures:
2013: Centro Regional de Profesores del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, “El Paseo Nacional:
Washington, D.C.”
2011: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, Las Ciudades Totalitarias: Roma,
Berlín, Moscú
Centro Regional de Profesores del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, “Palacio Barolo-Palacio
Salvo: El Lenguaje Arquitectural de Mario Palanti”
Universidad de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, “Palacio Barolo-Palacio Salvo: The
Architectural Language of Mario Palanti
Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, “Palacio Barolo-Palacio Salvo: El
Lenguaje Arquitectural de Mario Palanti”
Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, “El Timonel del Estado: Un Proyecto
de Mario Palanti para la Italia Fascista “
2009: Florida International University, Miami, Florida, “Totalitarian Pleasures: Ideology and
Urban Streetscape under Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.”
2008: University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture, “Architecture and Iconography”
(lecture and studio design critique).
2007: Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art, keynote address, Temple
University/Philadelphia Museum of Art: “The Shroud of Turin as Visual Culture”
Princeton University: “Tyranny of the Façade: Social History and Roman Baroque
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2005:
2004:
2003:
2001:
Architecture.”
Knox College, Galesburg, IL: “’Façadism’ and the Social History of Baroque
Architecture.”
University of Iowa Museum of Art: “The Shroud of Turin as a Work of Art.”
Warsaw, Poland, Muzeum Pałac w Wilanowie, “Conventions of Baroque Ceiling and
Mural Painting.”
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN: “The Shroud of Turin as Visual Culture.”
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN: “The Shroud of Turin as a Work of Art.”
DePaul University, Chicago, IL: “Autopsy of an Architectural Monument: The Chapel of
the Holy Shroud.”
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA: “Autopsy of an Architectural
Monument: The Chapel of the Holy Shroud.”
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS:
Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2013.
Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowship Program, 2009.
Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 2007.
American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2000.
Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 1999-2000.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts Research Grant, 1999.
Trinity College Barbieri Grant in Italian History (Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture),
1994.
Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1993-1994.
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991-1992.
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1989.
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1986.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1984-1985.
American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship for Recent Ph.D. Recipients,
1984.
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1984.
Rome Prize Fellow, American Academy in Rome (Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant),
1979-1981).
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Venetian Studies Grant, 1979, 1986.
TEACHING:
Courses Taught:
“Baroque Rome”
“Western Art & Culture after 1400”
“Introduction to Baroque Visual Culture”
“Italian Baroque Art”
“Classical Architecture: Theory and Practice”
“City of Rome: Image and Ideology”
“Buildings & Society in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800”
“Paris and the Art of Urban Life” (co-taught)
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“Nazi and Stalinist Art”
“Seminar: Italian Baroque Ceiling Painting” (University of Pennsylvania, 1982)
“Seminar: History & Methods”
“Seminar: Baroque Patronage”
“Seminar: The Art of Self-Fashioning: Renaissance & Baroque”
“Seminar: Bernini”
“Seminar: Art & Absolutism in the Age of the Baroque”
“Seminar: Art and Ideology of the Painted Ceiling”
“Seminar: Buildings & Society” (Stanford University, 2000)
“Seminar: Architecture & Ritual in Early Modern Europe” (Princeton University, 2007)
“Seminar: Art & Spectacle”
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Committees & Boards:
Chair, Selection Committee, Society of Architectural Historians, De Montequin Fellowship,
2010-2011.
Selection Committee, College Art Association, Lifetime Achievement in Art History Writing,
2003-2008.
National Committee for the History of Art (International Congress of the
History of Art), 2001-2002, 2004-present.
Selection Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003.
Rome Prize Selection Committee, American Academy in Rome, 2000-2001.
Board of Directors, Society of Architectural Historians, 1997-2000.
Board of Directors Nominating Committee, College Art Association, 1998.
Chair, Keepers and Rosann S. Berry Fellowships Committee, Society of Architectural
Historians, 1997-1998.
Chair, Founders' Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians, 1997.
Co-Chair, College Art Association Ad Hoc Committee for the Review of Millard Meiss
Committee Procedures and Guidelines, 1997.
Advisory Committee, 400th Anniversary Exhibition on Pietro da Cortona,
organized by the Musei Capitolini and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e
Storici, Rome, 1996-1997.
Member/Chair, Millard Meiss Committee, Publication Subvention Fund Award Committee,
College Art Association of America, 1993-1997 (Chair, 1996-1997).
Board of Directors, Midwest Art History Society, 1986-1989.
Conference Organizer, Session Chair, Moderator, Etc.:
Session Chair, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2012.
Session Co-Chair, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2009.
Session Chair, Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2008.
Moderator, Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007.
Conference Organizer: Robert Janson-La Palme Colloquium in Art and Archaeology, Princeton
University, Architecture and Ritual in Early Modern Italy: Interdisciplinary Strategies of
Interpretation, 2007.
Session Chair, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2001.
Session Co-Chair, Italian Art Society, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los
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Angeles, CA, 1999.
Session Chair, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Seattle, 1995.
Session Chair, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1993.
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