Lecturer Emeritus, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program
willette@umich.edu
Office Information:
phone: 734.763.0179
hours: T/Th 5-6pm & by appointment
Residential College;
Emeriti
Education/Degree:
PhD Johns Hopkins University
About
Thomas Willette, Ph.D., is a Lecturer IV in the Arts and Ideas Program at the Residential College and in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He is the co-author of a book on the Italian painter Massimo Stanzione (Electa Napoli, 1992) and the co-editor of Art History in the Age of Bellori: Scholarship and Cultural Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and of the volume on Naples in the Cambridge University Press series Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance (in press). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Italian painting and early modern art-historiography and was awarded an NEH fellowship for his current research project on the publication history and reception of The Life of Benvenuto Cellini.
Affiliation(s)
Field(s) of Study
- Italian Renaissance and Baroque
