David Rosand

David Rosand

David Rosand (born 1938) is an American art historian, university professor and writer.[1]

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Education and early life

Rosand was born in Brooklyn; and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1959.[2]

In 1961, he married Vassar graduate Ellen Fineman.[3]

Columbia awarded Rosand his PhD in 1965.[1] His dissertation was supported in part by a Fullbright scholarship for study in Italy.[2]

Honors

Career

Since 1964, Rosand has taught at Columbia, where he was Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History.[1] He plans to take emeritus status in June 2010.[2]

Rosand's area of academic expertise is Italian Renaissance art.[1] He is known for his scholarly work on Venice and Venetian]] artists like Titian. Rosand was honored at a one-day symposium at Columbia University in October 2008. The event brought together Professor Rosand’s colleagues and former graduate students to present research and personal reflections on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and retirement. The symposium was organized around papers on a wide variety of topics related to Professor Rosand’s past and current research.[5]

Complementing his career as an academic, he serves on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR).[6]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about David Rosand, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 80+ works in 170+ publications in 8 languages and 9,000+ library holdings.[7]

  • Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976)
  • Titian (1978)
  • Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto (1997)
  • Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages (1997)
  • The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian (1998)
  • The Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State (2001)
  • Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation (2002)
  • The Invention of Painting in America (2004)

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Columbia University: Rosand, faculty bio notes
  2. ^ a b c d Boss-Bicak, Shira. 'David Rosand ’59’s 'Gift' of Casa Muraro in Venice," Columbia Today. May/June 2008.
  3. ^ "David Rosand marries Miss Ellen Fineman," New York Times. JUne 19, 1961.
  4. ^ "$4.1 Million to Go to 342 Scholars ," New York Times. April 14, 1974.
  5. ^ Symposium in Honor of David Rosen, October 17, 2008.
  6. ^ International Foundation for Art Research, about IFAR
  7. ^ WorldCat Identities: David Rosand

References

  • Cranston, Jodi. (under contract). Venetian Painting Matters: Essays in Honor of David Rosand. New York: Brepols.

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