FACULTY


Vernon Hyde Minor
Research Professor
Art History: Art and Architecture of Early Modern Italy; Critical Theories in Art History

vminor@illinois.edu | CV

Teaching areas:

General surveys of Western art; critical theories of art history; European art, 1300-1800

Research areas:

The Roman Academy of the Arcadians; eighteenth-century Roman sculpture; historical and contemporary discourses on rhetoric, poetics, and hermeneutics and their pertinence to the history of art; Jesuits and Jansenists

Degrees:

B.A. Kent State University; MA/Ph.D. University of Kansas

Vernon Minor is a Research Professor and Research Scholar of Art History and co-editor of the book series Rome | Perspectives, published by Penn State Press. From 2004 - 2010 he served as the editor of The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. He also has been a Visiting Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Rome, was a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His area of research concentration is art and its critical fortunes in 17th- and 18th-century Rome. He taught for 30 years at the University of Colorado at Boulder before coming to the University of Illinois. He currently is at work on a book-length study with the working title Essays on Poetics, Rhetoric, and Hermeneutics in Baroque Art

Selected Work

  • The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste (Cambridge University Press)

  • Baroque & Rococo: Art & Culture (Calmann & King, Ltd; Prentice Hall), with a Chinese edition (Guangxi Normal University Press)

  • Passive Tranquillity: the Sculpture of Filippo della Valle (American Philosophical Society)

  • Art History's History (Prentice Hall/ Abrams) with editions in Japanese (Brücke), Chinese (Shanghai Century) and Persian (The Organization for Researching and Composing University)

Recent articles

  • " Arcadia e Bosco Parrasio," La Forma del pensiero: Filippo Juvarra (Campisano)

  • "Francisco de Goya y el gusto arcádico," Goya e Italia (Turner/ Fundación Goya en Aragón)

  • "Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Rom," Rom – Meisterwerke der Baukunst (Michael Imhof)

  • "La Capella Corsini: un Museo Neoclassico?" Dopo il Museo (Trauben)