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vernon.minor@colorado.edu
303-492-7234
office: N196
Education
B.A. Kent State University, l968 (English Literature)
M.A. The University of Kansas, l972 (Art History)
Ph.D. The University of Kansas, l976 (Art History). With Honors
Books:
Baroque Visual Rhetoric (in preparation)
The Death of the Baroque in the Birth of Good Taste (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
Baroque & Rococo: Art & Culture (London: Calmann & King, Ltd.,1999; New York: Harry Abrams, 1999; Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1999). Chinese Simplified Character edition (Guangxi, China: Guangxi University Press, 2003).
Passive Tranquillity: the Sculpture of Filippo della Valle (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, Transactions Series, 1997).
Art History's History (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall; New York: Harry H. Abrams, 1994; 2nd ed. 2000). Japanese edition (Tokyo: Brücke Publishing, Inc., 2003).
Articles and Chapters in Books:
“Karlheinz Stockhausen, 9/11, and the Art Metaphor,” Journal of American Studies in Turkey, forthcoming.
“The Corsini Chapel: a Neoclassical Museum?” forthcoming in Estetica & Ermeneutica, ed. Gianni Vattimo and Roberto Salizzoni (Turin: Trauben, 2004).
“Ideology and Interpretation in Rome’s Parrhasian Grove: the Arcadian Garden and Taste,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 46, 2001 [2002], 183-228.
“What is Buon Gusto? The Arcadian View,” Antologia di Belle Arti, nn. 59-62, 2000, 72-84.
“Marcantonio Colonna’s Gift to Benedict XIV: a Portrait by Bernardino Ludovisi,” Antologia di Belle Arti, nn. 59-62, 2000, 54-57.
“Art History and Intertextuality,” Storia dell’Arte, n. 92, 1998, 132-142.
"Shapes of the Invisible: Bernini's Fiery Angels in Saint Peter's," artibus et historiae, n. 19, 1989, 149-156.
"Filippo della Valle's Tomb of Innocent XII: Death and Dislocation," Gazette des beaux-arts, CXII, 1988, 133-140.
"The Recollection and Undermining of Allegory in Eighteenth-Century Roman Sculpture," Storia dell'Arte, n. 57, 1986, 183-191.
“Della Valle or Cayot? The Art of Deceiving Well,” Apollo, June 1986, 418-21.
"Tommaso Righi's Roman Sculpture: a Catalogue," The Burlington Magazine, CXXVI, l984, 668-75.
"Filippo della Valle as Metalworker," The Art Bulletin, LXVI, 1984, 511-14.
"Sculpture on the Façade of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme," Source: Notes in the History of Art, II, 1983, 21-24.
"The Mind's Road to God: a Recorded Commission for Paolo Cavaceppi," The Art Bulletin, LXV, 1983, 485-88.
"References to Artists and Works of Art in Chracas' Diario ordinario, l760-85," Storia dell'Arte, n. 46, 1982, 217-77.
"An Early Neo-Classical Tomb by Pacilli," Apollo, CXIII, 1981, 44-45.
"Della Valle's last commission," The Burlington Magazine, CXXII, 1980, 60-61.
“Della Valle and G. B. Grossi Revisited," Antologia di belle arti, II, 1978, 233-247.
"Peter Paul Rubens and the Society of Jesus" (with Erik Larsen), Konsthistorisk tidskrift , XLVI, 1977, 48-54.
"Filippo della Valle's Memorial to Sampaio: An Attribution Resolved," The Burlington Magazine, CXVII, 1975, 659-663.
Fellowships:
Visiting Fellow, Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Rome, Italy, February-May, 2001.
NEH Senior Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 1999-2000.
Member and Participant, Center for the Humanities and the Arts, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-99, year-long seminar, “Beauty and its Discontents.”
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, 1997-98.
Fellow, Center for Theory in the Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, l985-86.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, l982.
Summer Research Initiation Faculty Fellowship and Travel Grant, The University of Colorado, l978.
Graduate School Honors Fellowship. The University of Kansas, l975, for dissertation research in Rome.
Samuel Kress History of Art Fellowship, The University of Kansas, 1974-75, for dissertation research in Rome.
Samuel Kress History of Art Fellowship, The University of Kansas, l971-72.
Public Lectures:
“Rome’s Pastoralism and Some Versions of Good Taste,” College Art Association, Annual Meeting, New York City, February 2003.
“From Pastoral Word to Pastoral Image,” Northeast American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, New York City, October 2002.
“The Role of Theory in Art History,” SECAC (Southeast College Art Association Convention), Mobile, Alabama, October 2002.
“Death of the Baroque,” lecture given at the University of South Carolina and at the College of Charleston, April 2002.
"Taste and the Arcadian Garden, " SECAC Meeting, Columbia, S.C., October 2001.
"Buon Gusto," for the conference "Gusto Antico, Gusto Moderno, e Buon Gusto," jointly sponsored by L'Accadémie de France à Rome and the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, May 15, 2001.
