Faculty
Melinda Schlitt
William W. Edel Professor of Humanities
Professor of Art History
M.A., Ph.D., History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
schlitt@dickinson.edu
Prior to Dickinson, Schlitt taught at the Loyola University of Chicago, Rome Center for the Liberal Arts, and at Bates College where she also served as Acting Director of the Museum of Art. Her area of specialization is the Italian Renaissance with an emphasis on painting in Florence and Rome during the sixteenth century. Her research and scholarship addresses the relationships between sixteenth-century theory and criticism and pictorial style, and the ways in which meaning, function, and audiences were constructed during the Renaissance. Research fellowships include grants from the American Philosophical Society, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and the Rome Prize in the History of Art from the American Academy in Rome. Schlitt teaches courses in art of the Italian Renaissance, Criticism and Theory in the Arts, special topics seminars, Introduction to Art History, and ancient Greek and Roman art (her secondary area of specialization).
Selected Recent Publications
Books
Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History (Essays in Honor of Nancy S. Struever) compiled and edited by M. Schlitt & J. Marino, University of Rochester Press, 2001.
Francesco Salviati at the Court of Cosimo I de'Medici: The Politics of Style (forthcoming).
Articles/Book Chapters
"Painting, Criticism, and Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Age of the Counter Reformation," in Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment', ed., Marcia Hall, Cambridge University Press, "Masterpieces of Western Painting," 2005, 113-149.
"Anticamente Moderna et Modernamente Antica: Imitation and the Ideal in 16th Century Italian Painting," International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 10, no. 3, Winter 2004, 377-406.
"The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in 16th-Century Painting: Reading 'Outside' the Imagery," in Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History (Essays in Honor of Nancy S. Struever) compiled and edited by M. Schlitt & J. Marino, University of Rochester Press, 2001, 259-282.
" 'Lavorando per pratica': Study, Labor, and Facility in Vasari's Life of Salviati," in Francesco Salviati et La Bella Maniera, Ecole Française de Rome, 2001, 91-105.