BARNABY R. NYGREN
Department of Fine Arts, Loyola College in Maryland
4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210
410 617 2885 office, 410 617 5216 fax, brnygren@loyola.edu
Education
Harvard University—Doctorate in History of Art and Architecture (June, 1999)
Dissertation, “The Monumental Saint’s Tomb in Italy: 1260-1520,” examined the
iconographical and morphological development of funerary monuments for saints in the
context of period religious, political and artistic conditions. General examination fields:
Italian and Northern Renaissance art and architecture.
Courtauld Institute (London, UK)—Masters in Art History (May, 1991)
Special field: Italian Renaissance art. M.A. thesis “The Borgherini Bedroom Cycle”
studied the relationship between this example of domestic decoration, familial politics
and political change in the period following the return of the Medici to Florence in 1512.
Harvard University—Bachelors of Art in Philosophy (June, 1987)
Graduated cum laude.
Teaching
Loyola College in Maryland—Associate Professor (Fall 2004-present)
Tenured associate professor (tenured and promoted Fall 2009) in Renaissance and
Baroque art history. Teaching responsibilities include: the general art history survey
(Renaissance to Modern) and a range of intermediate and advanced courses largely
focused on Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. These include upper division
courses on the Baroque, the Italian Renaissance, and the Northern Renaissance and
seminar courses on Michelangelo and prints and printmaking in the West. Also
responsible for teaching Honors Art History, a course for students in Loyola's Honors
Program that examines the relationships between key texts and the monuments of
Western art. Served as Senior Project Advisor for senior project in art history (academic
year 2007-2008 and 2010-2011). Service includes: Academic Senate (Spring 2007present); member of Honors Program faculty (Fall ‘05-Spring '07 and Fall '08-present);
Core advisor (Fall ‘05-Fall '07, Fall '08-Spring ’09, Fall ’10-present); member of Key
Indicators Working Group (Summer 2008); member of Comparative Cultures and
Literary Studies Committee (Fall ‘04-present); member of Student Learning Assessment
Committee (Fall ‘05-Spring ’09 and Fall’10-present; Chair; Fall '06- Fall '07), member of
the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Committee (Fall ’09-present); National
Fellowships Committee (fall 2010-present); departmental library liaison (Fall ’05present); member of Medieval/Islamic Art Historian Search Committee (Spring 2007);
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faculty mentor in Core Portfolio Project (Fall '06-Spring '07), Collegium (Fall 2008present). I also have served as the point person for departmental and program assessment
of student learning.
Roger Williams University—Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2002-Spring 2004)
Teaching responsibilities included: the Renaissance to Modern art history survey, the
required general education course “Aesthetics: The Artistic Impulse,” and an
intermediate-level course on the art of the Italian Renaissance. Also taught the art history
department’s methodological and historiographical seminar, and an upper-level seminarlevel course on Michelangelo. Other responsibilities included: thesis and departmental
advising, and assisting in the art history program review. Member of University
Academic Standards Committee.
Duke University—Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2000-Winter 2001)
Courses taught included lecture courses on fifteenth-, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
Italian art. Also taught smaller lecture and seminar courses: “Michelangelo and His Age,”
and “The Art and Intellectual History of the Renaissance.”
Davidson College—Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 1999-Spring 2000)
Teaching responsibilities included a one semester survey of Western Art, lecture courses
on Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, and Baroque art and architecture.
Publications
“Cipresso or Tronco? Filippo Lippi's Beffa for the Nuns of Le Murate.” Forthcoming in
Source: Notes in the History of Art.
"'Preferring to Frequent the Doors of Churches:' Iconography, Observance and Viewer
Involvement in a Predella Panel by Fra Angelico," SECAC Review (December 2009).
"A Friend of the Bridegroom or a Lover of the Bride? The Cuckolding Angel in Filippo
Lippi’s Uffizi Madonna." Source: Notes in the History of Art (Fall 2008).
“’We First Pretend to Stand at a Certain Window:’ Window as Pictorial Device and
Metaphor in the Paintings of Filippo Lippi,” Source: Notes in the History of Art (Fall
2006).
“Una cosa che non e’: Perspective and Humour in the Paintings of Filippo Lippi,” Oxford
Art Journal (Fall 2006).
“Immersed in Things of the Body: Two Encounters in an Annunciation by Filippo Lippi,”
Studies in Iconography 25 (Winter 2004).
“Fra Angelico’s San Marco Altarpiece and the Metaphors of Perspective,” Source: Notes
in the History of Art (Fall, 2002).
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“Cognitive Psychology and the Reception of Raphael’s Portrait of Pope Julius II,”
Source: Notes in the History of Art (Winter, 2002).
