Professor
Contact information:
Phone: 608-263-2287
E-mail: glgeiger@wisc.edu
Office hours:
Mondays 1:30-2:30 and by appointment
B.A. University of California-Berkeley, 1965
M.A. Stanford University, 1968
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1975
Areas of Research and Teaching:
My research interests focus on Italian Renaissance patronage: who commissioned art and why? My publications began with studies on private patronage for ecclesiastical projects, particularly the mendicants of the Dominican Order during the fifteenth century in Rome and Florence. Subsequently, my interests have grown to include issues of racial representation during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries throughout the peninsula.
My teaching reflects this commitment to all media so that I have organized intermediate level courses around particular centuries and across both the "major" arts of architecture, sculpture and painting as well as the so-called minor arts of graphics, ceramics, tapestries, etc. My advanced courses now include both a course on alternative interpretations of the Italian Renaissance with attention to race and gender and a course on material culture/decorative arts. Seminars range over a variety of topics depending upon my shifting interests.
On faculty since 1978.
Courses taught:
- 101 Study of Art, Present and Past
- 202 Renaissance to Modern Art
- 320 Italian Renaissance Art
- 321 Italian Renaissance Art: 1250-1400
- 322 Italian Art from Donatello to Leonardo da Vinci
- 323 From Michelangelo & Raphael to Titian: Arts in 16th-century Italy
- 341 Italian Baroque Art
- 425 Race and Gender in Italian Renaissance Art
- 525 Proseminar in Italian Renaissance Art (Topics: "Cultural Objects Beyond Academic Boundaries"; "The Italian Renaissance Print & Decorative Arts")
- 600 Special Topics in Art History: "The Enigma of Fra Angelico's 'San Marco' Project"
- 825 Graduate Seminar: "Life and the Arts in Renaissance Italy"
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Filippino Lippi's Carafa Chapel in Renaissance Rome, vol. V of Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies (1986) |
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"Partial Clues to a Mystery: The Elvehjem's Bernardo Strozzi," Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin (1995-97) |
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"L'arte religiosa romana all'arrivo di raffaello," in Raffaello e l'Europa, atti del IV Corso Internazionale di Alta Cultura, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Centro di Studi sulla cultura e l'immagine di Rome, ed. Marcello Fagiolo e Maria Luisa Madonna (Rome, 1990) |
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"Francesco Salviati e gli affreschi della cappella del cardinale di Brandeburgo a Roma," Arte Cristiana 73 (1985) |
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"Filippino Lippi's 'Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas,'" in Rome in the Renaissance, ed. P.A. Ramsey, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 18 (Binghamton, NY, 1982) |