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| DAVID ROSAND, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, is a graduate of Columbia College (1959) and received his PhD from Columbia in 1965. He joined the faculty in 1964, has served twice as chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, as director of Art Humanities, and chairman of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities; he is currently chairman of the Wallach Art Gallery.
His areas of special interest range from the history of painting, especially the Renaissance tradition, painting and poetry, the graphic arts, to modern art and criticism. His books include Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976), Titian (1978), Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto (1982; rev. ed. 1997), The Meaning of the Mark: Titian and Leonardo (1988), Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape (1988), 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 Representations (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 (1997) and an Award for Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum from the Heyman Center for the Humanities (2000). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of Ateneo Veneto in Venice.
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