ART HISTORY FACULTY

 

Richard J. Tuttle
Office: 301 Woldenberg Art Bldg
Phone: (504) 314-2211
Email: rjtuttle@tulane.edu

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Professor Tuttle (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1976) is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art and architecture. While publishing on topics ranging from Rome to Mantua and Vicenza, his research has centered mainly on the north Italian city of Bologna. He has written about Giambologna and the patronage, urban planning and hydraulics of the city’s Fountain of Neptune. Notable are a series of studies on some leading architects who worked in Bologna, among them Bramante, Sebastiano Serlio, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Giulio Romano, Francesco Primaticcio, Galeazzo Alessi, and Palladio. An article on fortifications received the Founders’ Award from the Society of Architectural Historians (1982). His interests range from prints, drawings, medals and sculpture to urban planning, villa architecture, the classical orders and interior design. Ten of his studies are collected in Piazza Maggiore. Studi su Bologna nel Cinquecento (Venice 2001). An abiding interest in the late Renaissance architect and theorist Vignola is reflected in numerous scholarly papers, a biography for the Dictionary of Art (1996), and substantial portions of the monographic exhibition catalogue which he co-edited, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola. La vita e le opere (Milan 2002).

At Tulane Professor Tuttle teaches both parts of the introductory course (Art Survey I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages, Art Survey II: Renaissance to the Present) and upper level lecture classes on Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy, Sixteenth-Century Italian Art, and Italian Renaissance Architecture. He also offers monographic seminars on such topics as Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini, Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Italian villas and palaces, Renaissance portraiture, and art historical methods.

His current research projects include two studies on Vignola’s treatise, Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture, a history of the façade of San Petronio in Bologna, and a collaborative exhibition of a 16th-century perspective drawing at MIT in Cambridge. (September 29 - December 22, 2006).