“Puns, Polysemy and Interpretation in Filippo Lippi’s St. Jerome with SS. John the
Baptist and Ansanus” in Coming About . . . A Festschrift for John Shearman (Harvard
University Museums Press, 2002).
Book reviews in Renaissance Quarterly and Sixteenth-Century Journal. Exhibition
review in SHARPNews (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing).
Professional Presentations
SECAC Conference (October 2010)
Scheduled to present paper: “Do as I Say (and as I Do): Encouraging Students to Think
Like Art Historians.”
Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference: The Shape of Time in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance (December 2008)
Presented paper: “Masaccio's Waves: Time, Motion and the Perspectival Narrative.”
SECAC Conference (September 2008)
Presented paper: “Lippi, Joke Work and the Nuns of Le Murate.”
MAHS Conference (April 2008)
Presented paper: "Fra Angelico's Linaiuoli Tabernacle and the Modalities of Realism"
SECAC Conference (October 2007)
Presented paper: "Metaphorical Mirroring in Filippo Lippi's Barbadori Altarpiece and
Fra Angelico's San Marco Altarpiece."
MAHS Conference (March 2007)
Presented paper: "Perspective and the Problematic Body of Christ: The Perspectival
Eucharistic Tabernacle"
Friends, Foes and Lovers: Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance
Forum (April 2006)
Presented paper “A Friend of the Bridegroom or a Lover of the Bride: The Cuckolding
Angel in Filippo Lippi's Uffizi Madonna.”
CAA Conference (February 2006)
Presented paper “Andrea Castagno’s Vision of St. Jerome as Process and Experience.”
SECAC Conference (October 2005)
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Presented paper “Painting, Perspective and the Mother: A Psychological Reading of the
Work of Filippo Lippi.”
Women and Holiness: The Sacred Feminine in Visual Culture—Brigham Young
University (January 2005)
Presented paper: “E non potendo…ritraendole in pittura: Intimate Marian Devotion in
the Paintings of Filippo Lippi.”
Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (October 2004)
Presented paper at session in honor of John Shearman entitled “Ecclesiarum potius
terebat limina: Iconography, Narrative and Viewer Involvement in a Predella by Fra
Angelico.”
Science, Literature and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World—Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (October 2004)
Presented paper “Commo vera scientia: Piero della Francesca and the Problematic
Science of Perspective.”
Second Biennial Villa Spelman Conference, Florence: Truth and Falsehood in Early
Modern Italy (October 2004)
Presented paper “Tu potresti dire questa e’ falsa: Paolo Uccello and the Falsity of
Perspective.”
Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (October 2003)
Presented paper “Una cosa che non e’: The Problems and Possibilities of Perspective”
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Society Conference—Representation
and Reality (April 2003)
Presented paper “Perspective as Representation and Reality in Filarete and Paolo
Uccello.”
Convivium at the Siena College Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(October 2002)
Presented paper "Perspective and its Discontents: Comic Bodies and Spiritual Immediacy
in the Paintings of Filippo Lippi"
Decorum and Decadence: Virgins to Femme Fatales in Art—Loyola University of
Chicago (April 2002)
Presented paper “Immersed in Things of the Body: Two Encounters in an Annunciation
by Filippo Lippi.”
Temporality and Visuality Conference—Northwestern University (May 1998)
Presented paper “The Meaning of Disjunction: Space and Time in Filippo Lippi’s
Barberini Annunciation.”
Anonymity Conference—Harvard University (March 1997)
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Presented paper “The Viewer Viewed: Andrea Mantegna’s Camera Picta, Carnival and
the Loss of Viewer Identity.”
Conference Panels Organized
SECAC Conference (October 2009)
Organized and chaired session “Homo faber/Homo ludens: Visual Wit and Pictorial Play
in Art.”
Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (October 2004)
With Graham Larkin organized and chaired session “Visual Wit and Pictorial Play in
Netherlandish Art.”
Curatorial Experience
Mellon Curatorial Fellow—Fogg Museum (Harvard, Spring 1993)
Devised a plan for the display of the museum’s Renaissance holdings in the Warburg
Hall exhibition space. Assisted in the drafting of a successful grant proposal to fund this
installation.
Community Service
CTY Odyssey Program—Johns Hopkins University (April 2008)
Presented workshop, “Leonardo's Last Supper: Beyond the Di Vinci Code,” to collegebound high school and middle school students.
Baltimore Museum of Art—Accessions Committee Member (Fall 2006-Fall 2008,
Fall 2009-present)
Professional Affiliations
Member: College Art Association, Renaissance Society of America, Southeastern
College Art Association.
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