"Death of the Baroque," Trinity College, Rome Campus, May, 2000.
"Arcadian Taste: Art and Buon Gusto in Eighteenth-Century Rome," American Academy in Rome, March 3, 2000.
"Papal Tombs and Memory," for the panel, "Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) as an Enlightenment Patron of the Arts" (Chair, Edward J. Olszewski), Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland, July 1999.
"Art History and the Ideo/Psychology of Wölfflin's Classic Art ," in "Wölfflin's Classic Art: Is it Still a Classic?" SECAC Meeting, Miami, October 1998.
"The Baroque Collection," Princeton Art Museum, February 1998.
"The Roman Arcadia and the Politics of Taste," Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, January 1998.
"Landscapes of the Mind: The Arcadian Academy and Eighteenth-Century Painting," Amy M. Sacker Memorial Lectureship, Mt. Holyoke College, November 1997.
"Recollection, Construction, and Ecclesiastical Art," as part of a conference on Memory, Representation, & Culture, Utah State University, May 1995.
"Intertextuality and Art History," University of Wyoming, April 1995.
"Art History's History and the 'Plight' of the Art Historian," Webster University, February 1995.
"Arcadia Regained," paper presented at College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, February, 1992.
"Arcadia as Genre", paper presented at "Frameworks," Association of Art Historians, Courtauld Institute of Art and King's College, University of London, April, l991.
"The Freud Collection," exhibition and conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, July l990. Respondent to Donald Kuspit in symposium "Excavating Freud."
"Word and Image," conference with W. J. T. Mitchell and W. Steiner, University of Colorado at Boulder, Respondent to Wendy Steiner, April l989.
"The Priority of Style in Filippo della Valle's Memorial of Innocent XII," Eighteenth-Century Studies Association, Notre Dame University, October l988.
"Form Teases Content: problems of allegorizing in l8th-century Roman sculpture," Conference on Interdisciplinary Study of the Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, October, l986.
"Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum," Aspen Art Center, Aspen, Colorado, July l984.
"Allegory in l8th-Century Italian Sculpture," interdisciplinary colloquium ("Tradition and Change in the Arts of the Eighteenth Century"), Boulder, October l984.
"Two Documents for the Roman Academy of Saint Luke," College Art Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, February l984.
"Paintings from the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza," a series of lectures for the staff of the Denver Art Museum, November-December l980, and January-February l981.
"Mystical Hierarchy in Bernini's Cathedra Petri," The University of Iowa, Iowa City, April l980.
"Filippo della Valle and Pietro Bracci: New Attributions," Mid-America College Art Association Meeting, Kansas City, October l975.
"Some Aspects of Platonism in Caravaggio's Amore Vincitore," Mid-West Art History Conference, Chicago, May l974.
Colloquium on Nicolas Poussin's Triumph of Bacchus (the Richelieu Commission), The Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, December l973.
Travel Grants:
Travel Grant to Rome, Dean's Fund for Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001, 1999.
Travel Grant to Rome, Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001, 2000, 1997, 1995.
Travel Grant to Paris and Besançon, France, Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999.
Travel Grant to Florence, Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities, The University of Colorado, 1996.
Travel Grant to Washington, D.C., Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities, The Univeristy of Colorado, 1992.
Travel Grant to Rome, American Philosophical Society, 1991.
Travel Grants to Rome, Council on Research and Creative Work, The University of Colorado, l985, 1982, 1979.
Travel Grant to London, Council on Research and Creative Work, The University of Colorado, l984.
Travel Grant to London, American Philosophical Society, l982.
Other grants and awards:
IMPART, University of Colorado at Boulder. Grant for Visiting Scholar Program, 1996.
President's Fund for the Humanities, University of Colorado, 1996
Excellence in Teaching Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, l988.
Other grants and awards:
IMPART, University of Colorado at Boulder. Grant for Visiting Scholar Program, 1996; President’s Fund for the Humanities, University of Colorado, 1996; Excellence in Teaching Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, l988.
Consultant:
Hugh Honour & John Fleming, The Visual Arts: A History. 4th edition (London and Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall & Calmann & King, Ltd., 1995).
Marilyn Stokstad, Art History (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and New York: Prentice-Hall and Harry Abrams, 1996).
Encyclopedia Britannica, Adviser for Seventeenth-Century European Art.
Employment:
University of Colorado at Boulder, 1976- present, Tunured Full Professor, Departments of Fine Arts and Comparative Literature/Humanities
Chair, Department of Fine Arts, The University of Colorado at Boulder, l994-96.
Chair, Department of Humanities, The University of Colorado at Boulder, l993-94.
Director, The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Colorado at Boulder, l985-86.
Director, "Art History in Italy: Florence, Venice and Rome," The University of Colorado Summer Study Abroad Program, l980--present.
Associate Director, The University of Colorado Museum, l981-84.
Classroom Teacher, Elementary Division, Prince George's County Board of Education, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, l968-70.
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