Maria Ruvoldt

Art History, Faculty, Photo

Associate Professor of Art History

Lowenstein 423D
Fordham University - Lincoln Center Campus
113 W. 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

Phone: 212-636-6229
Email: [email protected]

Office Hours: by appointment

Education

BA Smith College; MA, MPhil, PhD Columbia University

Specialization

Italian Renaissance

Biography

Maria Ruvoldt joined the faculty at Fordham in Fall 2007. She is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art. Maria previously taught at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Master's Program in the History of Decorative Art, and at the Bard Graduate Center. She was also a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Introduction to History Art: Europe (ARHI 1101); Renaissance Portraits (ARHI 2430); Michelangelo (ARHI 3455); Senior Seminar (ARHI 4600)

  • The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dreams (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

    "Michelangelo's Dream." Art Bulletin 85 (2003): 86-113.

    "Sacred to Secular, East to West: The Renaissance Studiolo and Strategies of Display" Renaissance Studies 20 (2006): 640-657.

    "Responding to the Renaissance," in Renaissance Theory, ed. James Elkins and Robert Williams (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2008).

    "Decorative Arts in Italy 1400-1600," in A History of the Decorative and Applied Arts and Design, 1400-2000, ed. Susan Weber Soros and Pat Kirkham (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2009).