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non-senate faculty
carole paul
curriculum vitae
specialization
17th- and 18th-century art and architecture in Italy; history of collecting and museums
office hours
Arts 1231, Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 & by appointment
phone
805 893 8935
B.A. Barnard College
M.A., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Carole Paul has received fellowships from the Kress Foundation and the American Academy in Rome. She has published essays and reviews on various subjects in her field, including the language of allegory and the role of patronage in programmatic imagery, the historiography of eighteenth-century Roman painting, and the significance of Rome as an international artistic center in the age of the Grand Tour. Her current research focuses on the emergence of modern museums of art in eighteenth-century Europe, particularly on the critical role of Italian collections in that development.
She addressed this and other issues in her exhibition and related book for the Getty Research Institute, Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese (2000) and in the conference proceedings she co-edited, “Viewing Antiquity: The Grand Tour, Antiquarianism, and Collecting,” Richerche di Storia dell'arte 72 (2000). In her forthcoming book, The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour (Ashgate, 2007), her discussion of the Borghese collections is framed by an examination of the relationship between exhibition strategies, discursive practices, and social performance as it orchestrated the experience of art for early modern viewers. She is now writing a book on the Capitoline Museum, one of the very first public, civic museums in Europe, the influence of which on later modern museums has been overlooked.
undergraduate courses
Seventeenth-Century Art in Italy
Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
Bernini and the Age of the Baroque
The City of Rome: Image and Ideology
The Palace and the Villa in Early Modern Europe
The Birth of the Modern Museum
Eighteenth-Century Art in Italy: The Age of the Grand Tour
