Mary Quinlan, Ph.D.

Title:	Professor
Department:	Art History
Office Location:	Jack Arends Building 201C
Office Phone:	815-753-7850
Office Fax:	815-753-7701
Email:	mquinlan@niu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  William Rainey Harper Dissertation Prize, Division of Humanities
• M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
• B.A., St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
• Hunter College, New York, New York
  Completed one year toward a Master of Arts in Studio Art with Robert Morris and Tony Smith

Current Research

• History of vision and visual psychology
• Sixteenth-century European iconoclasms
• Basic chem-physics and mathematics of the Early Modern world, as these relate to artworks
• Intersections between science, religion and art
• Secular arts that incorporated scientific understandings of the universe
• Poetry and art interrelations

Teaching Emphasis

• Vision and visual psychology
• Study of Nature by artists and scientists
• Early Modern European intellectual history and art
• Italian Renaissance art, art practices, and audience reception
• Art and religious practices
• Art in war propaganda
• Research practices and publications in art history

Courses Taught

• ARTH 282 - Introduction to World Arts
• ARTH 330/530 - Studies in Early Modern European Art
  • Early Italian Renaissance Art
  • Sixteenth-Century Italian Art
  • European Art of the Sixteenth Century
• ARTH 331 Art and Science before 1800
• ARTH 486 Art Historical Methodology
• ARTH Topics and Seminars
  • Artists' uses of the history of vision
  • Art and iconoclasms
  • Images of war

Major Publications

Books

• Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013 (reissued in paperback 2016)
• In progress: Art, Optics, and Iconoclasms in Sixteenth Century Europe (recipient of National Science Foundation Scholar's Award, 2018)

Articles

• "Raphael's School of Athens: ‘Theologians reconciling philosophy and astrology'." Memoirs of the American Academy Rome, 2016.
• "The Sala dei Pontefici Vault: Raphael's Workshop and Napoleon's Troops." Memoirs of the American Academy Rome, 2004.
• "The Horoscope(s) for St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, 1506," Isis: the Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences, 2001.
• "Caprarola's Sala della Cosmografia." Renaissance Quarterly, 1997.
• "The Villa Farnesina, Time-telling Conventions and Renaissance Astrological Practice." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1995.
• "Blosius Palladius, Suburbanum Augustini Chisii. Introduction, Latin Text and English Translation," Humanistica Lovaniensia: The Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, 1990.
• "Aegidius Gallus, De viridario Augustini Chigii: Vera Libellus: Introduction, Latin Text and English Translation." Humanistica Lovaniensia: The Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, 1989.
• "A Proposal for the Foundation Date of the Villa Farnesina." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1986.
• "The Astrological Vault of the Villa Farnesina: Agostino Chigi's Rising Sign." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1984.