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David Rosand
Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History
The Renaissance tradition; Venice; drawings and prints; theory and criticism
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1965

Biography
David Rosand is a graduate of Columbia College and received his PhD from Columbia. He joined the faculty in 1964, has served twice as chairman of the Department of Art History and Archeology, as director of Art Humanities, and as chairman of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities; he currently chairs the Department's Wallach Art Gallery Committee. His areas of special interest include the history of painting, especially the Renaissance tradition, painting and poetry, the graphic arts, modern art and criticism. His books include Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976), Titian (1978), The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian (1988), Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto (1982, rev. ed. 1997), and Robert Motherwell on Paper (1997), which accompanied an exhibition in the Wallach Art Gallery. His most recent books are Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State (2001) and Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation (2002). Working with the Media Center for Art History, he has been developing a project on Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura, extending visual and cultural analysis through digital imaging and computer graphics. Professor Rosand has received the Great Teacher Award of the Society of Columbia Graduates.

Contact Information

906 and 826 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-4502
E-mail: dr17@columbia.edu

Web Sites
Mapping the Art and Architecture of Venice: learn.columbia.edu/venice/flash
The High Renaissance in Italy: learn.columbia.edu/highrenitaly
Italian Renaissance Painting: learn.columbia.edu/italian
Raphael: Stanza della Segnatura: learn.columbia.edu/raphael/htm/index.htm
Rcent Publications
Rosand, David. Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation, 2002.
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Rosand, David. The Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State, University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
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Rosand, David. Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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