Professor Coonin′s Vita (PDF)
1995 Ph.D., Rutgers University
1990 M.A., Syracuse University
1986 B.A., Oberlin College
- Art 166 - TOPICS IN STUDIO ART:PAINTING
- Art 231 - SURVEY:HIST OF WSTN ART I
- Art 299 - MEM COLLEGE OF ART: DRAWING
- Art 321 - ART/SPIRITUALTY IN MIDDLE AGES
- Art 323 - ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
- Art 326 - NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART
- Art 328 - BAROQUE:CARAVGGIO TO REMBRANDT
- Art 356 - MICHELANGELO
- Art 365 - TOPIC:ITALIAN PAINTING EXHIBIT
- Art 365 - TOPIC:VENICE ART& ARCHITECTURE
- Art 399 - PRE-HONORS TUTORIAL
- Art 450 - MUSEUM METHODS
- Art 460 - ART/ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP
- Art 461 - MUSEUM / GALLERY INTERNSHIP
- Art 485 - SENIOR SEMINAR
- Art 495 - HONORS TUTORIAL
Catalogue
Editor, Old Masters in Context: Romanino’s Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, Exhibition Catalogue, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, 2003.
Articles
“Dopo Lorenzo: On the Ghiberti Family Workshop,” Festschrift for Rab Hatfield, Syracuse University Press, 2007 (forthcoming).
“The Allure of Romanino’s Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine,” Old Masters in Context: Romanino’s Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, Exh. Cat., Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, 2003, 1-13.
“The Interaction of Painting and Sculpture in the Art of Perugino” Artibus et Historiae, 47, 2003, 103-120.
“New Documents Concerning Perugino′s Workshop in Florence,” Burlington Magazine, CXLI, 1999, 100-104.
“Picturing St Francis: An Introduction to His Image in Art,” The Brooks Museum Bulletin: Essays on the Collection, III, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, 1999.
“Desiderio da Settignano′s Tabernacle of the Sacrament,” by Andrew Butterfield and Caroline Elam, with a contribution from Victor Coonin, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 43, 2/3, 1999, 333-357.
“Sacred Art in Private Space: Examples from the Kress Collection,” The Brooks Museum Bulletin: Essays on the Collection, II, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, 1996, 19-23.
“New Documents Concerning Desiderio da Settignano and Annalena Malatesta,” Burlington Magazine, CXXXVII, 1995, 792-799.
"Portrait Busts of Children in Quattrocento Florence," Metropolitan Museum Journal, XXX, 1995, 61-71.
"An Interview with Donald Posner," Rutgers Art Review, 12/13, 1992, 89-102.
"Eleonora di Toledo and Bronzino," Syracuse University Florence Symposium Papers, II, 1989-90.
Encyclopedia and Catalogue Entries
“Angela Merici,” Great Lives from History: 1454-1600, Pasadena, CA, Salem Press, 2004.
“Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel,” Great Events from History: 1454-1600, Pasadena, CA, Salem Press, 2004.
“Relief with Putto,” Masterpieces of Renaissance Art: Eight Rediscoveries, exh. cat., Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York, 2001. Reprinted in Italian Sculpture from the Gothic to the Baroque, New York, 2002.
“Desiderio da Settignano” and “Desiderio da Settignano: Tomb of Carlo Marsuppini” in The Encyclopedia of Sculpture, Antonia Boström, ed., Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 2001 [In Press].
“Andrea Pisano,” “Giovanni Pisano,” “Nicola Pisano,” “Andrea della Robbia,” “Giovanni della Robbia,” “Luca della Robbia,” “Jacopo della Quercia,” “Lorenzo Ghiberti,” “Michelozzo di Bartolomeo,” “Benedetto da Maiano,” “Mino da Fiesole,” “Rossellino, Antonio and Bernardo,” “Desiderio da Settignano,” “Francesco di Giorgio Martini,” “Bertoldo di Giovanni,” “Lombardo Family,” “Daniele da Volterra,” Encyclopedia Americana, 2000.
Book Reviews
“Review of Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Michelangelo, introd. by David Hemsoll, London, 2006,” in Choice, 2006.
“Review of Ascanio Condivi, The Life of Michelangelo, introd. by Charles Robertson, London, 2006,” in Choice, 2006.
"Review of Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal, Building St. Peter’s by R.A. Scotti, Penguin Group, New York, 2006,” in Choice, 2006.
“Review of Lorenzo de’ Medici: Collector and Antiquarian, by Laurie Fusco and Gino Corti, Cambridge University Press, 2006” in Choice, 2006.
“Review of Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century: An Architectural and Social History, by Amanda Lillie, Cambridge University Press, 2005” in Choice, 2005.
Commissioned review of The Art of Renaissance Italy, 1400 to 1600, McGraw-Hill, publishers, 2005.
“Review of Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, by R. Ward Bissell, Andria Derstine, and Dwight Miller, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 2005,” in Choice, 2005.
“Review of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, an the Renaissance in Florence, ed. By David Franklin with Louis A. Waldman and Andrew Butterfield, Yale University Press, 2005,” in Choice, 2005.
“Review of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, edited by Marcia B. Hall, Cambridge University Press, 2005,” in Choice, 2005.
“Review of Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence, by Jill Burke, University Park, PA, 2004,” in Choice, 2004.
“Review of I, Michelangelo, by Georgia Illetschko, Prestel, New York, 2004,” in Choice, 2004.
“Review of Math and the Mona Lisa: the art and science of Leonardo da Vinci, by Atalay, Bülent, Smithsonian Books, Washington, 2004,” in Choice, 2004.
“Review of St. Mark′s: The Art and Architecture of Church and State in Venice, ed. by Ettore Vio. Riverside Book Company, 2003,” in Choice, 2004.
“Review of Large bronzes in the Renaissance, ed. by Peta Motture. National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2003,” in Choice, 2004.
2004, Commissioned review for Prentice Hall of James Snyder, Medieval Art, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989.
“Review of Reactions to the master: Michelangelo′s effect on art and artists in the sixteenth century, ed. by Francis Ames-Lewis and Paul Joannides. Ashgate, 2003,” in Choice, 2003.
“Review of Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David 1492-1504, by Anton Gill, Thomas Dunne Books, 2003,” in Choice, 2003.
“Review of Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist, by Giulia Bartrum with Günter Grass, Joseph L. Koerner and Ute Kuhlemann, Princeton, 2002,” in Choice, September, 2003.
“Review of Giovanni Ciappelli and Patricia Lee Rubin, editors, Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence, Cambridge, 2000,” in CAA.Reviews, 2001.
2000, Commissioned review for Prentice Hall of Greek Art and Archaeology, by J.G. Pedley, 2nd ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998.
“Review of Alison Luchs, Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice, 1490-1530, Cambridge, 1995,” in Renaissance Quarterly, LI, 1998, 622-624.