Faculty Guide

Title

Sidney and Ellen Wien Professor in the History of Art

Fine Arts

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 Endowment for the Humanities Resarch Grant, excavations at Farfa, Italy (1980 - 1981)

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

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

Courses Taught

FA	30a	History of Art I: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
FA	40b	The Formation of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art
FA	42b	The Age of Cathedrals
FA	143a	The Art of Medieval England
FA	145a	St. Peter's and the Vatican
FA	199a	Methods and Approaches in the History of Art

Scholarship

McClendon, Charles. ""Old Saint Peter's and the Iconoclastic Controversy"." Old Saint Peter's, Rome. Ed. Rosamond McKitterick, J. Osborne, a.o.. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

McClendon, Charles. ""Corvey Abbey" and "Pomposa Abbey"." The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art. 2013.

McClendon, Charles. "Book Review." Rev. of Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual and Memory, by Tomás Ó Carragáin. Speculum vol. 87 2012: 586-588..

McClendon, Charles. "Book Review." Rev. of Compressed Meanings: The Donor’s Model in Medieval Art to around 1300, by Emanuel S. Klinkenberg. CAA.Reviews online February 2012

McClendon, Charles. "The Articulation of Sacred Space in the Synagogue and Christian Building at Dura-Europos." Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity. 1st ed. vol. Exhib. Catalogue Ed. Lisa R. Body and Gail L. Hoffman. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2011. 155-167.

McClendon, Charles. "Book Review." Rev. of SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio at Tre Fontane near Rome: History and Architecture of a Medieval Cistercian Abbey, by Joan E. Barclay. Speculum vol. 83 2008: 169-70.

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.