Stephen G. Perkinson

Assistant Professor of Art History

Spring 2008

  • Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (ARTH 215)
  • The Early Modern Printed Image (ARTH 216)
Phone (207) 798-7080
Title Assistant Professor
Department ART
Work Location 104 Visual Arts Center
E-Mail sperkins@bowdoin.edu
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Education

Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1998
Colgate University, B.A., 1989

Teaching appointments

Bowdoin College, 2002-present.
University of Denver, 1999-2002.
Skidmore College, 1998-1999.

Major Grants and Fellowships

1999-2000
J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities.
1995-1996
Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Cultural Services, Embassy of France.
1995-1996
Belgian-American Educational Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

Research Interests

Art of the French Courts, c. 1400
The illustration of secular manuscripts in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance
Artistic interactions between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Publications

About Face: The Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France, book project in preparation.

"Likeness and Loyalty: Portraiture in the Calendar Scenes of the Très Riches Heures," in Quaerendo 37 (2007, forthcoming).

set in stone "Sculpting Identity," in Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Art, ed. Charles T. Little (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006), 120-123. (Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Art," on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, 26 September 2006 through 18 February 2007.)

"Courtly Splendor, Urban Markets: Some Recent Exhibition Catalogues," in Speculum 81:3 (2006), 1150-1157.

"From 'Curious' to Canonical: Jehan Roy de France and the Origins of the French School," The Art Bulletin 87:3 (2005): 507-532.

"Portraits and Counterfeits: Villard de Honnecourt and Thirteenth-Century Theories of Representation," forthcoming in Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences - Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman, Nina A. Rowe and David Areford, eds. (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Press, 2004), 13-35.

"From an Art de Memoire to the Art of Portraiture: Printed Effigy Books of the Sixteenth Century," The Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 .

"Engin and artifice: Describing Creative Agency at the Court of France, c. 1400," Gesta, 41:2 (2002), 51-67.

Co-editor of Artistic Identity in the Late Middle Ages. Special issue of Gesta, 41 (2002).

"Reproductive Engravings in the Block Gallery," Blockpoints, 2 (1995): 64-81.

"Insurgent Voices: Illuminated Versions of Christine de Pizan's Livre du duc des vrais amans" (co-authored with Sandra Hindman), in The City of Scholars: New Approaches to Christine de Pizan, Zimmermann and De Rentiis editors, (New York and Berlin: De Gruyter, 1994), 221-231

Exhibitions Curated at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

"From "Saint Makers" to Artists:
Prints and Printmakers in the Northern Renaissance," March - April, 2003