• Reader (History of Art)

telephone: 01413304139
email: Genevieve.Warwick@glasgow.ac.uk

Office Hour: Thursday 11-12noon

Research Interests

My research field is European art and visual culture c.1450-1750. I have published on Caravaggio and performance, Poussin and history, artists’ drawings as cultural signifiers, ornament and urbanism, and early modern collecting. I have recently completed a book-length consideration of ‘baroque’ illusionism within contingent fields of ritual and theatre, centred around Bernini’s sculptural ensembles.

Future research intends to consider the artist at work in early modern Europe with particular attention to the intersections between materials, methods, models and the practice of mimesis. As part of this larger concern, I am currently studying medial translations between Renaissance painting and antique sculpture manifest in the representation of Venus.

Biography 

After completing a BA in History at Oxford University I undertook a PhD in Art History at the Johns Hopkins University with Elizabeth Cropper. In 1993 I was appointed to a lectureship at the Courtauld Institute of Art, moving to the University of Glasgow in 1998.

Major publications include The Arts of Collecting (Cambridge University Press, 2000, paperback edition 2011); Commemorating Poussin (1999, with Katie Scott); Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe c. 1550-1700 (2003, with Christopher Baker and Caroline Elam); Caravaggio: Realism, Reception, Rebellion (2006); Bernini: Art and Theatre (Yale University Press, 2012). My research has been funded by the Kress Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, the Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2003 I was invited to become a Distinguished Fellow of the Getty Research Institute. I am currently editor of Art History (Association of Art Historians, 2012-2017)

• 2011-12 AHRC Research Fellowship, Translating Cultures Highlight: ‘Medial Translations in Renaissance Art’ (£106,717)
• 2009-10 Henry Moore Foundation Publication Grant, Bernini: Art and Theatre, Yale University Press (£5,000)
• Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Publication Grant, Bernini: Art and Theatre, Yale University Press (£2,200)
• Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Grant, ‘Recollecting Venus: Medial Translations in Renaissance Art’ (£2,200)
• 2008-09 Arts and Humanities Research Council of Britain Research Leave, ‘Bernini: Art and Theatre’ (£32,762.50)
• 2005-06 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, ‘Bernini: Art and Theatre’ (£23,323)
• 2000-01 Royal Society of Edinburgh Visiting Research Fellowship (£7,000)
• 1995-96 Getty Grant Program Post-Doctoral Fellowship ($33,500 US)
• 1992-94 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship
• 1990-2 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship

• Catherine Phillips, 'Diplomacy and Drawings: Count Charles Cobenzl (1712-70) and Collecting in 18th-century Belgium'

• Kaylin Weber, 'The Studio and Collection of the 'American Raphael' (Benjamin West)'

• The Artist at Work in Early Modern Italy (Senior Honours)
• Caravaggio: 'The Man Who Came to Destroy Painting' (Junior Honours)
• Research Forum (MLitt)

Administration

• Chair, Teaching Committee, History of Art
• Chair, Review of History of Art Departmental Programmes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment (DPTLA)  (2009-10)
• Director, Arts and Humanities Research (1998-03)

University Committee Service

• 2011      Chair, Art History Teaching Committee
                 Art History Research Committee
• 2009-10 Research Committee, Arts Faculty
                 Higher Degrees Committee, Arts Faculty
• 2003-08 Research Committee, Arts Faculty
                 Higher Degrees Committee, Arts Faculty
                 Chair, Postgraduate Studies Committee, Art History
                 Chair, Examinations Board, Art History
• 1998-2003 Graduate Studies Committee, Arts Faculty
                  Research Committee, Arts Faculty
                  Higher Degrees Committee, Arts Faculty
                  University Graduate Studies Committee

External Responsibilities

• 2012-2017 Editor of the Association of Art Historians' journal, Art History
• 2012-15 External Examiner, History of Art, University of Leicester
• 2011-17 Association of Art Historians’ Conference Advisory Group
• 2009 Henry Moore Foundation Post-doctoral Awards Committee
• 2006 onwards, Editorial Board, Immediations
• 2002-5 External Examiner, Art History, University of St Andrews
• 2000-4 VARIE Editorial Board
• 1996-2006 Getty Grant Program, Postdoctoral Fellowships Reviewer

Academic Distinctions and Awards

Conferences

Organisation

• 2010 ‘The Artist at Work in Early Modern Italy: Materials, Methods, Models, Mimesis’, Association of Art Historians Conference strand, Glasgow 2010, co-chaired with Jill Burke, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
• 2010 ‘Materiality and Spirituality’, Society for Renaissance Studies, York 2010, co-chaired with Helen Hills.
• 2009 'Bernini's Paragoni', National Gallery of Scotland, with Fabio Barry, Funded by the Henry Moore Foundation
• 2003 'Visual Knowledges', Insitute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, with John Frow
• 1997 'Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe 1550-1800', National Gallery, London, with Caroline Elam and Christopher Baker, funded by the Getty Provenance Index
• 1994 'Nicolas Poussin', Friends of the Courtauld Lecture Series, with Katie Scott

