Jeffrey Muller
Professor of History of Art and Architecture:
History of Art & Architecture
Phone: +1 401 863 3834
Phone 2: +1 401 863 1174
Jeffrey_Muller@Brown.EDU
Jeffrey Muller's research centers on Flemish art between 1500 and 1800. Currently he is studying how visual communication was integral to implementation of the Counter Reformation in the Spanish Netherlands. He seeks answers in two directions. First, he is completing the case study of St. Jacob's, Antwerp, the only church to survive intact from the period. Second, he is writing articles on broader topics to challenge methodological flaws that separate the practice of history and art history.
Interests
Jeffrey Muller has pursued the study of early modern art with the instinct to integrate the practice of history and art history. He has chosen topics and approaches that combine the methods of both disciplines. This is true for the books and essays he has published about Rubens and Van Dyck (Rubens: The Artist as Collector, 1989; "The Quality of Grace in the Art of Anthony van Dyck," 1991), as well as for articles on broader topics ("Measures of Authenticity: The Detection of Copies in the Early Literature on Connoisseurship", 1989). His edition of Edward Norgate's Miniatura or the Art of Limning (1997), synthesized history of artistic technique, social history, history of art theory, and textual criticism to set the treatise in its historical context and make the text accessible. His current research further develops the recognition that "the past is a foreign country." He is studying how art was integral to the implementation of the Counter Reformation in the South Netherlands, a process that transformed society.
Awards
Associate Member, Center for Flemish Art of the 16th-and 17th- Centuries
Subvention Award from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art to
Yale University Press for Edward Norgate. Miniatura or the Art
Limning, 1996
Invited to be a Corresponding Member of the Scientific Research Group in
Flemish Renaissance and Baroque Art under the auspices of the National
Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium), 1996
Subvention Awards from the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Millard Meiss
Publication Fund of the College Art Association of America, to Princeton
University Press for Rubens: The Artist as Collector, 1987
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1986
Junior Faculty Sabbatical, Brown University, 1984
Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for the Best Article by a Younger Scholar in The
Art Bulletin, 1982
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, 1980-1981
American Academy in Rome Prize Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research in Art History, 1978-1979
Affiliations
College Art Association of America
Renaissance Society of America
Historians of Netherlandish Art
American Academy in Rome Society of Fellows
Funded Research
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2001-2002
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1995
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers,
1992-1993
National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Senior
Fellowship, 1989-90, declined
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Western European Regional Research
Program 1989-1990
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Research Grant, Summer 1976
Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship, Yale University, 1972-1973
Stipendium of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 1972-1973
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, Summer 1971
NDEA Title IV Fellowship, Yale University, 1969-1972
Curriculum Vitae
