Professor Geraldine A. Johnson

Much of my research has focused on the history of sculpture from the late Medieval period to the present day, as well as on the visual arts more generally in Early Modern Europe. I have also worked on the history of photography, the historiography of Art History, and women and the visual arts. I have published on subjects ranging from the sculpture of Donatello and Rubens's female patrons, to art historians' reliance on photography and the contemporary sculptor Richard Serra.

Research Interests

• Early Modern Art and Culture
• History of Sculpture: Late Medieval to Contemporary
• Women and the Visual Arts
• History of Photography
• Historiography of Art History

I am the co-editor of a prize-winning volume entitled Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and the editor of Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning the Third Dimension (Cambridge University Press, 1998). In 2005, Oxford University Press published my book Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction, which has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Turkish, Thai and Vietnamese. At present, I am completing two books, one for Cambridge University Press entitled The Sound of Marble: The Materiality and Immateriality of Italian Renaissance Art, and another entitled Photography and Sculpture, which will be published by Reaktion Books. I have been commissioned by Wiley-Blackwell to edit a major anthology, A Companion to the Theories and Methods of Art History, and I also recently edited a volume entitled Crossing Continents: Exile and Expatriate Histories of Art. Future projects include a co-authored monograph, De-Facing the Portrait: The Early Modern Body in Parts (with Prof. Tatiana String), and an historiographical study entitled Art History's Images.

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