The Ohio State University The Department of History of Art The College of the Arts

Christian Kleinbub—Assistant Professor

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Christian Kleinbub

Christian Kleinbub studies the art of the Italian Renaissance with particular focus on the work and legacy of Raphael and his milieu. His interests include perspective, art theory, and period approaches to vision and the visionary. In future projects, he plans to explore the rise of the modern conception of the artist and the impact of Renaissance science and philosophy on painting. He maintains a secondary interest in Pre-Columbian art, especially Andean.


Education

  • Ph. D., Columbia, 2006
  • BA, Yale, 1999

Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Bramante's Ruined Temple and the Dialectics of the Image," Renaissance Quarterly 63, (forthcoming, Summer 2010).
  • "At the Boundaries of Sight: The Italian Renaissance Cloud Putto," in Renaissance Theories of Vision, eds. John Hendrix and Charles Carman, Ashgate, (forthcoming).
  • "Raphael's Transfiguration as Visio-Devotional Program," The Art Bulletin, 90, 2008, 367–393.

    • Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

  • Vision and the Visionary in Raphael, Penn State University Press, (forthcoming late 2010).

    • Reviews

  • Nicole Dacos, "The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure," translated by Josephine Bacon, New York, Abbeville, 2008, The Burlington Magazine (forthcoming).

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Invited Lectures

  • "The Visionary Dimensions of Raphael's Transfiguration," Julius Fund Endowment Lecture in Renaissance Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, April 2009
  • "The Supernatural in Italian Renaissance Art," invited lecture presented at the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, April 16, 2008
  • "The Visual Displacement of Pagan Systems in Italian Renaissance Painting," at the national symposium Beholding Violence: A Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Representation and Culture, Bowling Green State University, February 28-March 1, 2008.
  • "The Supernatural in Italian Renaissance Art," Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference, Chicago, March 2008.
  • "The Association of Prophecy and Artistic Imagination in High Renaissance Art," at the International Symposium Art/Text/Imagination: The Unrepresentable in Early Modern Culture, Northwestern University, November 29–30, 2007.
  • "Raphael's Perspective and the Heritage of Urbino," presented at the International Scholarly Symposium "La Biblioteca Montefeltro e il Rinascimento di Urbino: Piero della Francesca, Raffaello e Castiglione" (The Montefeltro Library and the Renaissance in Urbino: Piero della Francesca, Raphael, and Castiglione), the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, June 9, 2007
  • "Illusion, Imagination, and Prophecy in Raphael's Later Works," Stanford University, Palo Alto, March 1, 2007
  • "Making the Invisible Visible: Raphael and the Development of Early Modern Visionary Imagery," at The Ohio State University, Columbus, March 2006.

    • Presentations

  • "The Senses in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture," session co-chair, College Art Association (CAA) annual conference, Chicago, February, 2010.
  • "Jacopo Bellini and the Drawing of Idolatry," lecture for session celebrating David Rosand's contributions to Venetian art at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Venice, Italy, 2010
  • "Raphael's Quos Ego and Its Humanist Audiences," presented at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Los Angeles, March, 2009.
  • "Centro/Periferia?: Provincialism in Italian Renaissance Art," respondent for panel, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Los Angeles, March, 2009.
  • "Raphael's Transfiguration as Visio-Devotional Program," presented at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference, Chicago, March, 2008.
  • "Bramante's Ruined Temple: Resistance to Iconcity in the Renaissance," lecture presented at the symposium, "Beholding Violence: A Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Representation and Culture," at Bowling Green State University, February 29, 2008.
  • "The Divorce of Optics and Perspective in High Renaissance Painting," presented at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference, Miami, March 22, 2007.
  • "Raphael's Reform of the Devotional Image: The Case of the Transfiguration," presented at the Renaissance Society of Southern California Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, March 3, 2007.
  • "Blindness and Enlightenment in Raphael's Sistine Tapestries," presented at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference, San Francisco, March, 2006.
  • "Raphael's Visual Universe: Metaphors of Vision in the Stanza d'Eliodoro," presented at the Renaissance Conference of Southern California/South Central Renaissance Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, March 4, 2005.
  • "Vision and Incarnation in Leonardo and Raphael," presented at the Columbia Seminar of Renaissance and Baroque Studies, New York, November 8, 2004.
  • "Raphael's Transfiguration and the Visionary Altarpiece," presented at the Frick Symposium, New York, April 16, 2004.
  • "Raphael's Transfiguration and the Visionary," presented at the Columbia Art History Department Graduate Student Symposium, New York, December, 2003.