image link to UIC College of Architecture and the Arts

Robert Munman

Department of Art History (M/C 201)
310A Henry Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
(312) 996-5325 FAX: (312) 413-2460
mail icon munman@uic.edu

 

Institutions Attended and Degrees

  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1958-1962
  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 1962-1968 (Dissertation: Venetian Renaissance Tomb Monuments)

Primary Fields of Study: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Italy

Secondary Fields of Study: Italian Baroque; Northern Renaissance

Academic Positions

University of California Riverside, Department of Art History

Lecturer,1968-70

University of Missouri,Columbia, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Assistant Professor, 1970-74; Curator, Post-Classical Art 1970-71

University of Illinois at Chicago, History of Architecture and Art Department (now Department of Art History

Assistant Professor, 1974–80 Associate Professor, 1980—

Department Chairperson, 1984–1990

Director of Graduate Studies, 1996–2000

Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2003-present  

Fellowships and Grants

Teaching Fellowship, Harvard University, 1965–6

Bernard Berenson Travel Grant, Harvard University, 1967 I

talian Institute of Culture Study Grant, 1967

Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant (not used due to other s), 1967

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Missouri, 1971

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Missouri, 1972

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Illinois, 1976

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Illinois, 1978

Grant-in-Aid, American Philosophical Society, 1983

National Endowment for the Humanities Travel-to-Collections Grant, 1987

Grant-in-Aid, American Philosophical Society, 1989

Teaching Awards

Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1979

Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998

University of Illinois Alumni Association Flame Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001

Publications

 Articles

“Two Lost Venetian Statues,” Burlington Magazine, June, 1970, 386f.

“A Greek Myth Through Renaissance Eyes,” Muse, 1971, 43–47

“The Monument to Vittore Cappello of Antonio Rizzo,” Burlington Magazine, 113, 1971, 138–145

“Antonio Rizzo’s Sarcophagus for Nicoló Tron: A Closer Look,” Art Bulletin, March, 1973, 77–85

“Giovanni Buora: the ‘Missing’ Sculpture,” Arte Veneta, 1976, 41–61

“The Lombardo Family and the Tomb of Giovanni Zanetti,” Art Bulletin, March, 1977, 28–38

“The Last Work of Antonio Rizzo,” Arte Lombarda, 1977, 88–99

“The Sculpture of Giovanni Buora: A Supplement,” Arte Veneta, 1979, 19–28

“The Evangelists from the Cathedral of Florence: A Renaissance Arrangement Recovered,” Art Bulletin, June, 1980, 207–17

“Urbano da Cortona: Corrections and Contributions,” in Verrocchio and Late Quattrocento Italian Sculpture (ed., Steven Bule, Alan Phipps Darr, Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi), Brigham Young University, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti. Series: Bibliotheca), Florence, 1992, 225–41

“I monumenti funebri rinascimentali—e gotici—di Jacopo della Quercia,” in Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell’arte, la cultura e la società del ’400, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, 15–16–17 Settembre 1994, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Lucca, 1995, 57–78

Two Entries: Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Vol. I, Early Works. A Corpus Compiled by the Midwest Art History Society, Burton L.Dunbar and Edward J.Olszewski, eds., University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 1996, pp.72–6; 95–101

“Two Drawings by Andrea Mantegna: A Simili/Modelli Problem Reconsidered,” Momus (Rivista di Studi Umanistici), V–VI, 1996, pp.5–25

“Tombs”, entry in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Charles Scribner’s Sons (in association with the Renaissance Society of America), New York, 1999, vol.6, 149–152

Fifty Entries: A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections; Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. Two Volumes, Edward J.Olszewski, ed., Harvey Miller Publishers, Brepols, n.v., Turnhout, Belgium, 2008

 Reviews

Debra Pincus, The Arco Foscari: The Building of a Triumphal Gateway in Fifteenth Century Venice (Garland Press, 1976), in Art Bulletin, LXI, December, 1979, 637–42

Anne Markham Schulz, Antonio Rizzo, Sculptor and Architect (Princeton University Press), 1983, in Renaissance Quarterly, XXXVII, 3, 1984, 466-71

Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, v.64, no.3, Sep., 2005, 374f  

Editorial Work 

Editor, L’architettura veneziana del primo rinascimento, by John McAndrew, Marsilio, Venice, 1983 (Second edition, in Italian, with extensive textural and bibliographic corrections, of McAndrew’s posthumously produced Venetian Architecture of the Early Renaissance, Cambridge, Mass. and London, MIT Press, 1980)

Associate Editor, A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections; Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. Two Volumes, Edward J.Olszewski, ed., Harvey Miller Publishers, Brepols, n.v., Turnhout, Belgium, 2008

Monograph

“Optical Corrections in the Sculpture of Donatello”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol.75, part 2, xi + 96pp, 1985 

Book 

Sienese Renaissance Tomb Monuments, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Vol. 205, Memoirs Series, 1993 

Work in Press 

A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Vol. III: Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings, Burton L. Dunbar, Edward J.Olszewski, and Robert Munman, eds., Harvey Miller, Pulbishers, Brepols, n.v., Turnhout, Belgium 

Selected Papers 

“The Monument of Vittore Cappello of Antonio Rizzo,” Conference of Art Historians of Southern California, University of California, Riverside, 1970

“Venetian Renaissance Mosaics”, Conference on Venetian Art, Johns Hopkins University, 1974

“Giovanni Buora: the ’Missing’ Sculpture,” College Art Association Conference, Chicago, 1976

“Double Images and Double Meanings in Rosso Fiorentino,” Central Renaissance Conference, St. Louis and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977

“Art Begets Art: the Vatican Collection” (public lecture), Italian Cultural Institute, 19

“The Evangelists from the Cathedral of Florence: A Renaissance Arrangement Recovered,” The Mid-West Art Historians’ Society Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1979

“Optical Corrections in the Reliefs of Donatello,” Mid-American College Art Association, Houston, Texas, 1980, and Mid-West Art Historians’ Society Conference, Notre Dame University, 1981

“Urbano da Cortona: Corrections and Contributions”—Symposium, “Studies in Late Quattrocento Sculpture, I”, Brigham Young University, April, 1988

“The Conflict Between Fame and Humility: Tomb Monuments of Renaissance Siena”—Symposium, “Studies in Late Quattrocento Sculpture, II,” Brigham Young University, April, 1992

“I monumenti funebri rinascimentali—e gotici—di Jacopo della Quercia”—Symposium, “Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell’arte, la cultura e la società del ’400,” Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, September, 1994

“Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael: the Portraits” (public lecture), The D’Arcy Gallery of Art, Loyola University, January, 1998

“Revisiting the Sistine Ceiling” (public lecture), The D’Arcy Gallery of Art, Loyola University, January, 2000

“Semi-Hidden Treasures in Milwaukee: Renaissance Drawings in the Milwaukee Art Museum,” Mid-west Art History Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, March, 2001  

Professional Organization Participation

Board Member, Mid-west Art History Society, 2001—2007

return to top up arrow image