To Wake The Dead:
A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology
W.W. Norton, 2009

The Medici Giraffe:
And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power
Little, Brown & Co., May 2006

The Arts of Tuscany: From the Etruscans to Ferragamo
Abrams, unscheduled

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
J. Paul Getty Museum Press, 2004

Other Publications

• Ancient Greece, with Kenneth Lapatin, J. Paul Getty Museum Press, 2003
• Rethinking The Renaissance: Burgundian Arts Across Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003)

Articles

• “Good Dog: Model Canines in Renaissance Manuscripts,” in Festschrift for James Marrow, ed. Jeffrey Hamburger, Brepols, unscheduled
• “Rara Avis: The evidence for collecting exotic animals in classical antiquity,” Regional Conference Proceedings of the American Zoo & Aquarium Association, 2004
• “Petrus Christus, A Carthusian Monk” and “Hans Memling, Maria Portinari” in Martin Bailey ed., The Folio Society Book of the Hundred Greatest Portraits, 2004
• “Cellini’s Saltcellar” in Margaret A. Galluci and Paolo L. Rossi eds., Benvenuto Cellini 1500-1571: Sculptor, Goldsmith, and Writer, Cambridge University Press, 2004
• “An Unrecognized Source for Raphael’s Madonna of the Goldfinch,” Source: Notes in the History of Art, Winter 2002: 17-21
• “Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Lady” and “Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece” in Martin Bailey ed., The Folio Society Book of the Hundred Greatest Paintings, 2001: 32-35
• “Barberini Faun,” “Dying Gaul,” “Laocoon,” “Medici Venus” in Hugo Brigstocke ed., The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Oxford University Press, 2001
• “Jan van Eyck’s lost mappamundi—a token of fifteenth-century power politics,” Journal of Early Modern History 4 2000: 43-82
• “Antiquity Consumed: Transformations at San Marco, Venice,” with K. Lapatin in A. Kuttner, A. Payne, R. Smick eds., Antiquity and Its Interpreters Cambridge University Press, 2000: 83-95
• “Florence: Art of the Fifteenth Century,” “Netherlands: Art in the Netherlands,”
• “Patronage, ” “Decorative Arts,” “Vittore Carpaccio,” “Masaccio,” “Jan and Hubert Van Eyck,” “Dirck Bouts,” “Nicholas Hilliard,” in P. Grendler ed., Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Charles Scribner’s Sons and the Renaissance Society of America, 1999

Awards and Honors

• Bogliasco Fellowship, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Spring 2002
• Millard Meiss Publication Grant, College Art Association, 2001
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation Publication Grant, 2001
• Dean’s Fellow, Bunting Fellowship Program, Radcliffe/Harvard, 2000-2001
• Frieda L. Miller Fellow, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe/Harvard, 1999-2000
• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, twice 1997, 1998
• Levinson Teaching Award Nomination, Harvard University, 1998
• College Art Association/Kress Foundation Travel Grant, 1998
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-97
• Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 1991-96
• Dean’s Travel Grant, University of Chicago, 1994
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of California at Berkeley, 1986

Teachine Experience

• Lecturer, Boston University, Metropolitan College
• “Masters of the Renaissance: Giotto to Botticelli” Fall 1996, Spring 1999
• “Artists, Princes, and Popes: High Renaissance Art” Spring 1998
• Teaching Assistant, Harvard University
• “History of Renaissance Florence” Spring 1999
• “The Portrait” Spring 1998
• “Art and Visual Culture” Fall 1997
• Teaching Assistant, Tufts University
• “Art, Politics, and Culture” Spring 1999
• Lecturer, Hellenic College, Brookline, MA
• “Introduction to Art History: Ancient to Renaissance” Spring 1996
• Guest Lecturer, Boston University Summer Program in Greece and Turkey
• Medieval and Byzantine Art Summer 1989
• Russian language tutor to Italian Consul General to St. Petersburg 1989/90
• Lecturer, Russian Institute, University of California at Irvine 1984

Field Experience

• Marble-carving demonstrator at the Worcester Art Museum Family Day, 1998
• Tapestry-weaving course, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1997
• Traditional marble-carving workshop, Tinos, Greece, 1997
• Rescue Excavations of Trajan’s Aqueduct and Mills, Rome, 1990
• American Academy in Rome, visiting scholar, 1989/90
• Corinth Excavations, Greece, 1989
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1988/89

Museum Experience

• Boston Museum of Science curatorial trip to the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1991
• De Young Museum of Art (San Francisco, CA) exhibition on Russian Ballet Art, 1991
• Assistant to the Manager of the Agora Museum, Athens, Greece, 1988/89
• Soviet-American Exhibition of Cartoon Art in San Francisco, CA, 1988
• Exhibition of Unofficial Soviet Art, Gallery Rt. 1, Point Reyes, CA, 1988

Education

Ph.D. in Art History, University of Chicago, 1997
Master of Arts in Art History, University of Chicago, 1992
Bachelor of Arts in Art History, University of California at Berkeley, 1987