New York Renaissance Consortium

The New York Renaissance Consortium has been established to take advantage of the wealth of Renaissance teaching and research in the New York metropolitan area and to create a network through which information about Renaissance events can be shared both through a webpage and listserv. It is intended to facilitate a community among scholars, students, curators, and others with interest in the arts of the Renaissance and will also hold a number of events each season.

Robert Campin and Assistant, The Annunciation Triptych (detail) Robert Campin and Assistant, The Annunciation Triptych, ca. 1425, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection

Patricia Rubin
Consortium Director

Trained at Yale, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Harvard, Patricia Rubin taught courses in the field of Italian Renaissance art at the Courtauld Institute since 1979 until taking on the role of Director at the Institute of Fine Arts in 2009. Having completed the book Images and Identity in Fifteenth-century Florence, she has written essays on artists' signatures on sixteenth-century portraiture, collecting and cultural patrimony, and beautiful bottoms in Italian Renaissance art.

Lorenzo Buonanno
Co-Student Coordinator

A Ph.D. student at Columbia University, he is researching a dissertation on sculpted altarpieces in Venice and the Veneto. He has presented papers at annual meetings of the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo (MI), the Incontri in onore di Michelangelo Muraro (Sossano, Italy), and the Renaissance Society of America. He also serves as Assistant to the Director of the Columbia University Venice Program.

Michael Waters
Co-Student Coordinator

A Ph.D. candidate and Erwin Panofsky Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts, Michael Waters is currently researching a dissertation on materials, materiality, and spolia in Italian Renaissance architecture. He is the co-curator of an upcoming exhibition on sixteenth-century engravings of architectural details at the University of Virginia Art Museum and has presented papers at the Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting as well as that of the Renaissance Society of America. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Peter Bell
A Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, Peter Bell is also collaborating on a catalogue of the Italian bronze sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has presented papers and written articles for publication in the United States and Italy on 17th-century printmaking and Renaissance sculpture, and is writing a dissertation on the reinvention of the bronze statuette in 15th-century Italy.