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Caroline A. Bruzelius
Anne M. Cogan Professor
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
112 East Duke Building
Campus Box 90764
Phone: (919) 684-6798
Fax: (919) 684-4398
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Curriculum Vitae
Overview
My research focuses on the impact of the Franciscans and Dominicans on the medieval city. It concerns how new religious practices (preaching outdoors, visiting laymen in domestic spaces,and burying laymen in churches affected church design and urban space. I am also deeply committed to exploring how new digital technologies can help us to communicate narratives about the built environment. I am committed to working with the "Wired!" group to integrate these new technologies with teaching.
Other
I have collaborated with Venetian Universities for many years, and this past year (2010) initiated a project called Visualizing Venice, which will be a team-based project to create an historical database and website on the city of Venice. i have also worked since 2001 as organizer and convener of Summer Humanities Seminars in Venice. Our most recent collaborative seminar was on "Patrons, Merchants, Artists and their Spaces," in May and June, 2009. Graduate Research Training Program 2008, "Venice: Church and City in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance" http://www.duke.edu/web/art/announce/ChurchAndCity_list.pdf
Specialties
- Medieval Architecture & Sculpture, History of France & Italy
- Architectural History
- New Technologies for Visualizing Historical Materials
Research Summary
medieval architecture and urbanism; medieval sculpture; digital scholarship; engaged with integrating visualization technolgies into the teaching of historical materials ("Wired!" course)
Research Description
Caroline Bruzelius received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her field of research is Gothic architecture and sculpture in France and Italy. Her books include The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343 (Yale University Press, 2004) and in Italian translation as Le Pietre di Napoli: le chiese del Regno di Napoli 1266-1343 (Rome, 2005); The Thirteenth Century Church at Saint Denis (Yale University Press, 1985), The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art at Duke University (1991) and The Architecture of the Cistercians in the Early Thirteenth Century. She was awarded the Duke Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985. From 1994 to 1998 she served as Director of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Caroline Bruzelius and Professor Donatella Calabi of Venice International University offer jointly a summer seminar in Venice for advanced graduate students in the Humanities. http://www.univiu.org/graduate/summerinstitute
Current Projects
the architecture of the Franciscans and Dominicans, death and burial in the medieval city, Founder of Visualizing Venice, an online database and visualization project, Founder of Wired! Digital Technologies and Art History
Areas of Interest
monastic architecture and planning
city planning
death and burial in the middle ages
mendicant architecture
digital technoloties
Education
- - PhD,
  - Yale University,
  - 1977
Awards, Honors and Distinctions
- - Krautheimer Professor,
  - The Hertziana Library, Rome,
  - September 2013-July 2014
- - Grant for supporting Summer Digital Training Workshop June 2013,
  - Gladys K. Delmas Foundation,
  - December 2012
- - Fellow,
  - American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
  - November, 2012
- - TRENT foundation grant for digital reconstruction of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples,
  - January 2012
- - Josiah H. Trent Foundation,
  - November 2009
- - Kress Foundation,
  - October, 2009
- - Discussion Group: New Technologies and the Visual Arts: Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age,
  - Franklin Humanities Center,
  - 2009-2010
- - Franklin Humanities Center Seminar,
  - 2009-2010
- - American Philosophical Society,
  - July, 2007
- - Millard Meiss Publication Grant,
  - College Art Association,
  - December, 2004
- - Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington DC, and the National Humanities Center,
  - December, 2003-2004
- - Fellow,
  - The Clark Art Institute,
  - January, 2003
- - Delmas Foundation,
  - December, 2001-2006
Selected Publications
- - The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343.
  - Yale University Press, London,
  - 2004.
  - (in Italian as: Le Pietre di Napoli, 2005).
- - with
  - Francesco Aceto, Paola Vitolo and Alessandra Periccioli-Saggese.
  - Campania Gotica.
  - Jaca Books, Milan,
  - 2010.
- - "The Architectural Context of Santa Maria Donna Regina."
  - The Church of Sta. Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples.
  - Ed. Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr.
  - Ashgate Press,
  - 2004.
  - 79-92.
  - (a joint volume on the convent church)
- - with
  - C. Goodson.
  - "The Abbey in the Middle Ages."
  - Walls and Memory. The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio) from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond.
  - Ed. Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline J. Goodson, Margaret L. Laird and Stephanie C. Leone.
  - Brepols,
  - 2005.
  - 72-113.
- - "'Le pietre sono parole.' Charles II d'Anjou, Filippo Minutolo e la Cathedrale Angevine de Naples."
  - Le monde des cathedrales, Paris Editions du Louvre
  - .
  - Musee du Louvre,
  - (2004)
  - .
- - Review of Daniel H. Weiss.
  - Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis.
  - Speculum
  - 76
  - (2001)
  - :
  - 813-5.
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PhD Students
- Joseph C. Williams
  - 2011 - present
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- Erica Sherman
  - 2009 - present
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- Alexandra Dodson
- Giulia Rossivairo (Rome and Portugal)
- Matthew H. Woodworth
  - 2005-Dec, 2011
- Aurelia E. D'Antonio
  - 2004 - present
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- Meagan Green
  - 2003 - May, 2010