BIO

Education:
Harvard College, A.B. 1950 (completed requirements for concentration with honors in Physics in 1949; then changed to Fine Arts; honors thesis on Walter Gropius)
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Basic Design with Josef Albers, summer 1950
Graduate work at Harvard, Munich (studied Archaeology and History of Art with Profs. Buschor, Gall, Kähler, Usener, 1951-52), London, Warburg Institute (studied with Profs. Buchthal, Gombrich, Wormald, 1953-54), Harvard Ph.D., January 1957; thesis: The Vespasian Psalter and the Eighth Century Renascence.

Fellowships:
Fulbright Fellowship to the Warburg Institute, London, 1953-4

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1960-1
Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1962-3, 1976-7, 1984, 1993-4

Teaching:
Harvard University: Instructor in Fine Arts and Resident Tutor, 1956-60
at Berkeley since 1963

main teaching field: Art from Augustus to Charlemagne
advanced specialties: manuscript illustration, codicology, numismatics
undergraduate seminars in photography
freshman seminars in campus architecture, classic movies

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

The Vespasian Psalter (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 14), Copenhagen, 1967

Vergilius Vaticanus, Commentarium (Codices e Vaticanis selecti, 40), Graz, 1984

Codicological Notes on the Vergilius Romanus (Studi e testi, 345) Vatican City, 1992

The Vatican Vergil, a Masterpiece of Late Antique Art, Berkeley (UC Press), 1993 also German translation: Graz (ADEVA) 1993

The Roman Vergil and the Origins of Medieval Book Design, London (British Library), 2001 also German translation: Stuttgart (Belser), 2001]

The Lost Late Antique Illustrated Terence (in production by the Vatican Library)

almost in the press:
The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Copies of Illustrated Manuscripts, Leuven (Brepols)

in active preparation:
The Barberini Gospels (a monograph on an outstanding English manuscript from the end of the eighth century)

Late Antiquity and the Dark Ages (Pelican History of Art), Yale University Press (about 40% written)

Selected Articles and Reviews:

“The Date of the Leningrad Bede,” Revue Bénédictine 71 (1961) 265-273.

“Some Notes on English Uncial,” Traditio 17 (1961) 441-456.

Review article on The Relics of St. Cuthbert in Art Bulletin 43 (1961) 141-160.

Review article on Grabar and Nordenfalk, Early Medieval Painting, in
Art Bulletin 43 (1961) 245-255.

“The Tablets from Springmount Bog: A Key to Early Irish Palaeography,” American Journal of Archaeology 67 (1963), 219.

Review of Blair, The Moore Bede, in Anglia 82 (1964), 110-117.

“The Codex Millenarius and its Model,” Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 15 (1964), 37-54.

“The Italian Stimulus on English Art around 700,” Stil und Überlieferung in der Kunst des Abendlandes, Berlin, 1967, 84-92.

“The Date and Arrangement of the Illustrations in the Rabbula Gospels,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 27 (1973) 197-208

“The Shape of the Seventh Century in Byzantine Art,” Byzantine Studies Conference Abstracts of Papers 1 (1975) 9-28.

“Ivories for the Emperor,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 3 (1977) 6-9.

Coins from the Justinianic Renaissance (A.D. 681 and Following),” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 5 (1979), four pages inserted between pp. 30 and 31.

Review of Kurt Weitzmann, The Miniatures of the Sacra Parallela, in University Publishing 9 (Summer 1980) 7-8.

“The Canon Tables of the Codex Beneventanus,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 33 (1979) 135-155.

“Sources of Longobard Wall Paintings: Facts and Possibilities,” Atti del 6° Congresso Internazionale di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, Milano, 21-25 ottobre, 1978, Spoleto, 1980, 727-739.

Review of Volbach, Elfenbeinarbeiten der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, in Art Bulletin 63 (1981) 675-677.

“A Luxuriously Decorated Russian Psalter of the Twelfth Century,” Actes du Xe Congrès International d’Etudes Byzantines, Athènes, 1976, II, Art et Archéologie, Communications, Athens, 1981, pp. 919-932.

“The Irish Element in the Formation of Hiberno-Saxon Art: Calligraphy and Metalwork,” Die Iren und Europa im früheren Mittelalter, ed. Heinz Loewe, Stuttgart, 1982, pp. 99-100.

