Adrian S. Hoch
Curriculum Vitae
Office:
The Umbra Institute
Via Bartolo, 16
06123 Perugia, Italy
Home:
Via Baracca 1/N
50127 Florence, Italy
Office Tel.: +39. 075-573-3905
Office Fax: +39. 075-573-7033
Email: [email protected]
Citizenship: USA
Education
Ph.D.
December 1983
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Department of the History of Art
Dissertation topic: “Simone Martini’s St. Martin Chapel in the Lower Basilica of
San Francisco, Assisi”
(advisor: Paul F. Watson)
M.A.
May 1978
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Department of the History of Art
Thesis: “The Influence of Roman Coins upon Sienese and Florentine Fourteenth
Century Painting: Portraiture, Gesture and Allegorical Personifications”
(advisor: Creighton E. Gilbert)
BA.
May 1976
New York University, New York City, NY
Department of the History of Art (Fine Arts)
Teaching Experience
Professor
The Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy
From Fall 2008
(lecture courses: Survey of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art 1300-1580,
Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Genius and Scientist, Saints, Sinners and Harlots:
Medieval Women in Central Italy, and Special topic: Michelangelo)
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Senior Lecturer
Summer 2011
International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Montecastello di Vibio,
Umbria, Italy
(series of lectures on Ancient, Renaissance and Baroque Italian Art)
Adjunct Professor
Fall 2005-Spring 2006
New York University in Florence, Italy
(seminar: Holy People and Holy Places of Medieval Italy)
Spring 1999-Spring 2005
(lecture courses: Early Renaissance Art from Giotto to Michelangelo and
Florentine High Renaissance, Mannerism and Medici Court Art from
Michelangelo to Giambologna)
Winter 2003- Winter 2006
Participation in Dean’s Freshmen and Sophomore Honors Program- College of
Art and Sciences
Senior Lecturer
Summer 2004-Summer 2005
Cambridge University (England) in conjunction with the University of California
at Berkeley Study Abroad Program in Florence
(lecture course: Italian Renaissance Art)
Fellow
Spring 1999-Summer 2002
The British Institute of Florence, Italy
Acting Head of Art
History Dept. and Fellow
Fall 1996-Fall1998
Lecturer
Spring 1993-Fall 1996
(lecture courses: Dawn of the Renaissance, Giotto and his Followers, Florentine
Renaissance Art, Art in Florence, Florentine Sculptors, Architecture in Florence,
Renaissance Masters, Botticelli, Art and the Medici, Michelangelo and his
Influence, Michelangelo, High Renaissance Art and Beyond, Villas and Gardens of
Florence, Tuscan Cities, Art in Siena (taught in Siena, Italy), Art and History in
Siena and Western Tuscany (taught in Massa Marittima, Italy)
Fall 2001
In conjunction with the University of Bristol (England) Study Abroad Program in
Florence
(seminar: Art in the Italian Renaissance Courts)
Visiting Assistant Professor Fall 1991-Spring 1992
Florida State University Study Center, Florence, Italy
(lecture courses: Art, Architecture and Artistic Vision, Early Renaissance Art,
Later Italian Renaissance Art)
Visiting Assistant Professor Fall 1990
University of Georgia, Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy
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(lecture courses: Guided Foreign Study of Art History; seminar: Subject and
Meaning in Italian Gothic Wall Painting)
Visiting Assistant Professor Fall 1986-Summer 1990
Florida State University, Dept. of Art History, Tallahassee, FL
(lecture courses: Survey of Western Art History, Early Italian Renaissance Art,
Later Italian Renaissance Art; graduate seminars: Problems in Sienese Trecento
Painting, Simone Martini, Giotto and Late Gothic Art in Florence, Michelangelo)
Visiting Instructor
Winter 1984-Fall 1984
University of California, Dept. of Art, Davis, CA
