Faculty Guide

Title

Sidney and Ellen Wien Professor in the History of Art

Cultural Production
Fine Arts
Italian Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Expertise

Medieval art and architecture.

Awards and Honors

Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America (2008)

Otto Gruendler Book Prize from the International Congress on Medieval Studies (2007)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1985 - 1986)

J. Paul Getty Trust Grant (1985)

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid (1982)

Center for Field Research Grant, excavations at Farfa (1981)

National Foundation for Humanities Grant, excavations at Farfa (1980 - 1981)

Kress Foundation Grant, Excavations at Farfa (1979 - 1984)

Kress Foundation Art History Fellowship to Rome (1974 - 1976)

Courses Taught

FA	17a	History of Art I: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
FA	41a	Art and the Origins of Europe
FA	42b	The Age of Cathedrals
FA	45a	St. Peter's and the Vatican
FA	197b	Methods and Approaches in the History of Art
USEM	60b	Art and the Bible

Scholarship

McClendon,Charles. The Origins of Medieval Architecture:Building in Europe A.D. 600-900. Yale University Press, 2005.

McClendon,Charles. The Imperial Abbey of Farfa: Architectural Currents of the Early Middle Ages. Yale University Press, 1987.

McClendon,Charles. Rome and the Provinces: Studies in the Transformation of Art and Architecture in the Mediterranean World. New Haven Society of Archaeological Institute of A, 1986.