Stephen Campbell

The Johns Hopkins University

February–June 2016

Stephen J. Campbell is Professor in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. A central concern of his work is the historical investigation of “style” and its role in visual communication, as well as questions of canon formation and the geography of art. He has published Cosmè Tura of Ferrara: Style and Politics in the Renaissance City 1450-1495, and The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este. His most recent book Art in Italy 1400-1600, co-authored with Michael Cole (2011), will soon appear in Japanese and Italian editions. In 2002 he curated an exhibition on the 15th century Ferrarese painter Cosmè Tura at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; an exhibition on Carlo Crivelli will open at the same venue in October 2015. At the Clark he will develop a project on Andrea Mantegna, exploring the depiction of art objects and simulation of artistic media in the artist’s work, as well as its historical self-consciousness and incipient challenge to early modern and more recent conceptions of “Renaissance.”