(lecture courses: Introduction to Art, Ancient Art, Early Italian Renaissance Art,
Later Italian Renaissance Art, Impressionism)
Instructor
Fall 1982-Fall 1983
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
(lecture course: Survey of Western Art History)
Teaching Fellow
Spring 1982-Summer 1983; Spring 1979-Spring 1983
University of Pennsylvania, PA
(lecture course: Survey of Western Art History)
Museum Experience
Curatorial Assistant
Spring 1985-Spring 1986
J. Paul Getty Museum, Paintings Dept., Malibu, CA
University Exchange Lecturer
Spring 1983-Fall 1983; Spring 1980
In Medieval and Renaissance Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Research Assistant
Fall 1981
Librarian Assistant
Fall 1976-Spring 1978
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Publications
“Notable Changes in Medieval Images of ‘Saint’ Humility after CounterReformation Documents”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 75, no. 1 (2012)
“New Notices from the Florentine Baroque on the Trecento Chiarito Tabernacle”,
Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol. 54, no 2 (2010-2012)
“Duecento Fertility Images for Females at Massa Marittima’s Public Fountain”,
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 69, no. 4 (2006)
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“The Art of Alessandro Botticelli through the Eyes of Victorian Aesthetes” in John
E. Law and Lene Ostermark-Johansen, editors, Victorian and Edwardian
Responses to the Italian Renaissance (Ashgate, Hants, 2005)
“The ‘Passion’ cycle: images to contemplate and imitate amid Clarissan clausura”
in Janis Elliot and Cordelia Warr, editors, The Church of Santa Maria Donna
Regina Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples (Ashgate,
Hants, 2004)
“Fictive Frescoes with a French Connection”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol.
67, no. 1 (2004)
“Book review; Diana Norman, Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late
Medieval City State (New Haven, 1999), Speculum- A Journal of Medieval Studies,
vol. 77, no. 4 (2002)
“A Medieval Franciscan Image of a ‘White Marriage’ Reconsidered”, Arte
Cristiana, ns.vol. 88, fasc. 801 (2000)
“Pictures of Penitence from a Trecento Neapolitan Nunnery”, Zeitschrift für
Kunstgeschichte, vol. 61, no. 2 (1998)
“Sovereignty and Closure in Trecento Naples: Images of Queen Sancia alias
‘Sister Clare’”, Arte Medievale, 2nd series, vol. 10, no. 1 (1996)
“A Proposal for the ‘lost’ Clarissite Church of San Giovanni a Nido in Naples”, Arte
Cristiana, ns., vol.84, fasc. 776 (1996)
“Assisi: San Francesco: Painting”, The Dictionary of Art, vol. 20, (London, 1996)
“Isaac Master”, The Dictionary of Art, vol. 2 (London, 1996)
“Master of the St. Francis Legend”, The Dictionary of Art, vol. 20 (London, 1996)
“The Franciscan Provenance of Simone Martini’s Angevin St. Louis in Naples”,
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 58, no. 1 (1995)
Letters to the Editor (in response to Robert Gibbs and Joseph Polzer), Art History,
vol. 17, no. 1 (1994)
“Beata Stirps, Royal Patronage and the Identification of the Sainted Rulers in the
St. Elizabeth Chapel at Assisi”, Art History, vol. 15, no.3 (1992)
“The dedication of the St. Elizabeth altar at Assisi”, The Burlington Magazine, vol.
133, no. 1054 (January 1991)
Book review; Paul Hills, The Light of Early Renaissance Painting (New Haven,
1987), Medevalia et Humanistica, ns. No. 17 (1991)
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Book review; Rona Goffen, Spirituality in Conflict. Saint Francis and Giotto’s Bardi
Chapel (University Park and London, 1998), Southeastern College Art Conference
Review, vol. 11, no. 5 (1990)
“St. Martin of Tours: His Transformation into a Chivalric Hero and Franciscan
Ideal”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 50, no. 4 (1987)
“The Antique Origins of an Emperor by Simone Martini”, Paragone, ns. arte, vol.
