Renée Ater, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. University of Maryland
American Art

Anthony Colantuono, Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University
Seventeenth-Century Italian, French, and Spanish Art

Meredith J. Gill, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. Princeton University
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Art

June Hargrove, Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture

Shannen Hill, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
African Art

Jason Kuo, Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Chinese Art

Steven A. Mansbach, Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Twentieth-Century Art

William L. Pressly, Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art

Joshua A. Shannon, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Contemporary Art History & Theory

Yui Suzuki, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Japanese Art

Marjorie S. Venit, Professor and Chair and Scheduling Officer
Ph.D. New York University
Ancient Mediterranean Art History & Archaeology

Alicia Volk, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Yale University
Japanese Art

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

Distinguished Affiliates

Franklin Kelly
Ph.D. University of Delaware
American Art

Richard Spear
Ph.D. Princeton University
Italian Baroque Art

Emeriti and Adjunct Faculty

Meredith J. Gill
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Art

Office: 4218 Art-Sociology Building

Email: mgill@umd.edu

Telephone: (301) 405- 1491

Meredith J. Gill is a historian of Italian art and architecture from the late medieval era through the sixteenth century. Her scholarly interests focus on the intersections of art and spirituality, with an emphasis on theology and philosophy.

She is the author of Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Cambridge University Press), and she has contributed chapters to Rome: Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance (ed. Marcia Hall) (Cambridge University Press) and to The Renaissance World (ed. John Jeffries Martin) (Routledge). Among forthcoming essays is her study of Guillaume d'Estouteville in Possessions: Renaissance Cardinals--Rights and Rituals (eds. Mary Hollingsworth and Carol M. Richardson) (Penn State University Press) and her chapter on the humanist, Lorenzo Valla, and the idea of forgery in Revisioning High Renaissance Rome (ed. Jill Burke). She is completing Flights of Angels: The Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy . She has presented aspects of this project at recent conferences and invited talks.

In her teaching, Professor Gill also concentrates on interdisciplinary themes that address social history, the history of science, and gender in the visual arts. Her articles (appearing in Storia dell'Arte , Renaissance Quarterly , and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte ) have focused on French and Spanish patronage in Quattrocento Rome, and on architecture, church decoration, and funerary sculpture. She contributed articles to the Festschrifts of Richard Krautheimer and John Shearman, and was a co-editor of both volumes.

She has been a Fellow at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and the National Humanities Center , and has been the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Gill is a member of the advisory board for Renaissance Studies .