Faculty Fellow
Altered Grace: Vision, Devotion and Imagination in the Art of Jacopo da Pontormo
Dennis Geronimus is Associate Professor of Art History, specializing in Italian Renaissance art. In addition to broader introductions to visual culture from 1300-1700, his more specialized courses have addressed the legacy of Michelangelo, the problems of Mannerism, and the process of artistic transmission and exchange between Northern and Southern Europe. His current interests, as expressed in his own research and carrying over into the classroom, include the lure of the primitive, Renaissance representations of landscape as a dynamic narrative agent, and the arrival of Spanish artists in central Italy in the first half of the sixteenth century. He is the author ofPiero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange (Yale University Press, 2006) and is currently collaborating with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, as a guest curator on the first-ever exhibition of Piero’s paintings. As a Humanities Initiative Fellow, Geronimus worked on his next book project, a comprehensive study of the intensely experimental Florentine master and one-time Michelangelo collaborator, Jacopo da Pontormo.