Professor Richard Spear
Italian Baroque Art

Art History & Archaeology
Mail: 1211-D Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335
Email: rspear@umd.edu
Telephone: (301) 405-1493
Fax: 202-362-5626
Publications

Richard Spear's primary field of research is seventeenth-century European art, especially Italian painting. His numerous publications have focused on Caravaggio and the school of the Carracci, in particular Domenichino, on whom he has written the standard catalogue raisonné (Yale, 1982), and recently Guido Reni: The "Divine" Guido" Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni (Yale, 1997).

Prior to his appointment at Maryland, Spear long was affiliated with Oberlin College; he also has served as distinguished visiting professor at George Washington University and the University of Florida. He has had extensive museum experience as well, directing the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College (1972-83), organizing for the Cleveland Museum of Art the international loan show Caravaggio and his Followers (1971), and serving as the principal author of the exhibition catalogue, Domenichino, Rome, 1996.

Spear was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin from 1985-88 and is the recipient of many awards, including a postdoctoral Fulbright-Hays to Italy, the Daria Borghese gold medal, and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art, the National Humanities Center, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations