Biography

Roger Crum is Professor of art history at the University of Dayton.  A former Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow to the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence and a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Crum serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association and on the Advisory Council of the Internationalization Collaborative of the American Council on Education.  In addition to his work on Florentine art and architecture and Fascist Italy, Crum has published on topics as diverse as the sculpture of Degas, the religious art of Barnett Newman, and the photography of the Wright brothers.

Project Summary

This project seeks a narrative for Florentine art based on the territorial and international dimensions of Florentine society.  It explores a sub, and pre-modern category of globalization and the ways in which consideration of this phenomenon alters understanding of the production, distribution, and critical fortune of the Renaissance artistic tradition.