Jonathan W Unglaub

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

unglaub@brandeis.edu
781-736-2665
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 211

Departments/Programs

Comparative Humanities
Fine Arts
Italian Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Degrees

Columbia University, Ph.D.
Columbia University, M.Phil.
Columbia University, M.A.

Expertise

Renaissance and Baroque art

Profile

Jonathan Unglaub (BA, University of Michigan, MA, M Phil, Ph.D., Columbia) is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Brandeis University. He has taught previously at Columbia and Washington University in St. Louis. At Brandies since 2001, Unglaub teaches courses on the Art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods throughout Europe, with an emphasis on Italy.

A primary area of research focus has been the art and larger literary culture of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), the founder of French Classicism, who worked in Rome. His scholarship on the painter encompasses two books: Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso (Cambridge University Press, 2006; paperback 2014) and Poussin's Sacrament of Ordination: History Faith and the Sacred Landscape (Yale University Press, 2013), as well as some half dozen published studies. He is completing a monograph on the painter that will appear in the Renaissance Lives series published by Reaktion Press.

Beyond Poussin, Unglaub's current research ranges across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Italy, and includes studies on Caravaggio, Carracci, Bernini, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Venetian Renaissance pastoral painting, as well as a book project on pictorial transitivity and Marian corporeality in Raphael's Sistine Madonna and other Renaissance images of the Incarnation. Among other issues, these articles have addressed Giorgione's Concert Champêtre and the historical dimension of pastoral poetry in the Renaissance, the cutthroat patronage of Giovanni Battista Manzini in seventeenth-century Bologna, new literary sources for Bernini's famed Ecstasy of Santa Teresa, and a rediscovered portrait of Bernardo Accolti, attributed to Andrea Del Sarto, which confirms this once-celebrated poet's prominence in Raphael's Parnassus in the Vatican.

His scholarship and reviews have appeared in many venues, including the Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, Arion, caareviews, Histoire de l’Art, the Art Newspaper, as well as chapters in various scholarly anthologies.

Courses Taught

ENG	183b	Gods and Humans in the Renaissance
FA	28a	Painting Siena
FA	30a	History of Art I: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
FA	30b	History of Art II: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age
FA	45a	Early Renaissance Art in Tuscany from the Age of Dante to the Medici
FA	45b	Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy
FA	46b	High and Late Renaissance in Italy
FA	48a	Baroque Art and Architecture in Italy
FA	149a	The Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer
FA	191b	Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art

Awards and Honors

Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for Academic year 2017-18 (2017 - 2018)

Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Historical Studies (offered and declined) (2008 - 2009)

Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2008 - 2009)

Fellow, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (2005)

J. Paul Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001 - 2002)

Lemmerman Foundation research grant (2000 - 2001)

Andrew Mellon Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998 - 1999)

Fulbright Pre-doctoral Grant, Rome Italy (1995 - 1997)

Jacob Javits Fellowship, U.S. department of Eductaion, at Columbia University (1992 - 1996)

Phi Beta Kappa and James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan (1991)

Scholarship

Unglaub, Jonathan W / Carolina Mangone. "Guercino’s Saint Petronilla: Saintly Body, Michelangelo and New St. Peter’s." Art History (2021). (forthcoming)

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Poussin’s A Dance to the Music of Time: The Wellspring of the Modes." Poussin and the Dance, exh. cat. Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the National Gallery, London. Ed. Emily Beeny and Francesca Whitlum-Cooper. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2021. 103-115. (forthcoming)

