Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, Ph.D.

Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture

Department of Art & Art History

Curriculum Vitae

chipps@mail.utexas.edu

- Office: DFA 2.120

- Phone: +1 512-232-2609

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Professor Smith, the Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, is a specialist in the art of Northern Europe from 1400 to 1700 with a focus on Germany and the Low Countries. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1979 from Columbia University, he joined The University of Texas at Austin faculty. He is the author of Nuremberg, A Renaissance City, 1500-1618 (Austin, 1983); German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (Princeton, 1994); Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany (Princeton, 2002); The Northern Renaissance (London, 2004), which was reprinted in 2006 and published in a Greek translation in 2005; The Art of the Goldsmith in late Fifteenth-Century Germany: The Kimbell Virgin and Her Bishop (New Haven, 2006); editor, New Perspectives on the Art of Renaissance Nuremberg: Five Essays (Austin, 1985); introduction to Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1943 and later editions; Princeton Classic Edition, 2005); plus many articles and reviews. Recent essays include "Die Kunst des Scheiterns: Albrecht von Brandenburg und das Neue Stift in Halle," in Thomas Schauerte, ed., Der Kardinal - Albrecht von Brandenburg: Renaissancefürst und Mäzen, Bd. 1 Katalog, exh. cat., Halle, Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (Regensburg, 2006), pp. 17-51; "Albrecht Dürer, Cardinal Matthäus Lang, and the Throne of Invention" in Tributes to James H. Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance, eds. Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne S. Korteweg (Turnhout, 2006), p. 477-484 and 639; and "Dürer in America," in Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Woodcuts and Engravings: The Dürer Collection of the Foundation of Lower Saxony and the Konrad Liebmann Foundation, Germany, exh. cat., Honolulu Academy of Arts (Honolulu, 2007), pp. 8-14. In 2006 and 2007, Smith lectured at the universities of Leipzig, TU Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg; Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome; Gemä ldegalerie, Berlin; Skulpturensammlung (Bode Museum), Berlin; Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich; Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; among others. He was a visiting scholar-in-residence at the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas e. V. at the University of Leipzig in June and July 2006.

Smith is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung of Bonn (Germany), awards from ACLS, NEH (2008), the Getty Grant Program, the Kimbell Art Foundation, and six book prizes. Professor Smith served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Historians of Netherlandish Art (1989-94), the College Art Association (1996-2000), and, currently, the Renaissance Society of America (2000- ) and the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (2004- ). He was Articles Editor of the Renaissance Quarterly (2003-06) and continues as Associate Editor. The Kimbell Art Foundation has provided funds to permit his graduate seminar on Pieter Bruegel to travel to Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands in May 2001 and, with additional support from DAAD, the German Renaissance art seminar to travel throughout south Germany in June 2006.

He is on research leave in the 2006-07 academic year and spring 2008 completing a monograph on Albrecht Dürer, which was commissioned by Phaidon Press of London.