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

Richard Spear
Italian Baroque Art

Email: rspear@umd.edu

Telephone: (202) 362-2347

Richard E. Spear is a scholar of Italian Baroque art. His major books are Caravaggio and his Followers , Domenichino (Yale, 1982), and The "Divine" Guido. Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni (Yale, 1997). His current research focuses on economic art history and on the European paintings in the museum in Bombay, India . Previously, Spear taught at Oberlin College, where he also directed the Allen Art Museum (1972-83). He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin and has received many awards, including a Fulbright and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Humanities Center, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.