Invited Conference Papers / Seminar Lectures

• 2012 'Looking in the Mirror: The Toilet of Venus in Renaissance Art', Renaissance Society of America, Washington DC.
• 2010 'Ritual Form and Urban Space in Early Modern Rome', Early Modern Rome ca. 1341-1667, University of California in Rome, May 2010.
• 2010 'The Scenography of the Early Modern Urban Square' conference on Early Modern Rome 1341-1667, Istituto storico italiano per il medioevo, Rome.
• 2010 'Theatrical Baroques', keynote speaker with Josette Féral, conference on The Performative Turn: Recycling History, Department of Performance Studies, University of Krakow.
• 2010 'Plaster Casts and Portrait Busts: Bernini and the Death Mask', Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Plaster and plaster casts: materiality and practice, March 2010
• 2010 'Artists' books', Renaissance Society of America, Venice, April 2010.
• 2009 'Myth, Music, Metamorphoses: Bernini's Art of Sculpture', University of Oxford, Department of Art History
• 2009 'Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting', The Queen’s Gallery, Holyrood, study day to accompany The Art of Italy: Baroque exhibition.
• 2009 'Bernini’s Art of Sculpture', Bernini’s ‘Paragoni’, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, partnership conference between the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews and the National Galleries of Scotland and the Glasgow Museums Service, funded by the Henry Moore Foundation.
• 2008 'Le Bernin artiste de cour', Académie Francaise à Rome Villa Medici, Rome-Paris, 1640, organised by Marc Bayard
• 2008 'The Story of the Man who Whitened his Face: Berninin's Art of Sculpture', Zentral Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Zur Kunstliteratur, organised by Ulrich PfistererInvited Session Chair/Convenor
• 2008 'Le theatre et ses nouvelles perspectives', Rome-Paris 1640, Academie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, April 2008.
• 2007 ‘On Friendship: Padre Resta and the Arts of Collecting’ symposium hosted by the University of Palermo & the City Gallery of Modern Art to accompany the exhibition of Resta’s Palermo Codex in Palermo and at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, organized by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò.
• 2006 ‘The Performance of Practice: Bernini’s Bust of Louis XIV’, conference at the Swedish Institute, Rome, Performativity and Performance in Baroque Art, organised by Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlof and funded by the Swedish Academy.
• 2005 ‘’Pasquinade at Piazza Navona’, conference at the University of Lecce, Ex Marmore: Pasquini, Pasquinisti, Pasquinate nell’Europa Moderna organised by Christina Damianacki & Angelo Romano.
• 2004 ‘Bernini at the Villa Borghese’, departmental research seminar, University of Sussex History of Art
• 2003 ‘Pasquinade at Piazza Navona’, Association of Art Historians, London, session on ‘Articulate Objects: Sculpture and Performance’ chaired by Jon Wood.
• 2003 ‘Public Art and Popular Protest: Bernini at Piazza Navona’ conference at the University of Aberdeen on Picturing Poverty organized by Tom Nichols.
• 2003 ‘Caravaggio in History’, departmental research seminar, University of Edinburgh History of Art.
• 2002 ‘Speaking Statues: Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne’, AHRB Centre for the Material Renaissance workshop, University of Edinburgh Department of History.
• 2002 ‘Allegories of Eros: Caravaggio’s Masque’, departmental research seminar, University of St Andrews History of Art
• 1997 ‘Connoisseurship and the Collection of Drawings in Italy c. 1700’, National Gallery, London, conference on Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe, c. 1500-1750
• 1996 ‘Collecting as Canon Formation: Art History and the Collection of Drawings in Early Modern Italy’, College Art Association, Boston, session on collecting chaired by Andrew McLellan.
• 1996 ‘Collecting as Canon Formation: Art History and the Collection of Drawings in Early Modern Italy’, Conference Internationale d’Histoire de l’Art XXIX, Memory and Oblivion, session chaired by Neil McGregor.
• 1994 ‘Poussin and the Arts of History’, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
• 1994 ‘Poussin and the Arts of History’, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
• 1994 ‘Collecting as Cultural Mnemonic in Early Modern Europe’, Association of Art Historians, London.
• 1993 ‘Gift Exchange and Art Collecting in Early Modern Italy’ College Art Association, New York.
• 1993 ‘Collecting as Canon Formation in Early Modern Italy’, postgraduate research seminar, Department of Fine Art, Harvard University, Boston.

Keynote Lectures/ Guest Chair

• 2010 Session Chair, “Artists’ Books”, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Venice
• 2009 'Theatrical Baroques', keynote lecture with Josette Feral, The Performative Turn: Recycling History, University of Krakow,  November 2009.
• 2008 Session Chair, “Le theatre et ses nouvelles perspectives”, Rome-Paris 1640: Transferts culturels et renaissance d’une école artistique, international conference at the Académie de France, Rome