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Marino, Rubens, and Epic Painting in Medici Paris." Marino e l’arte tra Cinque e Seicento -- Special issue of L’Ellisse: studi storici di letteratura italiana 14 (2019). Ed. Emilio Russo, and Patrizia Tosini, and Andrea Zezza. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2021. 199-211, plates.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "‘Amorosa Contemplatione’: Bernini, Bruni, and the Poetic Vision of Saint Teresa." Art Bulletin 102. (2020): 32-63.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Guido Reni, Antonio Bruni, and the Poetics of Place and Perception." Festschrift for David Freedberg. Ed. Claudia Swan. London: Harvey Miller, 2019. 395-414.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Rinaldo / Armida, Rome / Antwerp, Poussin / Van Dyck." Tasso und die Bildenden Künste: Dialoge-Spiegelungen-Transformationen. Ed. Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 281-304.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Beautifully and thoughtfully presented: on the Nicolas Poussin catalogue raisonné." Rev. of Nicolas Poussin: Les Tableaux du Louvre, by Pierre Rosenberg. The Art Newspaper vol. XXVI, no. 287 2017: 14.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Bernardo Accolti and Raphael's Sistine Madonna: the Poetics of Desire and Pictorial Generation." Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1400-1700. Ed. Walter Melion, Joanna Woodall, and Michael Zell. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2017

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "A Proposal for the Concert Champêtre: Sebastiano?." Venetian Painting Matters. Ed. Jodi Cranston. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015. 35-56.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Poussin, Sainte Pierre et Sainte Paul." Poussin et Dieu. Ed. Nicolas Milovanovic and Mickael Szanto. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris: Hazan, 2015. 120-131.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Caravaggio and the ‘Truth in Pointing’." Caravaggio: Reflections and Refractions. Ed. David Stone and Lorenzo Pericolo. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. 149-175.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination: History, Faith, and the Sacred Landscape. New Haven and London: Yale University Press (Kimbell Masterpieces Series), 2013.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Poussin, Ut pictura poesis, and Corporeal Poetics." Revue Histoire de l’Art 69. (2011).

Unglaub, Jonathan W.. "Poussin and Rospigliosi: Originals, Copies, and Modes." Novità. Neuheitskonzepte in den Bildkünsten um 1600,. Ed. Ulrich Pfisterer and Gabriel Wimböck. Berlin: Diaphanes, 2011. 385-404.

Unglaub, Jonathan W.. "Book Review." Rev. of Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art, by Maria H. Loh. Art Bulletin vol. XCII 2010: 107-110.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "La femme en péril,." Titien, Tintoret, Veronese,: Rivalités à Venise. Ed. Vincent Delieuvin and Jean Habert, exh. cat. Paris, Musée du Louvre,. Paris: Hazan / Musée du Louvre éditions, 2009. 318-327.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Women in Peril." Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Ed. Frederick Ilchman. Exh. cat., Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009. 229-35.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "A New Drawing for the Engraving of St. Jerome by Agostino Carracci." Master Drawings XLV. n. 2 (2007): 211-22.

Unglaub, Jonathan. "Bernardo Accolti, Raphael's Parnassus and a New Portrait by Andrea Del Sarto." Burlington Magazine CXLIX. (2007): 14-22.

Unglaub, Jonathan. "The Concert Champêtre and the Poetics of Dispossession." Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed. Ed. Mathilde Skoie and Sonia Bjornstad-Velasquez. Exeter, UK: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2006. 126-145.

Unglaub, Jonathan. Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso. New York and Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Poussin's Reflection." Art Bulletin LXXXVI. (2004): 505-28.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Poussin's Esther before Ahaseurus: Beauty, Majesty, Bondage." Art Bulletin LXXXV. (2003): 114-36.

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Fifteen Scholarly Entries for the Exhibition Catalogue." Icons or Portraits: Images of Jesus and Mary Across Ten Centures. A Selection from the Private Collection of Michael Hall, New York, Gallery at the American Bible. Ed. Avery, Charles Heller, Ena et al.., 2002

Unglaub, Jonathan W. "Poussin's Purloined Letter." Burlington Magazine CXLII. (2000): 35-9.

Unglaub, Jonathan. "Bolognese Painting and Barberini Aspirations: Giovanni Battista Manzini in the Archivio Dal Pozzo." Atti e memorie dell Accademia Clementina XXXVIII-IX. (1999): 31-75.

Unglaub, Jonathan. "The Concert Champêtre: The Crises of History and the Limits of Pastoral." Arion n.s. V. (1997): 46-96.