Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

The Power Institute presents a special guest lecture by

THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN
Archimboldo's Serious Jokes and the Origins of Still Life Painting

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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, where he began teaching in 1977 after receiving degrees from Yale University, the Warburg Institute of the University of London, and Harvard University. His interests include art and architecture in Europe and Latin America from 1450 to 1800, historiography, the geography of art, the relationship of art to science and humanism, and the study of old-master drawings.

Kaufmann is the author of numerous articles and books, including Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450–1800 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995); The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993); and Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540–1680 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982); Toward a Geography of Art (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004); The Eloquent Artist: Essays on Art, Art Theory, and Architecture (London: Pindar, 2004); and Catalogue of German Drawings, Crocker Art Museum (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004). His The School of Prague: Painting at the Court of Rudolf II (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988) won the 1988 Jan Mitchell Prize.

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