Ann van Dijk

Title:	Associate Professor
Department:	Art History
Office Location:	Jack Arends Building 203F
Office Fax:	815-753-7701
Email:	avandijk@niu.edu

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• M.A., Johns Hopkins University
• B.A., University of Toronto

Research Interests

• Rome during the medieval and early modern periods
• artistic relations between Rome and Byzantium
• use of art as a tool of papal self-representation
• perception of Early Christian and medieval art during the Counter Reformation
• depiction of nudity in early medieval art, especially in connection with images of the Crucifixion

Courses Taught

• ARTH 282 Introduction to World Art
• ARTH 320/520 Studies in Medieval Art
  • Early Christian and Early Byzantine Art: 330-843
  • Middle and Late Byzantine Art: ca. 843-1543
  • Early Medieval Art: ca. 500-1000
  • Romanesque and Gothic Art: ca. 1000-1400
• ARTH 452/652 Topics in Medieval Art
  • The Holy Image
  • The Art of Medieval Narrative
  • The Medieval Art of the Book

Major Publications

Book

• Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal (co-editor, with Gregor Kalas). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Book Chapters and Articles

• “Introduction: Revising the Narrative of Renewal for Late Antique and Medieval Rome” (co-author, with Gregor Kalas), in Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal, ed. G. Kalas and A. van Dijk (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021), 11-39.
• "The Veronica, the Vultus Christi, and the Veneration of Icons in Medieval Rome," in Old St. Peter's, Rome, ed. R. McKitterick et al. (Rome: British School at Rome; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 229-256.
• "Reading Medieval Mosaics in the Seventeenth Century: The Preserved Fragments from Pope John VII's Oratory in Old St. Peter's," Word & Image 22 (2006): 285-291.
• "Domus Sanctae Dei Genetricis Mariae: Art and Liturgy in the Oratory of Pope John VII," in Decorating the Lord's Table, ed. Erik Thunø and Søren Kaspersen (Copenhagen: Tusculanum Press of the University of Copenhagen, 2006), 13-42.
• "The Afterlife of an Early Medieval Chapel: Giovanni Battista Ricci and Perceptions of the Christian Past in Counter-Reformation Rome," Renaissance Studies 19 (2005): 686-698. Reprinted in The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, ed. R. Olson et al. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 106-118.
• "Types and Antitypes in S. Maria Antiqua: The Old Testament Imagery on the Transennae," in Santa Maria Antiqua al Foro Romano cento anni dopo. Atti del colloquio internazionale, Roma, 5-6 maggio 2000, ed. J. Osborne, J.R. Brandt, G. Morganti (Roma: Campisano, 2004), 113-127.
• "Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, and Constantinople: The Peter Cycle in the Oratory of Pope John VII (705-707)," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55 (2001): 305-28.
• "The Angelic Salutation in Early Byzantine and Medieval Annunciation Imagery," Art Bulletin 81 (1999): 420-36.