“Pagan Theology in the Via Latina Catacomb,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 10 (1984) 62-64.

“When the Vatican Vergil was in Tours,” Studien zur mittelalterlichen Kunst, 800-1250, Festschrift für Florentine Mütherich, Munich, 1985, pp. 53-66.

“The Date of the Vatican Illuminated Handy Tables of Ptolemy and of its Early Additions,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 78 (1985) 355-362.

“Justinian and an Archangel,” Studien zur spätantiken Kunst Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann gewidmet, Mainz (Monographien des Römisch-Germanische Zentralmuseums, 10), 1986, III, pp. 75-79.

“Constantius, Constantine, and the Mint of Trier,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 12 (1986) 8-9.

“Byzantine Art and Literature around the Year 800,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 40 (1986) 183-185.

“Incipient Theology in the Hercules Sarcophagus from Velletri,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 13 (1987) 32-33.

“The True Face of Constantine the Great,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 41 (1987) 483-507.

“The First Portraits of Constantine and the Last Portrait of Maximian,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 16 (1990) 47-50.

“From Copy to Facsimile, a Millennium of Studying the Vatican Vergil,” British Library Journal 17 (1991) 12-35.

“The Forgotten Early Romanesque Illustrations of Terence in Vat. Lat. 3305,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 56 (1993) 183-206.

“The Implications of the Quedlinburg Itala Fragments,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 20 (1994) 40-42.

“The Organization of the Lost Late Antique Illustrated Terence,” Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use (ed. Claudine Chavannes-Mazel), Los Altos Hills, 1996, pp. 41-56.

“The Inheritance of the Papyrus Style of Illustration in Early Latin Literary Codices,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 50 (1996) 199-208.

“The Persistence of Pagan Art Patronage in Fifth-Century Rome,” Aetos, Studies in Honour of Cyril Mango (edd. Ihor Šev?enko and Irmgard Hutter), Stuttgart, 1998, pp. 354-369.

“The Apotheosis of Antoninus Pius in 161 and in 461,” American Journal of Archaeology 103 (1999), 288.

“An Abandoned Early Humanist Plan to Illustrate Terence,” Miscellanea Bibliothecae Vaticanae VII (2000), pp. 74-75.

“Ernst Kantorowicz in America,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 26 (2000) 74-75.

“The First World War Memorial in the Cortile of the American Academy in Rome,” Rome and her Monuments, Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine A. Geffcken, Wauconda (Illinois), 2000, pp. 57-80.

“Wilhelm Koehler and the Original Plan for Research at Dumbarton Oaks,” in Pioneers of Byzantine Studies in America (ed. John W. Barker), 2002, pp. 134-175. (Byzantinische Forschungen 27)

“Putting Vergil on Display after 476,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 28 (2002) 33-34.

“A Tetrarchic Bureaucrat at the American Academy in Rome,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 29 (2003)

Review of Dorothy Verkerk, Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch,
Cambridge University Press, 2004, in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 69 (2006) 411-415.

„Large-Scale Christian Painting on Linen from Greek Fifth-Century Egypt,‰ Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers 32 (2006) 90-91.


A Few General-Interest Articles and Reviews:

“Bishop Eadfrith’s Masterpiece,” Art News 60.3 (May 1961) 33, 50, 52.

“The Earliest Icons in Rome,” Arts 38.1 (October 1963) 24-31.

Review of Art Studies for an Editor, in Art Bulletin 59 (1977) 154-155.

“Style in the Visual Arts as Material for Social Research,” Social Research 45 (1978) 130-152.

“Shortchanged at the Met,” New York Review of Books 25.7 (4 May 1978),
32-34, and correspondence 25.12 (20 July 1978) 47-48.

“Autumn of the Middle Ages,” Apollo 111 (February 1980) 93-105.

“Art for Whose Sake?” New York Review of Books 30.9 (2 June 1983) 6, 8, 10, 12-13.

Arnold Genthe, Gentleman Photographer and Pioneer Photojournalist,” University Publishing 12 (Winter 1984) 18-19.

“Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother,” University Publishing 14 (Spring 1985) 26-27.

“Photography: Questions about the Vernacular,” The New Criterion 8, No. 2 (October 1989) 46-50.

“Ernst Kantorowicz and the Loyalty Oath,” Chronicle of the University of  California 5 (Spring 2002) 21-28.