Curriculum Vitae
Bernadine Barnes
Art Department, Wake Forest University
Box 7232 Reynolda Station
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
barnes@wfu.edu
Employment
1989-present
Wake Forest University, full professor since 2008
Education
1981-1986 University of Virginia, Ph.D. with distinction, 1986
1979-1981
University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1981
1970-1973
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, B.A. with high honors
Research Grants
2003
NEH Summer Stipend
2003, 2004
Mellon Foundation Grants for course development
1988-1989
ACLS Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D.
1988
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for research travel
1983-1984
Fulbright Fellowship for dissertation research
Publications
Books and Catalogues
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Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century (Farnham,
England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2010).
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Michelangelo's Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1998).
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EVA / AVE: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints (Washington and New York, 1990).
Co-author with H. Diane Russell.
Articles:
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“The Understanding of a Woman: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo’s Christ and the
Samaritan Woman,” submitted to Renaissance Studies.
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“Skin, Bones, and Dust: On the Self-Portraits in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment,” Sixteenth
Century Journal, 35 (2004), 969-986.
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"Aretino, the Public, and the Censorship of the Last Judgment," in Suspended Licenses:
Studies in Censorship and the Visual Arts, ed. Elizabeth Childs (Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1997), 59-84.
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"Metaphorical Painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment," Art Bulletin 77 (1995),
64-81. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3046080
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"A Lost Modello for Michelangelo's Last Judgment," Master Drawings 26 (1988), 239-248.
Reprinted in Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English, ed. William E. Wallace (Hamden
CT: Garland Publishing). http://www.jstor.org/stable/1553898
Reviews (selected)
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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
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Review of Leonard Barkan, Michelangelo: A Life on Paper, in The European Legacy
scheduled to appear June, 2012.
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Review of James A. Connor, The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the
Renaissance, in The European Legacy, 16:3 (2011), 404.
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Review of Heinrich W. Pfeiffer, S.J., The Sistine Chapel: A New Vision, in Renaissance
Quarterly, 62 (2009), 525–526.
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Review of Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser, The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous
Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art on EH.net, Economics History Association, 2009.
http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1396.
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Review of Raymond B. Waddington, Aretino’s Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in
Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art, in Modern Philology, 106 (2008), 153-156.
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Review of Patricia Emison, The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence, and
Michael Cole (ed.), The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 39 (2008),
580-581.
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Review of Fredrika H. Jacobs, The Living Image in Renaissance Art, in Renaissance
Quarterly, 59 (2006), 499-500.
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Review of Francis Ames-Lewis and Paul Joannides, eds., Reactions to the Master:
Michelangelo’s Effect on Art and Artists in the Sixteenth Century, in Renaissance Quarterly,
57(2004), 993-995.
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Review of Evelyn Lincoln, The Invention of the Renaissance Printmaker, in Isis: The Journal
of the History of Science, 92 (2001), 601-602.
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Review of William Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Painting, Sculpture, and
Architecture, in CAA Reviews (2000), http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/wallace.html
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Review of James Beck, et al., Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel; Paul Barolsky, The Faun in
the Garden; William Wallace, Michelangelo at San Lorenzo; and Creighton Gilbert, On and
Off the Sistine Ceiling, in Art Bulletin, 77 (1995), 683-685.
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Review of John Shearman, Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance, in
Sixteenth Century Journal 23 (1992), 802-803.
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Review of James M. Saslow, The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation, in
Renaissance Quarterly, 45 (1992), 562-564.
Scholarly Presentations and Lecture Series (selected)
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“The Understanding of a Woman: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo’s Christ and the
Samaritan Woman,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Montreal, October 10, 2010.
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“Michelangelo’s Women,” invited lecture at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, April 17,
2009.
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“‘Reproductions’ of Michelangelo’s Architecture: Audience and Purpose,” Renaissance
Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 19, 2009.
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“From Sculpture to Print: The Reproductions (or Lack Thereof) of Michelangelo’s Sculpture,”
Symposium at Syracuse University in conjunction with the exhibit, “Michelangelo: The Man,
the Myth,” October 3, 2008.
Curated Exhibitions (selected)
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“Seeing Italy through Prints,” Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest (in
collaboration with Davidson College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University
of Georgia), February 6-March 23, 2003.
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EVA/AVE: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
DC, November 25, 1990-April 28, 1991; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, October 10,
1992-January 10, 1993.
Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminars
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Convener (with Monique O’Connell), Humanities Institute faculty seminar, “Cultural
Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean.”
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Participant in Mellon Foundation-funded faculty seminar, “East Asia in the Modern World,”
2003-2004.
Administrative and Editorial Positions (selected)
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Chair of Committee on Academic Planning, Wake Forest, 2010-2012
Phi Beta Kappa, Wake Forest Chapter, Secretary-Treasurer, 2010-present; president, 19981999.
Editorial Review Board, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005-2008.
Coordinator for Art History, Art Department, 2004-8
Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, 2003-2005; Fall 2006.
President of the Italian Art Society, 1999-2001
SACS Evaluation subcommittees for Art and the Women's Studies Program (1996-1997)
Professional Memberships
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College Art Association
Italian Art Society
Renaissance Society of America
Sixteenth-Century Studies Association