carmen bambach

Carmen C. BAMBACH (Yale University, BA, MA, MPhil, Phd) is Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers (Apr. 26, 2013). She is a leading, internationally recognized specialist of Italian Renaissance art, and most recently organized and curated the exhibition Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Nov. 6, 2017-Feb. 12, 2018), authoring the accompanying book as well. She was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in 2010-12 at CASVA (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C; and has held numerous fellowships and grants, including a Guggenheim (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation); twice, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; "Rome Prize" (Post-Doctoral Fellowship), American Academy in Rome; Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center. She is author of more than 70 scholarly articles, as well as the books entitled Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), awarded the "Premio Salimbeni 2000 per la Storia e Critica d’Arte" (Italy’s highest award for art books), and Una eredità difficile: i disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento (Florence: Giunti Publishing Group, 2009). Her 4 volume book, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, is in press, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2019. Besides Michelangelo, she has organized and co-organized exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, authoring also the accompanying catalogues, including The Drawings of Bronzino (2010); Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman (2003); Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance (2000); The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle (1997); An Italian Journey: Italian Drawings from Correggio to Tiepolo from the Tobey Collection (2010); From Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna (2009); Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800 (1996). She was assistant professor at Fordham University (1989-1995), and since has taught graduate seminars at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Columbia University.

• Academia.edu: Selected publications by Carmen Bambach
• MetPublications: Selected publications by Carmen Bambach