Michael Gaudio

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Art History, Stanford University

Specialties

• Early Modern Atlantic World
• Print history
• Landscape
• Art and Science
• Historiography

Publications

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Publications

• Gaudio, Michael. Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
• Gaudio, Michael. The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England: Little Gidding and the Pursuit of Scriptural Harmony. Routledge, 2017.
• Gaudio, Michael. Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

• "In Praise of a Fly," Source: Notes in the History of Art 42:1 (Fall 2022): 48-57.

• “The Emblem in the Landscape: Matthaeus Merian’s Etchings for Atalanta fugiens,” in Furnace & Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary, ed. Tara Nummedal and Donna Bilak (University of Virginia Press, Studies in Early Modern German History, 2020).
• “Magical Pictures, or, Observations on Lightning and Thunder, Occasion’d by a Portrait of Dr. Franklin," in Rachael Z. DeLue, ed., Picturing (University of Chicago Press for the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2016)
• "Looking as a Scholar, Thinking like a Rattle Head: On William Laud, Little Gidding, the Law, and the Gospel," Oxford Art Journal 36:3 (2013)
• “Cutting and Pasting at Little Gidding: Bible Illustration and Protestant Belief in Seventeenth-Century England,“ in Ralph Dekoninck, Agní¨s Guiderdoni-Bruslé, and Walter Melion, eds., Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700 (Brepols, 2012)
• “The Elements of Botanical Art: William Bartram, Benjamin Smith Barton, and the Scientific Imagination,“ in Thomas Hallock and Nancy E. Hoffmann, eds., William Bartram: The Search for Nature’s Design (University of Georgia Press, 2010)
• “Surface and Depth: The Art of Early American Natural History,“ in Sue Ann Prince, ed., Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America 1730-1860 (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 93:4, 2003)
• "At the Mouth of the Cave: Listening to Thomas Cole's Kaaterskill Falls," Art History 33.3 (2010)
• “The Truth in Clothing: The Costume Studies of John White and Lucas de Heere," in Kim Sloan, ed., European Visions; American Voices (British Museum Research Publication 172, 2009)
• “1585: “˜Counterfeited according to the truth:’ John White depicts the New World,“ in Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds., A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009)
• “Swallowing the Evidence: William Bartram and the Limits of Enlightenment,“ Winterthur Portfolio 36.1 (2001)
• "Matthew Paris and the Cartography of the Margins,“ Gesta 39.1 (2000)

Awards

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Awards

• Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor in Art History, Williams College, 2023-2024
• Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts, 2020-2023
• Tyson Scholar, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Spring 2017
• Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC, Summer 2012
• McKnight Presidential Fellow, 2008-2011

Courses

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Courses

• ArtH 1001 - Introduction to Western Art
• ArtH 3309 - Renaissance Art
• ArtH 3315 - The Age of Curiosity: Art, Science and Technology in Europe, 1400-1800
• ArtH 3345 - Imagining the North Country
• ArtH 5301 - Visual Culture of the Atlantic World
• ArtH 5302 - The Image Multiplied: Prints in Early Modern Europe
• ArtH 8001 - Art History: Theory and Methods
• ArtH 8320 - Issues in Early Modern Visual Culture