BIO

Dr. Todd P. Olson is the author of Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism and the Politics of Style (Yale University Press, 2002). His main areas of interest are class and sexuality in visual representation, history of art criticism and theory, and the politics of collecting. He is currently writing a book entitled Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics: Painting History after Iconoclasm. He has published aspects of this book as "Pitiful Relics: Caravaggio's Martrydom of St. Matthew" ( Representations 77, 2002). His publications include "'Long Live the Knife': Andrea Sacchi's Portrait of Marc'Antonio Pasqualini" (Art History) and "Caravaggio's Coroner: Forensic Medicine in Giulio Mancini's Art Criticism" (Oxford Art Journal).

He is a Fulbright Fellow (France, 1990) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome (Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1998-99). During the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute.