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  • email dnolta@massart.edu
  • phone (617) 879-7585
  • education
    • 1989 - Ph.D History of Art, Yale University
    • 1986 - M.Phil,
    • 1983 - MA, English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
    • 1982 - BA, English Literature and History of Art, University of Michigan

Industry Experience

Selected Lectures, Conference Papers, Readings

  • 2016 – “Something–But Not the Same Thing–in the Air: De Mura and Tiepolo and the Painting of Nothing,” Conference paper, Renaissance Society of America
  • 2016 – The Narrative Technique of Figural Mirroring in Renaissance and Baroque Art, John Hubbard Sturgis Eaton Endowed Lecture, Boston Athenaeum
  • 2013 – “Masterpieces of British Painting in the Yale Center for British Art,” Appraisal Studies in Art and Antiques Certification Program, Rhode Island School of Design
  • 2012 – “How They’re Hanging,” MassArt Continuing Education Lecture Series
  • 2011 & 2010 – “Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel” and “Caravaggio: A Life,” Menino Arts Center”
  • 2009 – “Caravernini,” Lecture, Circolo Sportivo Italiano, Bridgeport, CT
  • 2007 – “Reflections on Reflections in Art: Piero della Francesca, Flannery O’Connor, Carlos Saura,” Lecture, Yale Graduate Club

Selected Publications

  • 2016 – “Something–but not the same thing–in the air: De Mura, Tiepolo, and the Science of the Heavens” and “Francesco de Mura” essays for the catalogue of the upcoming exhibition, Francesco de Mura: In the Light of Naples (Rollins College, Vassar, Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin)
  • 2015 – Spirited Prospect: A Portable History of Western Art, from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era with Professor Charles Stigliano (revised first edition) Cognella Publishing
  • 2012 – “Kenneth” and “The Trout’s Eye at the Odéon,” Chelsea Station, Issue 3
  • 2012 – “Eve to God,” Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature, Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Editor, ACU Press
  • 2012 – “My First New Poem” and “A Single Element,” Lucid Rhythms, Issue 1

Selected Awards

  • 2009 – Massachusetts College of Art Foundation Award for Research
  • 2004 – Finalist, Foreword Book Awards (Mystery Category)
  • 1999 – Royal Collection Studies Program Scholarship, Windsor Castle
  • 1992 – The Helena Hayward Scholarship at The Attingham Summer School for the Study of English Decorative Arts, Great Britain
  • 1992 – American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship at The Houghton Library, Harvard University — 1991-2 (in residence May, 1992)
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