Caroline A. Bruzelius, Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Italian
| Office Location: | 112 East Duke Building |
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- Education:
- PhD, Yale University, 1977
Teaching (Spring 2012):
- Research Interests: medieval architecture and urbanism; medieval sculpture
Current projects: the architecture of the Franciscans and Dominicans, death and burial in the medieval city
Caroline Bruzelius received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her field of research is Gothic architecture and sculpture in France and Italy. Her books include The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343 (Yale University Press, 2004) and in Italian translation as Le Pietre di Napoli: le chiese del Regno di Napoli 1266-1343 (Rome, 2005); The Thirteenth Century Church at Saint Denis (Yale University Press, 1985), The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art at Duke University (1991) and The Architecture of the Cistercians in the Early Thirteenth Century. She was awarded the Duke Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985. From 1994 to 1998 she served as Director of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Caroline Bruzelius and Professor Donatella Calabi of Venice International University offer jointly a summer seminar in Venice for advanced graduate students in the Humanities. http://www.univiu.org/graduate/summerinstitute
- Areas of Interest:
- monastic architecture and planning
city planning - Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343 , Yale University Press, London (in Italian as: Le Pietre di Napoli, 2005.) .
- with Francesco Aceto, Paola Vitolo and Alessandra Periccioli-Saggese, Campania Gotica, in forthcoming 2010 (2010), Jaca Books, Milan .
- The Architectural Context of Santa Maria Donna Regina, in The Church of Sta. Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples, edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr (2004), pp. 79-92, Ashgate Press (a joint volume on the convent church.) .
- with C. Goodson, The Abbey in the Middle Ages, in Walls and Memory. The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio) from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond, edited by Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline J. Goodson, Margaret L. Laird and Stephanie C. Leone (2005), pp. 72-113, Brepols .
- 'Le pietre sono parole.' Charles II d'Anjou, Filippo Minutolo e la Cathedrale Angevine de Naples, Le monde des cathedrales, Paris Editions du Louvre (2004), Musee du Louvre .
- Review of Daniel H. Weiss, Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis, Speculum, vol. 76 (2001), pp. 813-5 .