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Associate Professor of Art History
M.A. (1985), M.Phil. (1986), Ph.D. (1995), Syracuse University
Biography
Jill Carrington holds a B.A. from Pomona College and both masters and doctoral degrees in art history from Syracuse University. Professor Carrington teaches courses in Greek and Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque art, and Art Appreciation. She is currently developing a special topics course on the Image of the Body in Art, which will explore both religious and secular modes of representation, while considering how social, political and gender perspectives shape the look of the body in various cultural traditions. Carrington’s research in late Medieval and Renaissance sculpture has earned her the following national and international awards: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant, 1987-88, 1995-96, 2000-2001; Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, 1986-87.
Teaching Philosophy
Teaching Art is like teaching anything else ... if your goal is to teach your students to see, that goal is not as lofty as it is challenging!
Research
My research has focused on late Medieval and Renaissance sculpture in the Veneto region of Italy, specifically forty-two figurated funerary monuments of the most respected occupational group in Padua, its university professors. I understand the tombs as reflecting two rivalries between professors inherent in the structure of university institutions: professors of law and professors of natural philosophy, medicine and languages; professors who came to Padua from elsewhere ("foreigners") and locals. At the same time, other features of the tombs indicate a corporate identity for the Paduan professors as a distinct professional elite.
Classes
ART280 Art Appreciation, ART281 Art History Survey I, ART 483 Greek and Roman Art, ART 485 Renaissance Art, ART 486 Baroque Art, ART 497 Art Topics and Graduate Art History courses