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Edward J. Olszewski

EDUCATION:

  • Ph. D. University of Minnesota, August 1974
  • M. A. University of Minnesota, March 1970
  • Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Illinois, October 1964
  • B.S. University of Detroit, June 1958

BOOKS:

  • Drawings in Midwestern Collections. I. Early Drawings, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press (Nominated for: Charles Rufus Morey Prize for Book of the Year in Art History, College Art Association), 1996.

  • The Draftsman's Eye , Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1981.

  • Giovanni Battista Armenini, On the True Precepts of the Art of Painting , New York: Burt Franklin Publishers, 1977.

SELECTED ARTICLES:

  • "Decorating the Palace: Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667- 1740) in the Cancelleria," Ambiente Barocco, Life and the the Arts in the Baroque Palaces in Rome, New York, Bard Graduate College, 1999, pp. 92-111.

  • "Leonardo Cungi," Dictionary of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art , ed., J. Turner, 2 vols., London, Macmillan, "Santa, Casa, Loreto," ibid., II, pp. 000-000; "Parrasio Micheli," ibid., I, pp. 000 (in press).

  • "The Painters in Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni's Court of the Cancelleria, 1689-1740," Römischen Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 32 (1997), 000-000 (in press).

  • "Satire and Scatology during the Papacy of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni," SOURCE:Notes in the History of Art , XVII/2, Winter 1998, 26-32.

  • "Prophecy and Prolepsis in Donatello's Marble David," artibus et historiae , XXII/3, Spring 1998, 63-79.

  • "Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni's Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII. History and Iconography from the Archival Records," Storia dell'arte , 91 (January 1997), 367-400.

  • "Central and Lateral Landscapes in Italian Renaissance Altarpanels," SOURCE: Notes in the History of Art , XVII/3, Spring 1998, 29-35.

  • "Leonardo Cungi," Dictionary of Art , J. Turner, ed., 34 vols., London, Macmillan, 1996, VIII, p. 268; "Santa, Casa, Loreto," ibid., XIX, pp. 687-688; "Parrasio Micheli," ibid., XXI, pp. 462; "Carlo Rainaldi," ibid., XXV, pp. 860-863; "Virgilio Spada," ibid., XXIX, pp. 250-251; "Alessandro Specchi," ibid., XXIX, p. 373-374 (Winner of Apollo award for best book in art history for 1996).

  • "A Design for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling," Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English II. The Sistine Chapel , 5 vols., W. Wallace, ed., New York, Garland, 1995, II, pp. 154-168.

  • "Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini," International Dictionary of Architecture and Architects , R. van Vynckt, ed., 2 vols., London: St. James Press, 1993, vol. I, pp. 76-80; "Pirro Ligorio," Ibid., I, pp. 521-522; "Baldassare Peruzzi," Ibid., I, pp. 666-667; "Giulio Romano," Ibid., I, pp. 319-320; "Matthia De' Rossi," Ibid., I, pp. 756-757; "Carlo Fontana," Ibid., I, pp. 267-270; "Palazzo Chigi, Rome," Ibid., II, pp. 619-621; "Palazzo del Te, Mantua," Ibid., II, pp. 574-575; "Villa Farnesina, Rome," Ibid., II, pp. 674-677.

  • "Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) in America," Journal of the History of Collections , 1 (1989), 33-58.

  • "Giovanni Martino Frugone, marble merchant, and a contract for the apostle statues in the Nave of St. John Lateran," The Burlington Magazine , 128 (September 1986), 659-666.

  • "Distortions, Shadows, and Conventions in Sixteenth Century Italian Art," artibus et historiae , 11 (1985), 101-124.

  • "The Subject of Rosso's Moses Painting in the Uffizi," Source Notes in the History of Art , 4 (Fall 1984), 1-6.

  • "The New World of Pier Leone Ghezzi," Art Journal , 43 (Winter 1983), 325-330.

  • "New Lodovico Cardi Drawings in Cleveland," Paragone , 34 (1983), 42-48.

  • "Paradisi and Ottoboni," Apollo , 117 (January 1983), 76.

  • "The Tapestry Collection of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni," Apollo , 116 (August 1982), 103-111.

  • "Renaissance Naturalism: The Rare and the Ephemeral in Art and Nature," Source Notes in the History of Art , I (Winter 1982), 23-28.

  • "Italian Drawings in Cleveland," The Connoisseur , 206 (April 1981), 284-288.

  • "Degas's Angel of the Apocalypse : An Early Drawing," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art , 67 (October 1980), 241-255 (with Carol A. Nathanson).

  • "A Rediscovered Holy Family by Francesco Trevisani," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art , 64 (1977), 25-39.

  • "A Design for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling," Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art , 63 (1976), 12-26.