Catherine Zerner
Professor of History of Art and Architecture:
History of Art & Architecture
Phone: +1 401 863 3212
Phone 2: +1 401 863 1175
Catherine_Zerner@Brown.EDU
Professor Zerner's areas of interest include the history of art and architecture in Latin America, particularly with respect to the histories of landscape design, buildings, and cartography.
Interests
Professor Zerner is completing a study of Europe's first image of the Aztec capital of Mexico (the 1524 Nuremberg map of Tenochtitlán) and its impact on European urban thought. Other projects include: The Invention of Pathos: Spanish Polychrome Sculpture of the Golden Age, 1520-1700, a related study of Corpus Christi processions in Colonial Latin America, and a book length study, Building and Landscape in the Early Modern World. A conference on the art of festivals in Latin America was organized and held in the spring of 2006.
Awards
1995 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 1996/97.
1994 Eleanor Tufts Award for best book on a Spanish subject from the Society for Spanish Art Historical Studies
1987 Invited as member for 1987/88 with full support to Wissenschaftscolleg zu Berlin in 1987(declined)
1986 Invited Getty Scholar, J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California
1985 Invited to National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC. Senior Fellowship (declined)
1977 The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize awarded by college Art Association for the best article in Art Bulletin in 1975 by a scholar under 35 years of age
Affiliations
College Art Association of America; Society of Architectural Historians;
Hispanic Society; Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France
Funded Research
Research on the map of Tenochtitlán and European urbanism is being funded by Salomon Faculty Research grant from Brown University (2005-2007).
Work on Spanish polychrome sculpture and related topics in Latin America were funded by a sabbatical grant from Brown University and a Cogut Grant.
Research on the history of cartography and preparation of undergraduate seminar (Spring 2006)was funded by a Wriston Curricular Development Grant from Brown University.
The work on relations between landscape and building in the early modern world was funded in part by a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 1996/97.
Additional past grants include:
-A Spanish language grant for FLAC section, HA 15(1997)
-Thomas J. Watson , Jr. Institute for International Studies travel grant, Brown University (1996)
-Grant from Research Grant program for cultural cooperation between Spain's Ministry Of Culture and American Universities (1996)
-Curricular Development Grant, Brown University (1996)
-National Endowment for the Arts Matching grant for Philip II and the Escorial:Technology and the Representation of Architecture, Brown University(1990)
-American Council of Learned Societies (ALCS) grant for research on Juan de Herrera (1982-83)
-National Endowment for the Arts Matching grant for Ornament and Architecture, Brown University (1979)
-American Philosophical Society Summer Grant for research on Juan de Herrera (1978-79)
-Membership with full fellowhship Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (1977-78)
-National Endowment for the Arts matching grant for Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera, Brown (1973)
-American Philosophical Society Summer Grant, Research on sculpture of Alonso Berruguete (1967)
-S.H. Kress Grant for archival research in Spain (1967)
-S.H. Kress Grant for research at Teotihuacan, Mexico (1966)
-Fulbright Grant to Spain (1966-67)
-Yale University tuition and Fellowships (1965-66)
Curriculum Vitae