443, no. 1 (1987)
Letter to the Editor (in response to Gordon Moran and Michael Mallory), Gesta,
vol. 26, no. 1 (1987)
“The Identity of a saint in the Chapel of St. Martin at Assisi”, Arte Cristiana, ns.,
vol. 74, fasc. 3 (1986)
“A New Document for Simone Martini’s Chapel of St. Martin at Assisi”, Gesta, vol.
24, no. 2 (1985)
Catalogue entries in John Hutton and Sandra Gilbert, eds., Christian Images in
French Nineteenth Century Art (The Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1980)
“Allegorical Personifications in Rubens’ Title pages” and catalogue entries in
Julius S. Held, ed., Rubens and the Book (Williamstown, MA, 1977)
In Preparation
“Beyond Spiritual Maternity: An Addendum to the Iconography of Sancia of
Majorca”, in Francesco Aceto, editor, Committenza artistica, vita religiosa e
progettualità politica nella Napoli di Roberto d’Angiò e Sancia di Maiorca. La
Chiesa di Santa Chiara
“Holy People in Angevin Provence and their Lost Monuments for the Franciscans
at Marseille” (for the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte)
“Blessed Saint Douceline and the Queen: Sancia of Majorca’s Patronage of the
Ladies of Roubaud”
“The Poor Clares of Aix-en-Provence and their Italian Gothic Panel Paintings”
Conference Papers/Public Lectures
“La Memoria del Cardinale Gentile Partino da Montefiore nella Basilica di San
Francesco ad Assisi” (“The Commemoration of Cardinal Gentile Partino da
Montefiore in San Francesco at Assisi”)
Giornata di Studio (Day of Lectures) in honor of the Seven hundredth
Anniversary of the death of Cardinal Gentile Partino, Comune of Montefiore
dell’Aso (Marches, Italy)
Winter 2012
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“Sancia di Maiorca: Iconografia e Istanze Religiose Francescane a Napoli e in
Provenza” (The Iconography of Sancia of Majorca within Franciscan Naples and
Provence”) Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” (University of Naples
“Fredrick II”) Naples, Italy
Spring 2011
“The King’s Sainted Brother: Louis of Anjou’s Translation amid the Franciscans at
Marseille” International Medieval Society, Paris, France
Summer 2010
“Douceline of Digne’s Vision of the Man of Sorrows”
International Medieval Society, Paris, France
Summer 2008
“How Very Botticellian”: The Art of Alessandro Botticelli through the Eyes of
Victorian Aesthetes
Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy
Spring 2000
“Pictures of Penitence from a Neapolitan Nunnery”, European Paintings on
Fabric Supports in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
Spring 1998
“The Queens and the Cloister: Angevin Patronage of Franciscan Art”
The British Institute of Florence, Italy
Spring 1993
“Sovereignty and Closure during the Trecento: Queen Sancia’s Patronage of the
Poor Clares in Naples”
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
Spring 1993
“The Art of Simone Martini: Problems in Attribution and Style”
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
Winter 1992
“Mary of Hungary, Franciscan Piety, and the Nuns’ Choir of Santa Maria Donna
Regina at Naples”
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
Spring 1991
“The Chiarito Tabernacle: A Study of Trecento Vision Imagery”
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazzo, MI
Spring 1998
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“St. Martin of Tours: His Transformation into a Chivalric Hero and Franciscan
Ideal”
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
Spring 1987
“Pacino di Bonguida’s Chiarito Tabernacle and Art Patronage in Mid-Fourteenth
Century Florence”
Medieval Society, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 1985
“Robert of Anjou and Simone Martini: The State of Research”
College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
Spring 1983
Fellowships and Awards
First Alternate Fulbright Faculty Travel Grant- Italy
1988-89
NEH Summer Institute in Italian Archival Science, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
1988
Italian Studies Center Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania/ Università degli
Studi dell’Aquila degli Abruzzi
1980-81
Kress Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Art History
1980-81
First Alternate Fulbright Doctoral Grant- Italy
1980-81
Williams College Fellowship
1976-78
Washington Square University College Scholarship, New York University
1974-76
Languages
French, German, Italian, and Latin
Membership in Professional Organizations
International Medieval Society, Paris, France
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