Robert Randolf Coleman
Associate Professor, Renaissance & Baroque Art History
Contact
715G Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
ph: 574.631.4547
e: robert.r.coleman.1@nd.edu
Degrees
B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Biography
Coleman works primarily on Italian art from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. He has written on the art of sixteenth-century Lombardy and Piedmont, and has worked extensively on Italian old master drawings, including those in the collection of the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, published in A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. 2 vols., 2008 and 2010. He has co-curated with Babette Bohn, The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art, 2008, an exhibition which was shown in the Snite Museum of Art in 2009. His monograph, The Ambrosiana Albums of Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-1770): A Critical Catalogue (2011) offers a critical analysis and evaluation of the graphic works of an important eighteenth-century Veronese painter. He is also the author and Project Director of the Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, an on-going web site inventory with scanned images. The Ambrosiana Project is housed in the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, which conserves a photographic archive of drawings and manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Coleman lectures on the Renaissance in Florence, Rome, Venice, Northern Italy, and on the Italian Baroque. Seminars have focused on Italian Mannerism, Italian drawings (in conjunction with the Snite Museum), and on eighteenth-century European art with special attention given to important centers as Rome and Venice.
Recent Books
The Ambrosiana Albums of Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-1770), by Robert Randolf Coleman
The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art, by Robert Randolf Coleman and Babette Bohn
