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non-senate faculty carole paul specialization 17th- and 18th-century art and architecture in Italy; history of collecting and museums email office hours M W 3:15 - 4:15 & by appt phone
B.A. Barnard College
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 recent book, The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour (Ashgate, 2008), 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 and the archetype for later civic museums, such as the Louvre. In addition to other projects on Roman collections and museums, she is editing an anthology on the first modern museums of art in Europe and the emergence of the international museum culture that accompanied them in the eighteenth-century. These early museums played a critical role in transforming the way people related to art - and thus the function art came to play in the modern world - as well as contributing to the newly emergent sense of public cultural space we associate with the Enlightenment.
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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.